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.
• Academic Advisor to student teachers
• Advisor of the SUU Interpreters Club, which provides volunteer interpreting in Cedar City.

 

HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS

• 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

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Second language acquisition
• Processing Instruction
• Hugo Chavez
• Language and Identity