Deemer Perez, Ellen Catherine | Spanish & Portuguese

edeemer@arizona.edu

Phone

520-626-0788

Office

Modern Languages 550

Office Hours

Friday 1-2 pm

Deemer Perez, Ellen Catherine

Graduate Associate

Ellen is a second year PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese studying Hispanic Linguistics. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Linguistics from Purdue University and a Master of Arts in Spanish with a concentration in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona. Her research interests are phonetics and laboratory phonology, second language phonological processing, Spanish as a heritage language, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.

Currently Teaching

SPAN 202 – Fourth Semester Spanish

Continuation of Spanish 101, 102, and 201 or by placement exam. As the second semester of the second year Spanish, this course is designed to provide insight into the literature and culture of the Spanish speaking countries. Themes are developed by content-based cultural activities, which provide awareness in the Hispanic culture, and encourage students to formulate opinions on a variety of contemporary issues through authentic readings, discussions and writing. This course reviews the grammatical concepts in a more sophisticated way and analyses more complex syntactic structures considered within a functional whole such as the subjunctive moods, etc. The teaching approach integrates grammar and culture in a functional use through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Classroom activities stress communication across the four skills with a strong aural, oral and written component. Audio, video, and computer materials incorporated.

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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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