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Damaris Mayans

Title

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Department

Spanish

Information

  • [email protected]
  • (207) 859-4405
  • Lovejoy 323

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
SP126 Elementary Spanish II A
SP126 Elementary Spanish II B
SP126 Elementary Spanish II C
SP127H Spanish Language for Heritage Learners 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)
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