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Damaris Mayans

Title

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Department

Spanish

Information

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
SP126 Elementary Spanish II B
SP126 Elementary Spanish II C
SP128H Spanish Composition for Heritage Learners A
SP135E Introduction to Critical Analysis: Spanish in the USA A
SP298 Language Justice in the Spanish Speaking World A

Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Dissertation: Gender agreement processing in
monolingual speakers and heritage speakers of Spanish.
M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Illinois.
Certificate in Translation Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Illinois.
B.A. in English Philology
Universidad de Alicante, Spain.

Areas of Expertise

  • Psycholinguistics (sentence and word processing)

  • Contact Bilingualism

  • Heritage Speakers of Spanish

  • Bilingual and Third Language Acquisition