Dr. Rachel Kirk

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain

Translation Certification, Georgia State University

Master of Arts in Spanish, Middlebury College

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, cum laude, Cornell College

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Presented A New Chavez at the Grace A. Tanner Symposium on Democracy, Rhetoric, and Language at Southern Utah University, January 2010.
Presented The Effects of Processing Instruction With and Without Output at the Second Language Processing and Parsing: State of the Science conference at Texas Tech University, May 2009.
Attended the Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter Training, May/June 2009.
Content supervisor to student teachers

HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Awarded Best Paper in the Humanitites, Philosophy & Foreign Languages Division by the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 2012.
Awarded the grade of cum laude for doctoral dissertation at the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija.
Instrumental in creating a new mentoring program at Mounds Park Academy, 2007.
Received recognition as an Outstanding Educator by the University of Richmond, 2001

PUBLICATIONS

Kirk, Rachel W., 2012. "The Father, Hugo Chavez, and the Holy Spirit: Power from oratory." Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, (Vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1-23).
Kirk, Rachel W. 2012. "The Acquisition of Three Infinitival and Three Conjunctional Phrases: Establishing a hierarchy of difficulty." The Utah Academy of Sciences, Letters, & Arts.
Barney, S. T., Kirk, R. & Fife, B., 2011. "Interdisciplinary international service-learning: The story of our success." In R. L. Miller, E. Amsel, B. M. Kowalewski, B. C. Beins, K. D. Keith & B. F. Peden (Eds.), Promoting student engagement (Vol. 1, pp. 73-81).
Kirk, Rachel W., 2011. "A New Chavez," In L. Trepanier (Ed.) Political Rhetoric and Leadership in Democracy. Utah: Southern Utah University Press (pp. 131-150).
Kirk, Rachel W., ~2011. "The Effect of Processing Instruction With and Without Output," in Advances in Processing Instruction, eds. James Lee, Wynne Wong, Michael Leeser (John Benjamins).
Kirk, Rachel W., 2007. "'Para' y 'para que' con verbos en infinitivo y subjuntivo: un estudio con alumnos anglófonos." Revista Nebrija de Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas Aplicadas.

RESEARCH INTERESTS