Alumni News – Spanish and Latino Studies /spanish-and-latino-studies Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:54:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Meet Josmary Medina ’22 /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/10/12/meet-josmary-medina-22/ /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/10/12/meet-josmary-medina-22/#respond Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:37:18 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/spanish-and-latino-studies/?p=1184 Josmary Medina studied Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Latino Studies, completing the M.A. component of her in May 2022. While at Montclair State, she realized that not only does she really enjoy learning but also that she’s very interested in linguistics. During her final semester, she applied to other graduate programs in different universities across the country. She is currently a student in a doctoral program in Hispanic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She is also a Graduate Teaching Associate, which means that she teaches basic level Spanish courses at Ohio State.

In the future she would like to teach at the university level and conduct research on topics such as languages in contact, dialectal variation, and language acquisition.

]]> /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/10/12/meet-josmary-medina-22/feed/ 0 /spanish-and-latino-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2022/10/Josmary_Medina-300x235.jpg Harvard-Bound SLTS Alum Advocates for Future First-Gen Teachers /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/07/07/harvard-bound-slts-alum-advocates-for-future-first-gen-teachers/ /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/07/07/harvard-bound-slts-alum-advocates-for-future-first-gen-teachers/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:30:44 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/spanish-and-latino-studies/?p=1136 Efrain Monterroso, Spanish and Latino Studies Department alum and Spanish teacher at Hightstown High School, recently published an article on the New Jersey Education Association’s site. Before heading to Harvard this fall to study Education Policy and Analysis, Efrain is encouraging support for ending the edTPA final portfolio project requirement which often disheartens prospective teachers, particularly because of its lengthy time commitment outside of the classroom.
For the complete article, pls see here: 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> /spanish-and-latino-studies/2022/07/07/harvard-bound-slts-alum-advocates-for-future-first-gen-teachers/feed/ 0 /spanish-and-latino-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2022/07/IMG_0931_550X300-copy-300x167.jpg Emily Ip, BA, Spanish, ’20, Fulbright Semi-finalist /spanish-and-latino-studies/2021/03/16/emily-ip-ba-spanish-20-fulbright-semi-finalist/ /spanish-and-latino-studies/2021/03/16/emily-ip-ba-spanish-20-fulbright-semi-finalist/#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:59:07 +0000 http://www.montclair.edu/spanish-and-latino-studies/?p=949 It’s “the most widely recognized and prestigious international exchange program in the world” () and now Emily Ip, Spanish, BA, ’20, joins four other vlog graduates as a semi-finalist for a Fulbright Study/Research Grant.

In addition to receiving her Spanish BA (Translation concentration), she also earned a BA in Linguistics (Language Engineering concentration) and a minor in Music. Her future plans include pursuing a MSc in Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing through Fulbright University of Sheffield and to study clinical applications of cognitive computational models of languages.

Click here for more information and additional MSU Fullbright semi-finalists and student scholarships recipients.

Emily Ip

Emily Ip, ’20 BA Spanish

]]> /spanish-and-latino-studies/2021/03/16/emily-ip-ba-spanish-20-fulbright-semi-finalist/feed/ 0 /spanish-and-latino-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2021/03/Emily_Ip_large_v2-300x164.jpg