Spanish
Division
Faculty

Rachel Mamiya Instructor Moore Hall 429 1890 East-West Rd. Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-3347 Fax: (808) 956-9536 E-mail: rmamiya@hawaii.edu http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rmamiya/

EDUCATION

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI: M.A. in SLS, Concentration in language pedagogy: 05/06    Major: Second Language Studies

Columbia University, New York, NY: Awarded B.A. degree, cum laude:  5/02  
Major: Spanish & Latin American Studies              Minor: Portuguese

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil: Junior Year Abroad Program

 

Awards And Honors

William J. Fulbright Grant 2007, Piraí , Brazil

 

Courses Taught

·         Spanish 101, 102 , 201

·         Portuguese 101, 202

 

Presentations

Using Podcasts in the Second Language Classroom, Hawaii Association of Language Teachers Spring Conference, Honolulu, HI 03/08

Supplementing a Textbook Using an Input Analysis Approach, Nation Conference of English Teachers, San José, Costa Rica, 01/08

Strategies and Activities for Working with Young Language Learners, Fulbright ETA Regional Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina 07/07

Materials Development, ELL Teacher Training Meeting,Piraí , Brazil 07/07

Bilingual Progress Update, X-Cross Technology Training, Piraí , Brazil  06/07

 Language Proposal, X-Cross Mid-term Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 04/07

 

Areas of research and training

·         Second Language Pedagogy, Teacher Training and Development

·         L2 Speaking & Listening

·         Reduced Forms and Connected Speech

·         Spanish and Portuguese L2 acquisition

·         Hawai‘i Creole English

·         Materials Development and Design

·         Corpus Linguistics