N. Ariana Mrak CURRICULUM VITAE

N. Ariana Mrak CURRICULUM VITAE DEGREES 2000 Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics Dissertation Cambios en el paradigma pronominal de tercera persona: Los efectos de la simplificación en el español de hablantes de origen mexicano de Houston Degree granted December, 2000 Dissertation Director: Manuel J. Gutiérrez, Ph.D. University of Houston, GPA: 4.0 1996 M.A. Spanish University of Houston, GPA: 4.0, passed exams with distinction 1984 B.S. Economics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas ACADEMIC AREAS OF CONCENTRATION: Sociolinguistics, Heritage Language Education, Second Language Acquisition PUBLICATIONS Submitted, Starting a heritage language program: Addressing the growing Hispanic student population at post-secondary institutions in the U.S. 2012 Lexical transfer from English to Spanish: How do bilingual and monolingual communities compare? Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 30 (1): 95-115. 2011 Heritage speakers and the standard: Fighting linguistic hegemony. In Luis A. Ortiz- López (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 13 th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (161-168). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2010 Empowering Spanish/English speakers in the Unites States: Reclaiming their Bilingualism. In John Watzke, Miguel Mantero and Paul Reece-Miller (Eds.), Readings in Language Studies, Volume 2. Language and Power (23-37). Tuscaloosa, Alabama: International Society for Language Studies. 2007 Conozcámonos! Curso práctico de español para el estudiante bilingüe en los Estados Unidos. Boston: Thomson Heinle. (Co-author Edwin Padilla). 2003 Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish: Third person accusative pronouns in the Mexican-American community of Houston. In Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López and Richard Cameron (Eds.), A Romance perspective on language knowledge and use. Selected papers from the 31 st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19-22 April 2001 (181-194). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2003 La enseñanza del español a los hispanohablantes bilingües y su efecto en la

producción oral. In Ana Roca and M. Cecilia Colombi (Eds), Mi lengua: Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, research and practice (198-212). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press (Co-author: Marta Fairclough). 2003 La enseñanza del español estándar a los estudiantes hispanoparlantes de Estados Unidos: diseño de un curso universitario. In Joan Perera (Ed.), Plurilingüisme I educació: els reptes del segle XXI: Ensenyar llengües en la diversitat I per a la diversitat. (373-384). Barcelona: Institut de Ciències de l Educació de la Universitat de Barcelona. 1998 El discurso de pasado en el español de Houston: Imperfectividad y perfectividad verbal en una situación de contacto. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 17 (2) :115-128. PAPERS PRESENTED 2012 Heritage language education: Getting the instructor ready 2012 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference: Interdisciplinarity, Boston, 26 Mar. (Refereed). 2011 La transferencia léxica: fenómeno exclusivamente bilingüe? 23 rd Conference on Spanish in the U.S., University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 18 Mar. (Refereed) 2011 A Lone is not Alone: Everyone Loans Inaugural Meeting of Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 22 Jan. (Refereed) 2010 Heritage language education and Spanish/English bilinguals World languages symposium: The changing landscape of language teaching, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 11 Sep. (Invited) 2010 Starting a heritage language program: Addressing the growing Hispanic student population at post-secondary institutions 5 th International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics, 3 rd Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society, University of Limerick, Ireland, 8-10 Jul. (Refereed) 2009 Heritage speakers and the standard: Fighting linguistic hegemony Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2009, Session on Heritage Languages, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23 Oct. (Refereed) 2009 Empowering Spanish/English speakers in the U.S.: Reclaiming their bilingualism International Society for Language Studies, ISLS 2009 Conference, Critical Language Studies: Focusing on Power, Orlando, 12 Jun. (Refereed) 2006 Let s get to know Conozcámonos!, the new first edition title for the Spanish heritage learner Instructors Resource Center Webinar sponsored by Cengage, (copresenter: Edwin Padilla), 9 Nov. (Invited). Available online: http://www.cengage.com/tlconnect/client/discipline/archived_online_seminars.do?di sciplineid=70 2005 Teaching Spanish to native speakers, Workshop conducted at North Harris College, Houston, 27 Aug. (Invited) 2004 Speaking academic Spanish: Looking beyond first year courses for heritage learners of Spanish Session 391, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign 2

Languages, 38 th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Chicago, 20 Nov. (Refereed) 2004 Spanish instruction for heritage speakers: Research-Based approaches Session on Methodology in Teaching Spanish, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, New Frontiers, Acapulco, 31 Jul. (Refereed) 2002 U.S. Spanish vs. standard Spanish: A contrastive classroom approach Poster session, 2 nd National Conference on Heritage Languages in America, Washington, D.C., 19 Oct. (Refereed) 2002 La enseñanza del español estándar a los estudiantes hispanoparlantes de Estados Unidos: Diseño de un curso universitario Bloc 5, XXIII Seminari Llengües I Educació, Reunió de la Xarxa Temática L Educació Lingüística i la Formació d Ensenyants en Situacions Multiculturals i Multilingües, Barcelona, 1 Jun. (Refereed) 2001 Dative third person pronouns: A quantitative study of clitic use in Mexican- American Spanish Session on Pronouns in Spanish and French, Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) 30, Albuquerque, 30 Sep. (Refereed) 2000 Clitic simplification in a contact variety of Spanish Para-session on Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) XXXI, Chicago, 21 Apr. (Refereed) 1999 Heritage language education and non-monitored oral production in Spanish Session on Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language, 17 th National Conference on Spanish in the United States. Miami, 13 Mar. (Co-presenter: Marta Fairclough). (Refereed) 1998 Simplification of the Spanish Verbal Clitic Paradigm in the Spanish Spoken in Houston: Leísmo due to language contact? Div. on Language Change, Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Chicago, 27 Dec. (Refereed) 1997 Imperfectividad verbal en el español de Houston Session on Morphology, LASSO XXVI. Los Angeles, 3 Oct. (Refereed) WORK EXPERIENCE 2009-Present Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of North Carolina Wilmington 2006-2009 Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Houston-Downtown 2000-2006 Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Houston-Downtown 1999 Assistant Director of Basic Spanish Language Instruction, UH 1999 Part-Time Lecturer, Rice University 1998 Adjunct Professor, University of Houston-Downtown 1997-2000 Teaching Fellow, University of Houston COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate Computer-Assisted Elementary Spanish I, Rice University Contrastive Structures, University of Houston Conversation and Composition-University of North Carolina Wilmington 3

Conversation through Literature, University of Houston-Downtown Elementary Spanish I and II, UH, UH-D Intermediate Spanish II-UNCW Intermediate Spanish II Honors-UNCW Intermediate Spanish for Bilingual Speakers I & II-UNCW Oral Communication, UH Professional Oral Communication, UH-D Spanish Grammar, UH-D, UNCW Spanish Grammar and Composition, UH-D Spanish Grammar for Teachers, U. de Salamanca (Study-Abroad Program) Spanish for Native Speakers, I & II, UH, UH-D Spanish Linguistics, UH-D, UNCW The Spanish of the U.S., UNCW Teaching Spanish, UH-D U.S. Spanish vs. Standard Spanish, UH-D Graduate Advanced Grammar for Teachers, UNCW The Spanish of the U.S., UNCW Teaching College Spanish, UNCW ACADEMIC SERVICE Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee (2011-2012) Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish (2011-2012) Member, Policy and Procedures Committee (2011-2013) Member, Masters Oral Defense: Brittany Croce (2011), Katherine Denton (2011), Kevin Sledge (2011) Member, Departmental Capstone Committee (2011) Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (2010-2011) Departmental Library Representative (2010-2012) Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish (2010-2011) Coordinator, Spanish for Bilingual Speakers Program (2009-Present) Member, Dissertation Committees Completed: Ana Hnat (2008), Encarna Bermejo (2009), Sonia Dupré (2009), Jennifer Ayres (2009) Member, Director of Academic Assessment Screening Committee (2008-2009) Member, Chair for Arts and Humanities Department Search Committee (2008-2009) Member, University Library Committee (2008-2009) Member, Departmental Rank and Tenure Committee (2006-2009) Member, Study Abroad Scholarship Committee (2006-2008) Member, English Linguistics Search Committee (2006-2007) Member, University Faculty Development Committee (2004-2005) Member, Director of Marketing and Communications Screening Committee (2005) 4

Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (2004-2005) Member, Departmental Unit Plan Committee (2004-2005) Member, Masters Thesis: Patricia Gubitosi (2004) Member, Evaluation Form Committee (2003-2004) Member, Spanish Search Committee (2002) Member, University s Student Fee Committee (2001-2003) Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (2001-2002) Member, English Linguistics Search Committee (2001-2002) Member, Communications Search Committee (2001-2002) EDITING AND REVIEWING Manuscript review for Spanish as a Heritage Language in the U.S.: State of the Science (2011) Exam review for Prentice Hall-Pearson Education (2010) Manuscript review for Heritage Language Journal (April 2009) Manuscript review for Foreign Language Annals (January 2008) Video Program review for McGraw-Hill (December 2008) Book review for McGraw-Hill (September 2007) Book review for Prentice Hall-Pearson Education (2004) Manuscript review for Rio Bravo: A Journal of Borderlands (2004) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2012 Co-Director of Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina, 2 nd Regional Conference UNCW 2012 Teaching Foreign Languages Online: A Discussion on Current Practices, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW 2011 Assessment and Evaluation: Two Approaches to Improving Student Learning, UNCW FLL / Pearson Publishing Professional Development Workshop 2011 Workshop on Analyzing Assessment Findings and Determining Next Steps, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW 2011 Training for Assessing University Studies Courses, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW 2010 Summer Curriculum Development Initiative Award College of Arts and Sciences University of North Carolina Wilmington 2010 Workshop on Assessment, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCW 2009 Workshop on Learning Goals in the Honors Classroom, Honors Scholars Program, UNCW 2009 Diversity Seminar, Center for Teaching Excellence, UNCW 2006 ACTFL OPI Training, Middlebury, Vermont, July 2006 2005 Recipient, Course Load Reduction for textbook work College of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Houston-Downtown 5

2004 Recipient, Faculty Development Grant University of Houston-Downtown 2002 Co-Director, University of Houston Study Abroad Program Salamanca, Spain (Summer 2002) 2000 Workshop on Statistical Analysis, 29 th NWAV Conference, East Lansing, Michigan 1999 Workshop on Teaching Courses in Business Spanish, Montgomery College, Houston, Texas 1999 Workshop on Computer-Assisted Writing, University of Houston 1999 First recipient of the Dr. Harvey L. Johnson Scholarship 1998 Institute of Hispanic Culture Academic Merit Scholarship 6