Roberto Rey Agudo
Language Program Director
Llegué al Departamento de Español y Portugués en 2016, tras haber enseñado español en los EE.UU. desde 2001. Mi docencia abarca los cursos en la secuencia inicial e intermedia de español: Español 1, Español 2, Español 3 y Español 9. En 2022 dirigí el programa Language Study Abroad en Barcelona. También enseño el curso Español 53: Bilingüismo: enfoques cognitivos y sociolingüísticos al bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante (Primavera 2021 y Primavera 2024). Pregúntame cualquier duda que tengas sobre los programas de lengua en el departamento, cómo trabajar como "drill instructor", o el requisito de lenguas.
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Department(s)
Spanish and Portuguese
Education
Ph. D. Universidad ComplutenseSelected Publications
"On Cinco de Mayo, Americans Speak 'mock Spanish.' Here's Why That's a Problem." Washington Post. May 5, 2021.
"Academe Shouldn't Automatically Call Langues Other than English 'foreign'." Inside Higher Ed. April 7, 2021.
"The Biden Administration Is Offering More Info in Spanish and ASL. That's a Start." Slate. February 1, 2021.
"A Reconsideration of the Value of Language Learning in College." Inside Higher Ed. December 1, 2020.
Speaking Engagements
"I Am not a Robot: Student Agency and Critical Digital Literacy in the Language Curriculum." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Philadephia, PA. January 4-7, 2024.
"Universal Design Learning: Increasing Accessibility in Peer-Led Sections." Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, IL. November 16-18, 2023.
"Filling the Gaps: What Students Know and What Students Care about Regarding Language Learning." Part of the ADFL-sponsored session "Resisting Securitization and Privatization: Toward New Advocacy Models for Language Learning." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. Virtual. January 10, 2021.
"Teaching Spanish after El Paso: Decolonizing the Spanish Language Curriculum." Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. March 5-8, 2020.
"Implementing Experiential Learning Initiatives in the Language Sequence." Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, DC. November 21-24, 2019.
"Aprendizaje experiencial: acercando la cultura al aula de ELE." Reshaping Hispanic Cultures. Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship. Observatorio Cervantes at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 10-11, 2019.
"Cross-Level Curricular Projects: Beyond the Language vs. Content Divide." Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Nashville, TN. November 17-19, 2017.
"Assessing Gains in Short-Term Study Abroad Programs." Matariki Arts and Humanities Research for the World. Tübingen Humanities Colloquium on Languages. Tübingen, Germany. October 11, 2017.
"The Case for a Second-Semester Study-Abroad Program." Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Boston, MA. November 18-20, 2016.
"La enseñanza de la cultura en la clase de ELE." Reshaping Hispanic Cultures. Instituto Cervantes Symposium on Recent Scholarship. Observatorio Cervantes at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 12-14, 2016.
"From Annotation to Essay: Developing Writing Proficiency through Digital Annotations." Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Hartford CT. March 17-20, 2016.
"Social Media for Cultural Competence: Study Abroad Learners as Ethnographers." Annual Convention of the Northeastern Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City. February 11-13, 2016.
Works In Progress
Illustrating Spain in the United States (Winter 2024). Exhibit that brings together comic creators and scholars in an artistic reflection on Spanish presence in the United States. In collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain. With support from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy Classroom Enhancement Grant.
Spanish 9 - Open Education Resources (2023-24). Grant to pilot an OER manual for Spanish 9. With support from the Dartmouth Library Open Education Initiative.
Selected Works & Activities
Linguistic Landscapes. Spanish 53.03 (Spring 2024). Humanities Lab Grant. Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Accessible Language Drills. Spanish 2 (2022-23 and 2023-24). Accessible Dartmouth Initiative Grant. Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.
Design Thinking Projects. LSA Barcelona (Winter 2022). Design Initiative Grant. Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.
Luso-Hispanic Film Festival. Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 9 (2017-18). Experiential Learning Grant. Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.