Sara M. Beaudrie
261 E. Calle Zafiro / Modern Languages 523
Oro Valley, AZ 85704 / Spanish and Portuguese Department
Home Phone: 520-219-2984 / University of Arizona
Email: / Office Phone: 520-626-3379
Webpage: / Fax: 520-621-6104
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EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy –Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), August 2006
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Major: Pedagogical Theory and Program Administration
Minor: Spanish Linguistics
Dissertation title: “Spanish Heritage Language Development: A Causal-Comparative
Study Exploring the Differential Effects of Heritage versus Foreign Language
Curriculum”
(Dissertation chair: Dr. Robert Ariew;Committee members: Drs.Beatrice Dupuy and Peter Ecke)
Master of Arts –English as a Second Language,May 2002
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts in Education –Teaching English as a Foreign Language, August 1999
Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V. González, Buenos Aires, Argentina
HONORS AND AWARDS
Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship –Spring 2006($14,504)
-Based on topic, methodology and contribution of dissertation
Herbert E. Carter Travel Award–Spring 2006($600)
-For participation in CALICO with an innovative project with outstanding promise and creativity in the area of interdisciplinary activities
Underrepresented Minority Final Project Fund, University of Arizona – Fall 2005 ($1,500)
Graduate Fellowship, SLAT, University of Arizona– Fall 2005
Graduate Registration Scholarship, SLAT, University of Arizona– Spring 2005
Centennial Achievement Graduate Student Award - Nomination by SLAT Program Director – Fall 2004
-To recognize outstanding achievement and contributions of minority graduate students
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS),University of Arizona – 2003-2004 ($17,758)
-To pursue studies in Latin American History and Politics and Portuguese
GRANTS
Student/Faculty interaction grant: fall 2006, spring 2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Department– 2007-present
-Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the Hispanic linguistics program and Ph.D. concentration in Border Studies
Spanish Heritage Language Program Director, Spanish and Portuguese Department– 2006-present
-Responsible for curriculum and language placement development, supervising and traininginstructors in the heritage language program, organizing program events and outreach efforts to the heritage language teaching community, and advisingstudents in the program
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Department– 2006-2007
-Responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the Hispanic linguistics program and Ph.D. concentration in Border Studies
Research Assistant to Dr Janet Nicol, University of Arizona – Summer 2005
Co-Designer of the Computerized Spanish Heritage Language Placement Exam for the Department of Spanish – Spring 2005-present
Assistant to the Director of Heritage Language Program – Summer 2003, 2004
-Responsible for supervising, administering, scoring and editing the proficiency assessment exams of Heritage Spanish students during the New Student Orientation sessions with subsequent individual advising on placement
Conversation Analysis and Coding– 2002-2004
-Transcribed naturally-occurring phone Spanish conversations for Talk Bank Project (under the direction of Dr Malcah Yaeger-Dror)
Adjunct Faculty for the Spanish Department, PimaCommunity College – Spring 2003-Fall 2005
Teaching Associate in Teaching, Spanish and Portuguese Department– 2002-2006
Teaching Assistant in Teaching, Spanish and Portuguese Department– 2001-2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Arizona
Graduate courses
Linguistic perspectives on Mexican-American Spanish and bilingualism (Spanish 574)– Spring 2007
-Topics included bilingual education, language planning, language and identity, and language maintenance and loss
Spanish Heritage Language Pedagogy (Spanish 574)– Fall 2006
-Topics included sociolinguistic, linguistic, and pedagogical issues related to teaching Spanish to heritage language learners with both a theoretical and practical focus
Topics in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (Analysis Section) (SLAT596y)– Fall 2003, Fall 2004
-Co-taught course for incoming graduate students in SLAT Ph.D. Program
-Devised reading list, created exam, led lectures and discussion groups on linguistic perspectives on SLA (Theories of Grammar and Access to Universal Grammar, Methodological Problems in Linguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, The Critical Period Hypothesis and Phonology)
Upper-division courses
Spanish Linguistics: Bilingualism and bilingual education (Spanish 459)– Spring 2007, Fall 2007
Spanish Applied Linguistics(Spanish 457)– Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
-Responsible for course design, syllabus development, readings selection, and course assessment; use of web-based course management system
-Topics included teaching methodologies, SLA theories, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, technology, pedagogical grammar, and assessment
Phonology and Phonetics for the SpanishNative Speaker (Spanish 343)– Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
-Developed syllabus, materials, lessons,and exams; use of web-based course management system
-Implemented computer-enhanced curriculum using the web, internet conferencing, digital recording, and video technologies
Heritage language courses
Intermediate Composition for Heritage Learners (Spanish 253)– Fall 2004, Fall 2005
-Developed syllabus, materials, and portfolio assessment
-Implemented computer-enhanced curriculum for literacy development using chat-rooms, internet conferencing, blogging, Internet, and a course management system
Advanced Composition for Heritage Learners(Spanish 333) – Spring 2005
-Developed syllabus, designed materials, and assessment
-Designed lessonswith an emphasis onadvanced literacy development
Advanced grammar and writing foreign language courses
High Intermediate Writing and Grammar Class(Spanish 251)– Spring 2003
-Computer-mediated course for Spanish minors and majors
-Designed process-writing lessons and collaborative tasks for grammar instruction
Beginning and intermediate language and culture foreign language courses
Third Semester Spanish (Spanish 201) – Fall 2002
Third and Fourth Semester Spanish-Intensive Course: (Spanish 206) – Summer 2002
Second Semester Spanish (Spanish 102) – Fall 2001, Spring 2002
-Developed supporting interactive grammar website:
PimaCommunity College
Beginning and intermediate classes in Spanish language and culture
First Semester Spanish(Spanish 101) – Fall 2005
Fourth Semester Spanish(Spanish 202) – Summer 2004
Third Semester Spanish (Spanish 201) – Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004
Introductory Spanish(Spanish 85) – Spring 2003
-Designed communicative, computer-enhanced lessons, materials, and assessment
AmphitheaterMiddle School
Bilingual Teaching Assistant – Fall 2001, Spring 2002
-Responsible for assisting limited English-proficient students in learning science content taught in science mainstream classes (6th, 7th, 8th grades)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Secondary school foreign language English teacher (1990-1999)
-Taught beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses in both public and private high schools
-Designed curriculum, developed lessons and assessment following a task-based approach
Business English/Spanish instructor (1994-1999)
-Developed individual and group ESP classes in business English with a focus on travel, finance, economics, negotiations, banking, law, and accounting
-Individual and team-taught courses in English and Spanish
-Taught TOEFL preparation courses
CERTIFICATIONS
Arizona State Teaching Certification in English with ESL endorsement K-12
ArizonaState Teaching Certification in Spanish
TEACHING INTERESTS
Heritage and foreign language teaching methodologies
Spanish applied linguistics
Technology in language teaching
Foreign and heritage language teacher development
Introduction to linguistics
Spanish in the Southwest
Bilingualism
Advanced grammar and composition
Spanish as a foreign language (all levels)
Spanish as a heritage language (all levels)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in refereed journals
Beaudrie, S. (in press). La enseñanza del acento ortográfico en español y su relación con la
percepción de la sílaba tónica. Hispania.
Beaudrie, S. (2005). Refinando la noción de foco en español: Cuestiones semánticas y
sintácticas, Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 12, 21-30.
Beaudrie, S. & Ducar, C. (2005). Beginning level university heritage language
programs: Creating a space for all heritage language learners. Heritage Language Journal, 3.Available:
Beaudrie, S., Brown, A. & Thompson, G. (2004). Multiple perspectives on teacher
evaluation in the foreign language classroom, Arizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 11, 57-80.
Works in progress
Beaudrie, S. What should a teacher know to be prepared for the HL classroom?
Beaudrie, S. Spanish heritage language programs in the American Southwest.
Beaudrie, S., Ducar, C., & Relaño-Pastor, A. Curricular and pedagogical considerations in
the SHL context: Student perspectives.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
International/national conferences
“Curricular and pedagogical considerations in the SHL context: Student perspectives” to be presented in AAAL 2007 Annual Conference, Costa Mesa, California, April 2007(co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“¡Dime cómo hablas y te diré en qué clase debes estar! Creating your own Spanish heritage language placement exam” paper presentation at theXXI Conference on Spanish in the US and IV Spanish in Contact with other languages, Arlington, Virginia, March 2007 (co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“Receptive bilinguals’ language development in the classroom: The differential effects of heritage versus foreign language curriculum” paper presentation at theXXI Conference on Spanish in the US and IV Spanish in Contact with other languages, Arlington, Virginia, March 2007.
“Spanish Heritage Language Programs in the American Southwest: A Snapshot of Current Programs” to
paper presentation at the 2007SWCOLT conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2007.
“El acento ortográfico en español y su relación con la percepción del acento prosódico
en la clase de español como segunda lengua” accepted for a paper presentation at the First
InternationalConference on the Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language,
Rosario,Argentina, June 2006.
“The acquisition of orthography in the heritage language classroom: An action research
Study”paper presentation at the 2006 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL)Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006.
“Spanish heritage language placement exams: An introduction and model for implementation” paper presentation at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Convention (CALICO) in Waikiki, Hawaii, May 2006 (co-presenters Cynthia Ducar & Hale Thomas).
“Heritage language teacher preparation: A framework of implementation” paper presentation
at the 2005American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages(ACTFL) Conference in
Baltimore, Maryland, November 2005 (co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“Beginning level heritage language learners: Attitudes and pedagogical implications” paper presentation at the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers, Las Cruces, New Mexico, July 2004 (co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
Regional/local conferences
“Maximizing the heritage language learner’s satisfaction and language development in the classroom: Students’ perceptions and pedagogical implications” paper presentation at AZLA Conference, University of Arizona, October 2006.
“El acento ortográfico en español: La relación con la percepción de la sílaba tónica y sus implicaciones para la clase de español como lengua extranjera” paper presentation atthe16th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona, February 2006.
“I have a heritage learner in my class, now what do I do?” paper presentation at the 2005 Second Language Teachers' Symposium,University of Arizona, September 2005(co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“Forgotten learners: Creating a niche for beginning heritage language students”paper presentation at the SLAT Roundtable, University of Arizona, March 2005 (co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“Perspectives on teacher effectiveness” poster session at SLAT Roundtable, University of Arizona, February 2004 (co-presenters Alan Brown & Greg Thompson).
“Teacher evaluations: Perceptions of teacher effectiveness” paper presentation at the14th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture, University of Arizona, February 2004 (co-presenter Alan Brown & Greg Thompson).
Invited talks
“Publish or perish: How to survive as a graduate student inacademia,”guest lecture in Academic Culture: A preparatory course for Fullbright scholars beginning graduate studies. Center for English as a Second Language, University of Arizona, July 2005 (co-presenter Cynthia Ducar).
“Programmatic and placement issues in the heritage languageclassroom,”guest lecture in Spanish Applied Linguistics, University of Arizona, November 2005.
In-service teaching-training workshops
“Identifying and advising heritage language learners,” Graduate Student Orientation, Spanish & Portuguese Department, University of Arizona, August 2006.
Training workshop for instructors in the heritage language program, Graduate Student Orientation, Spanish & Portuguese Department, University of Arizona, August 2006.
“Effective teaching practices share day,”Spanish heritage language program at Spanish & Portuguese Department, University of Arizona, October 2006.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Foreign and heritage language pedagogy
Computed-assisted language learning
Foreign and heritage language teacher development
Spanish acquisition and development
Effective language teaching practices
Spanish in the U.S.
Spanish program development and administration
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Elected positions
Treasurer of Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2006-2008)
SLAT program webmaster, University of Arizona, 2005-2006
Co-coordinatorFifth Annual SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable, Spring 2006
Secretary of SLATSA (SLAT Student Association), University of Arizona, 2005-2006
SLAT Colloquium organizer, University of Arizona, 2004-2005
Pedagogy area editor for theArizona Working Papers in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, SLAT program, University of Arizona, 2004-2005
Pedagogy area student representative, SLAT program, University of Arizona, 2004-2005
Volunteer positions
Abstract reviewer for SLAT Interdisciplinary Roundtable (analysis section), University of Arizona, Spring 2006
Abstract reviewer and volunteer for Second Language Research Forum (SLRF),University of Arizona, Fall 2003
Abstract reviewer (pedagogy section) and volunteer for SLAT Roundtable, University of Arizona, 2004
Peer mentor for incoming SLAT student, University of Arizona, 2003-2004
Editorial assistant for scholarly journal: Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies(AJHCS),Volume 7, Summer 2003
Workshop series presenter, Spanish and Portuguese Department, Preterit forms, Spring 2002
COLLEGIAL SERVICE
Faculty advisor and organizer: Club Latinos de Arizona (club for heritage language learners at the University of Arizona), 2006-2007
Steering Committee, Partnership Across Languages (PAL), 2006
Organizer of the Fall 2006 Heritage Language Program Social
Organizer of the Fall 2006 Student/Faculty Interaction Day
Judge, Poetry Contest for Spanish Native Speakers, Southern Arizona Language Fair, Spring 2005
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native speaker
English: Near-native
Portuguese: Low-intermediate proficiency
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACFTL)
-Spanish for Native Speakers Special Interest Group
Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC)
Arizona Language Association (AZLA)
REFERENCES
Dr. Robert Ariew, Professor (Dissertation Committee Chair)
Acting Director, Ph.D. Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
ModernLanguagesBuilding
1423 E. University Blvd., Room 549
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ85721-0014
Telephone: (520) 621-7349, E-mail:
Dr.Malcolm Compitello, Professor
Head, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
ModernLanguagesBuilding
1423 E. University Blvd., Room 545
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ85721-0014
Telephone: (520) 621-3123, E-mail:
Dr. Eliud Chuffe, (Former supervisor)
Director of Basic Languages, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
ModernLanguagesBuilding
1423 E. University Blvd., Room 552
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ85721-0014
Telephone: (520) 621-7346, E-mail:
Dr. Beatrice Dupuy, Associate Professor (Dissertation Committee member)
Director of Basic Languages, Department of French and Italian
ModernLanguagesBuilding
1423 E. University Blvd., Room 564
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ85721-0014
Telephone: (520) 621-7340, E-mail:
Dr. Glenn Martínez, Associate Professor(Former director)
Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
CASBuilding, Room 329
1201 W. University Drive
University of Texas Pan-American
Edinburg, TX78539
Telephone: (956) 381-3441, E-mail:
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