Jorge Aguilar-Sánchez Academic Site

Ph.D. double major in Linguistics (TESOL and Applied Linguistics) and Hispanic Linguistics (expected graduation date May 2009).
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Dissertation Title: Syntactic Variation: The case of copula choice in Limón, Costa Rica
Dissertation Committee: Manuel Díaz-Campos (Chair), Kimberly Geeslin, Ken Kelley, Beverly Hartford, Harry L. Gradman.

M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Specific areas: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Syntax
MA exams committee: Manuel Díaz-Campos (Chair), Kimberly Geeslin, Joseph Clancy Clements

M.A. in TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Specific Area: ESL Grammar
Thesis: A revised approach to teaching the English tense and aspect system based on empirical evidence from the field of second language acquisition and a critical review of current pedagogical practice .
Coursework finished in 2002, Thesis defended in 2004
MA Thesis committee: Harry L. Gradman (Chair), Beverly Hartford, Daniel J. Reed.

Licenciatura (MA equivalent) en Lingüística Aplicada (finished coursework)
Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

Bachiller en la Enseñanza del Inglés
Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

Research Assistant
Dr. Elizabeth Winkler
Collected oral data in Limón, Costa Rica

Field Research
Dissertation Field Work
Collected 57 20-minute oral interviews

S105 Intensive Beginner Spanish material creator and proofreader. Indiana University
Dr. Juan Manuel Soto Arribi
Created items, embedded audio for the Ancla project of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Proyecto Ancla i s a technology-enhanced instructional project developed by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. Its purpose is to enhance the content and evaluation aspects of language and culture courses through innovative uses of technology, customized for learners of Spanish as an additional tool for classroom instruction.

Language Testing Consultant. Second Language Testing Inc.
Prof. Daniel Reed and Prof. Charles Stansfield
Created items, field-tested the adaptation to Spanish of the Modern Language Aptitude Test for Elementary Schools (MLAT-E to MLAT-ES), applied and coordinated the validation of the MLAT-ES in Costa Rica.

Research Assistant. Speech and Hearing Laboratory. Indiana University
Prof. Raquel Andersen
Collected oral data from primary school children and transcribed data collection sessions using CHILDES code.