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khwest@arizona.edu
West, Katharine
Graduate Associate
Katharine West is an instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is presently a student in the Ph.D. in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching programme at the University of Arizona. This is her third year as an instructor in the Basic Language Programme in Spanish.
As a 'tentative' speaker of Irish, her own heritage language, her research so far has been focused on how non-standard learners learn second (and additional) languages and how language ideologies and attitudes both help and hinder this learning.
Her research interests consider how online tools work to help learners and educators use technology to move beyond traditional limitations of language learning.
She is passionate about sharing her love of languages with others; and how, learning other languages makes us better communicators.