This collection contains scholarly articles, reports and other publications authored by World Languages & Cultures faculty members at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Submissions from 2022
Professor Enrique Torner "Tener otro idioma es poseer otra alma", Consoly León Arias and Enrique Torner
SEÑAL, Software de procesamiento de Ensayos en espaÑol y Análisis Lingüístico, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Submissions from 2021
Text Classification for L2 Spanish Compositions, Santiago Arróniz and Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Cien años de soledad: Impunidad, memoria y derechos humanos, Andrés Molina-Ochoa and Alfredo Duplat
Right to the Truth in the Colombian Conflict: Realities and Fiction, Andrés Molina-Ochoa and Alfredo Duplat
A Changing Landscape of Voseo in Medellin? The Momentum of Voseo in the Public Signage of the Valle de Aburra, Colombia., Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
A Sociolinguistic Examination of the Dual Usted in Medellin, Colombia: Evidence from Semi-Spontaneous Speech and Implicit Language Attitudes, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
If Signs Could Talk: The Linguistic Landscape of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Introducing SEÑAL, a Computational Tool for the Linguistic Analysis of Spanish L2 Compositions, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Islander Creole Corpus (ICC) at AILLA, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Non-Vibrant Bilingual Rhotics in a Creole-Spanish Contact Scenario, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Writing to Increase Complexity: Spanish L2 Learners' Complexity Gains in a College Composition Class, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The Syntactic and Discourse Properties of Second Person Singular Forms of Address in Paisa Spanish, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos and Nofiya Sarah Denbaum
Antología de la literatura española del Romanticismo: desde sus precedentes en la poesía trovadoresca provenzal hasta el Posromanticismo, Enrique Torner
Submissions from 2020
La vorágine: Impunity, Memory and Human Rights, Andrés Molina-Ochoa and Alfredo Duplat
A Changing Landscape of Voseo in Medellín? The Momentum and Perception of Voseo in the Public Signage of the Valle de Aburrá, Colombia, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Informal Acceptance and Formal Rejection: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Voseo in Chile, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Public Signage in a Multilingual Caribbean Enclave, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The L2 Acquisition of Second Person Singular Forms of Address in the Study Abroad Context: The Case of Medellín, Colombia, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Writing to Increase Complexity: Spanish L2 Learners' Complexity Gains in a L2 Composition Class, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Saint Peter's Bones: A History of His Findings, Enrique Torner
The Death of Pope John Paul I: A Reappraisal, Enrique Torner
Submissions from 2019
La escritura en el programa de maestría en línea y sincrónica de la Universidad Estatal de Minnesota en Mankato, una experiencia exitosa, Alfredo Duplat
Las narrativas del recelo y el proyecto nacional: Los casos de Colombia y Ecuador, Alfredo Duplat
Technology and Innovation in the Field of Spanish for the Professions at Minnesota State University, Mankato: A Successful Experience, Alfredo Duplat
A Sociophonetic Analysis of Islander Creole Rhotics, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
A Sociophonetic Analysis of Islander Creole Rhotics, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
El español en Estados Unidos: Un recorrido breve por su origen y expansión, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Language Contact and Divergent Paths of Variation: Bilingual Rhotics in Two Island Communities, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Professional Development for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Tan paisa como vos: Competing Forms of Address in Medellin, Colombia, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Variable Neutralization of the Tap/Trill Contrast in a Bilingual Spanish-Creole Community, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
An Analysis of the Discourse of Advanced Low and Advanced Mid Speakers of Spanish when Talking about the Past, Enrique Torner
El teatro antimodernista español: Máter dolorosa (1904) de Leopoldo Cano y El Tenorio modernista (1906) de Pablo Parellada, Enrique Torner
Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe, Enrique Torner
The Mysterious Task of Translating the Names of Mystery Subgenres: A Private Eye Investigation, Enrique Torner
The Second Vatican Council (11 October 1962-8 December 1965): An Attempt at World Unification that Decided the Fate of Catholic Birth Control, Enrique Torner
The Sins of the Unholy See: From Franco to Pope John Paul I. A Historic Unveiling, Enrique Torner
Submissions from 2018
Gabo y la memoria en el país de Macondo, Alfredo Duplat
Las memorias de lo atroz: Literatura y proyecto nacional en Colombia Congreso, Alfredo Duplat
Gabmap - A Web Application for Mapping Dialectal Diversity: Bringing In-Sights from Research to the Dialectology Classroom, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
If Signs Could Talk: Tales from Two Minority Landscapes in Contact with Spanish, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The Linguistic Landscape of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, Colombia, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The Linguistic Landscape of Old Providence, Colombia: Introducing a Methodological Approach to Language Contact Scenarios, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The Spanish of the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia: A Comparative Variationist Study on Bilingual Rhotics, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Submissions from 2017
Literatura, memoria y DD.HH. en Colombia, Alfredo Duplat
Spanish in Contact with Islander Creole, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Subject Pronoun Expression in Second Language Learners: The Case of First-Person Subject Pronoun, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Submissions from 2016
Fictions of Distrust and the Right to the Truth in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Vortex in Colombia, Alfredo Duplat
The Duty of Memory and the Need for Accountability in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Vortex in Colombia, Alfredo Duplat
Subject Pronoun Expression in Second Language Learners: A Corpus Study, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Subject Pronoun Expression in Second Language Learners: Differentiating Paths of Acquisition, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Variation in the Use of estar + gerund in the Past Tense, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
Submissions from 2015
The Internment of German-Ecuadorians During World War II, Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Literacy and Its Thresholds: Review of Thresholds of Iliteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance by Abraham Acosta, Alfredo Duplat
Incidental Vocabulary Learning in Second Language Acquisition: A Literature Review, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
The Effect of the Spanish Diminutive in Gender Processing of Opaque Nouns, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos and Jorge Valdés-Kroff
Submissions from 2014
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) for ESL Instruction and Curriculum, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos
De la muerte y otros amores = Death and the beloved, Sara B. Vanégas Coveña and Kimberly E. Contag
Submissions from 2013
Up the Ante: Teaching Spanish for the 21st Century Workplace, Kimberly E. Contag
Submissions from 2012
The Brazilian Sources of Narrative Transculturation, Alfredo Duplat
Mankato Public Schools: Cross-Institutional Partnerships for Effective Teacher Preparation, Kathleen Foord, Laura Bemel, Jeffrey Pribyl, C. Burns, G. Berry, Richard Auger, Marsha Traynor, Ginger Zierdt, J. Meyer-Mork, and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Ideología de Estado en Bolivia durante el gobierno de Evo Morales: Las políticas del «capitalismo andino-amazónico, Tom Lewis and Alfredo Duplat
Submissions from 2011
Prólogo in Jaquelín Verdugo Cárdenas’s Recorridos Imaginarios: territorios y escrituras en la obra lírica de Sara Vanégas Coveña, Kimberly E. Contag
Social Geography and Cultural Maps in Angel Rama’s Literary Canon, Alfredo Duplat
Transculturation between Panamericanism and Nationalism in Latin America, Alfredo Duplat
Submissions from 2010
Genealogías de la transculturación en Ángel Rama, Alfredo Duplat
Un paso adelante y dos atrás: La apropiación de Ángel Rama por el Grupo de Estudios Subalternos Latinoamericanos, Alfredo Duplat
Humor(ous) Matters in Ubidia’s Divertinventos, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Iberian Studies, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Submissions from 2009
Mentoring the Undergraduate Scholar/Motivating the Faculty Mentor, Kimberly E. Contag
Cómo narrar lo marginal: el regionalismo y el canon latinoamericano en Antônio Candido y Ángel Rama, Alfredo Duplat
Un paso adelante y dos atrás: La apropiación de Ángel Rama por el Grupo de Estudios Subalternos Latinoamericanos, Alfredo Duplat
Biodiversity and Subjecthood in Ecuador’s Constitution, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Hacia metas y recomendaciones para el mejoramiento o reforma del sistema educativo en el Ecuador, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
The Americas Clean House: the Case of Ecuador during WWII, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Una nueva ciudadanía ecuatoriana: la madre naturaleza, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Books from 2008
Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries: From 1500 to the Present, Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, and Erwin P. Grieshaber
Deseo cumplido, Enrique Torner
Submissions from 2007
Multiple Approaches to Teaching and Learning New Technologies, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Submissions from 2006
Sustaining Innovation: Putting Digital Technologies into the Hands of Students, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
The Challenge to Spanish Nobility in the Fourteenth Century: The Struggle for Power in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor, 1335, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Jerome Mintz, Enrique Torner
Translating for the Publishing Field, Enrique Torner
Submissions from 2005
The Relocation of a German-Ecuadorian Family in World War II: The Americas Clean House, Kimberly E. Contag
Unraveling Myths of Don Quixote, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Submissions from 2004
Supplementing Language, Culture, and Literature Courses, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Submissions from 2001
Language Learning in the K-12 Classroom, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Sustaining Innovation: Putting Digital Technologies into the Hands of Students, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Using Digital Technologies to Teach the Humanities: A Sensory Approach to Learning, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Using Digital Technologies to Teach the Humanities: A Sensory Approach to Learning, James A. (Jim) Grabowska and Kimberly E. Contag
Submissions from 2000
El imperio del dólar en el Ecuador, Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Considerations in the Use of Digital Technology, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Let the Text Speak for Itself Revisited: Using Exempla to Teach the Middle Ages, James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Pushing a River: Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Innovation, James A. (Jim) Grabowska, Kimberly E. Contag, and Jane Miller
Submissions from 1999
The Route of Don Quixote, James A. (Jim) Grabowska and Kimberly E. Contag
Submissions from 1998
What's So Funny about Don Quixote?, Kimberly E. Contag
Una desviación de la ruta de don Quijote, Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Reflexiones de un catalán americanizado. Mis impresiones y experiencias por la Barcelona post-olímpica, Enrique Torner