Parra, Dafne Karina | Spanish & Portuguese

dafneparra@arizona.edu

Parra, Dafne Karina

Graduate Associate

Hi! I'm Dafne Parra, a first-year PhD student in Spanish. My previous research has focused on fantasy literature from the last century and its connections to gender and cultural studies. I have been a university professor for seven years, teaching writing, argumentation, and communication. I truly love my job and enjoy guiding my students to develop their critical thinking and expressive skills.

I'm from Sonora, México, a beautiful desert where the mountains meet the sea. I'm proud of my background, as it inspires both my teaching and my research. Outside of academia, I enjoy exploring natural sites, tending my garden, spending time with my pets, and discovering new flavors. I'm passionate about literature, videogames, and series; anything with a good story to tell.

Currently Teaching

SPAN 201 – Third Semester Spanish

Continuation of Spanish 101 and 102 or by placement exam. As the first semester of the second year Spanish, this course focuses on a short review of the materials studied in the first year courses. It expands on those points with a more in-depth study of the Spanish language and culture. Content-based approach integrates grammar and culture in a functional use through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course further develops grammatical accuracy in the use of the simple tenses: present, future, and conditional and of particular importance is the perfection of the use of the past tense: preterit and imperfect. Compound tenses such as the present perfect, past perfect are also developed in this course. Students gain the ability during this course to deal with more complex and abstract situations in the foreign language. Language use encouraged by way of communicative activities rather than a sequence of linguistics units. Audio, video, and computer materials incorporated.

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