Escalera Lopez, Helena | Spanish & Portuguese

helenae@arizona.edu

Phone

520-626-0788

Office

Modern Languages 550

Office Hours

Mondays and Fridays 12-1 pm
Think tank: Wednesdays 12-1 pm (BASC building)

Escalera Lopez, Helena

Graduate Associate

Helena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics with a minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT). She is interested in L2 and bilingual speech perception and processing, phonological acquisition, and second and heritage language teaching.

Currently Teaching

SPAN 343 – Spanish Phonetics for the Heritage Speaker

Introduces learners to Spanish phonology and phonetics. Students learn about the differences between spoken and written language as the basis to advance their Spanish proficiency. It also focuses on exposing students to the different varieties of the Spanish-speaking world.

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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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