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Damaris Mayans

Title

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Department

Spanish

Information

Address

4671 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

Title Course Number(s) Section(s)
Elementary Spanish I SP125,    SP125 A,    B
Intermediate Spanish I SP127 D
Introduction to Critical Analysis: Spanish in the USA SP135E 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

  • Writing development in bilingual speakers

  • Contact Bilingualism

  • Heritage Speakers of Spanish

  • Bilingual and Third Language Acquisition

  • Psycholinguistics (sentence and word processing)