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carmenking@arizona.edu
Office
Modern Languages 528
Office Hours
Via Zoom by appointment., arizona.zoom.us/my/drkingramirez
King Ramirez, Carmen
Associate Professor

Dr. King Ramírez is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. She teaches a variety of courses related to the use of Spanish in community and professional contexts. From 2015-2023, she worked as the founding director of the online Spanish program at the University. Dr. King Ramirez conducts research related to online teacher education, international academic collaborations, and world languages for specific purposes (WLSP).  She collaborates with several Mexican universities including the Universidad de Sonora, CETYS Universidad, and Universidad de Monterrey. In 2022, she was selected as a U.S.-Mexico Fulbright Scholar.

Selected Publications (full list available: www.carmenkingramirez.com)
- King Ramírez, C. (2022). 
Virtual exchange in Latin America: a profile of faculty and staff participants. Journal of Virtual Exchange5, 105-132.

-King Ramírez, C., Lafford, B. & Wermers, J. (2021). Online World Language Instruction: Training and Evaluation.  Georgetown University Press.

-King Ramírez, C & Lafford, B. (2018). Transferable Skills for the 21st Century:  Preparing Students for the Workplace through World Languages for Specific Purposes. Sabio Books. 

King-Ramírez, C. (2020). The implications of academic culture in collaborative online international learning (COIL): Differences between Mexican and U.S. Students’           Perspectives. Foreign Language Annals.

-King de Ramírez, C. (2019). Global Citizenship Education Through Collaborative Online International Learning in the Borderlands: A Case of the Arizona–Sonora              Megaregion.  Journal of Studies in International Education. 1-18.

-King de Ramírez, C. (2017). The Importance of Socialization among International Volunteers: A Case of Border NGOs. Intercultural Communication Journal. 1-17.

-King de Ramírez, C. (2017).  Spanish for the professions: Heritage learners’ experiences in community internships. In M. Long (Ed), Languages for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development. (pp. 55-72). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.  

-King de Ramírez, C. & Lafford, B.  (2017). Mentors’ Perspectives on Professional Internships: Rewards, Challenges and Future Directions. In M. Bloom & C. Gascoigne (Eds), Creating experiential learning opportunities for language learners. (pp. 135-159). Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters.

Selected Awards

  •  U.S.- Mexico Fulbright Scholar (2022)
  • Mellon-Fronteridades Faculty Fellowship program (2021)
  • Arizona-Sonora Interuniversity Research Collaboration Seed Grant. (2019)
  • Consortium on North American Higher Education Collaboration (Conahec) Faculty Exchange (2018)

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Currently Teaching

SPAN 473 – Spanish for the Classroom Teacher of Spanish

Practical Spanish for the elementary and secondary school subject-matter teacher who uses Spanish as the medium of instruction.

SPAN 581C – Online Course Design for Advanced Language Courses

Online Course Design for Advanced Language Courses is a course that provides language instructors with a foundation in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) theory and best practices for online language course design. Through this course, students will become familiar with publications on digital pedagogy theory, be introduced to Quality Matters (QM) online design standards, and create online shells for advanced language courses, including the fields of linguistics and literature. The course will provide students with the opportunity to experience the digital classroom and, based on that experience, evaluate crucial content/design components of online FL courses. The capstone project requires each student to create and present their own online Spanish language course that complies with the QM rubric.

SPAN 330 – Intermediate Conversation

SPAN 457 – Applied Linguistics

Application of linguistic theory to issues of Spanish language instruction; theories of language acquisition and language teaching methodology.