Rebeca Acevedo
Loyola Marymount University, United States
Rebeca Acevedo is a Professor of Spanish at Loyola Marymount University in Los Ángeles, CA. Her áreas of expertise are Spanish Linguistics, with an emphasis on Historical Linguistics: Mexican Spanish & Spanish of the U.S. She is currently working on a Project related to “El papel del lenguaje radial en la estandarización del español angelino”.
Some of her publications include “La variedad local en la enseñanza del español en EEUU: una propuesta pedagógica” Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization. 6 (1) (2014), 110-127. « La tradición histórica del español de California » Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua y Cultura. Departamento de Lenguas Modernas. Vol. 1. (2013), 86-98, “La tradición histórica del español en California” International Jornal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Vol. 31. 2012, 29.55, and El español mexicano durante la Colonia: el paradigma verbal en el altiplano central. Universidad de Guadalajara
“Virtual conversations in Spanish with students from Latin America are so alive and fluid that instead of demanding students to participate, you need to interrupt them when the session has ended.”