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brandonjmartinez@arizona.edu
Office
ML 209
Office Hours
Tuesday, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, via Zoom (https://arizona.zoom.us/j/6399446015)
Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, South Rec Think Tank
Martínez, Brandon Joseph
Graduate Associate

Brandon J. Martínez está en su segundo año del doctorado en Lingüística Hispánica. Originario de Nuevo México, se graduó de la Universidad de Nuevo México en 2021 con una maestría en Lingüística, y también en 2017 con una licenciatura en Lingüística e Idiomas, con énfasis en español y chino mandarín. Sus intereses de investigación son sociolingüística variacionista, sociofonética, antropología lingüística, bilingüismo, hablantes de herencia, translanguaging, y la teoría basada en el uso, con un enfoque en el español tradicional nuevomexicano y otras zonas de la frontera.

Brandon J. Martínez is a second year doctoral student in Spanish Linguistics. A native New Mexican, he graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2021 with an MA in Linguistics, and in 2017 with a BA in Linguistics & Languages, with an emphasis on Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. His research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism, heritage speakers, translanguaging, and usage-based theory, with a focus on Traditional New Mexican Spanish and other Borderlands dialects.

Currently Teaching

SPAN 203 – Writing and Oral Skills for the Heritage Learner of Spanish

Designed for students who learned Spanish in a home or community environment. Focuses mainly on written and oral development but reading and listening skills are also practiced in a dynamic cultural context. Grammar and spelling issues problematic to students are also covered. This course fulfills the University's foreign language requirement.

Designed for students who learned Spanish in a home or community environment. Focuses mainly on written and oral development but reading and listening skills are also practiced in a dynamic cultural context. Grammar and spelling issues problematic to students are also covered. This course fulfills the University's foreign language requirement.