Escalera Lopez, Helena | Spanish & Portuguese

helenae@arizona.edu

Phone

520-626-0788

Office

Modern Languages 207

Office Hours

Tuesdays 2-3 pm and by appointment.

Escalera Lopez, Helena

Graduate Associate

Helena is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics with a minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her research centers on experimental and laboratory phonology, with a focus on the effects of word structure in the production, perception, and processing of speech, as well as on Spanish lexical stress perceptual training for L2 learners. Another area of interest is heritage language teaching, where Helena is dedicated to integrating linguistic content courses with the Critical Language Awareness framework, striving to provide high-quality, inclusive education for Spanish heritage speakers at all levels.

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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