Mandy Menke

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

M.A.: Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2006 -
B.S.: Elementary Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2001 -
B.S.: Spanish Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 2001 -
Ph.D.: Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010 -

Specialties

bilingual and immersion education
Spanish phonology
second language acquisition
multiliteracies instruction
Second language writing

Publications

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Publications

Acquisition of the Spanish voiced spirants by L2 learners: Face, Timothy L., Cascadilla Press, Menke, Mandy, Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, accepted.
Perception of irony by L2 learners of Spanish: Shively, Rachel and Manzon, Sandra, Menke, Mandy, Issues in Applied Linguistics, accepted.
Language and learning disabilities in immersion education: Educators' top questions and research-based, practitioner-informed responses. Fortune, Tara W., University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, Menke, Mandy, 2010.
Second language Spanish vowels production: An acoustic analysis: Face, Timothy, Menke, Mandy, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3, 181-214, 2010.
An initial examination of the Spanish vowels produced by Spanish-English bilingual children: Menke, Mandy, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 28, 98-135, 2010.
Preparing today's foreign language teachers: The role of digital literacies: Pettes Guikema, Janel, CALICO, Menke, Mandy, Digital literacies in foreign language education: Research, perspectives, and best practices, 265-285, 2014.
Analysing foreign language instructional materials through the lens of the Multiliteracies Framework: Kate Paesani, Menke, Mandy, Language, Culture, and Curriculum, 2018.
Evolving notions of literacy and its role in university foreign language instruction: A qualitative study of non-tenure-track faculty: Menke, Mandy, L2 Journal, 10, 2, 2018.
Development of Spanish Rhotics in Spanish-English Bilingual Children in the United States: Menke, Mandy, Journal of Child Language, 45, 788-806, 2018.
The Acquisition of Spanish Vowels by Two-way Bilingual Immersion Learners. Menke, Mandy, 2017.
How native do they sound?: An acoustic analysis of the Spanish vowels of elementary Spanish immersion students: Menke, Mandy, Hispania, 98, 804-824, 2015.
Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish. In J. MacDonald : John Benjamins, Menke, Mandy, Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, 237-258, 2018.
Las estrategias comunicativas en tareas orales por pareja: evidencia del aula universitaria: Michael Vrooman, Menke, Mandy, Actas del XXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) , 643-653, 2015.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Committee on Second Language Education September 2014 -
Organizing Committee: CARLA and CAL Immersion Conference, Immersion Education: Pathways to Bilingualism and Beyond. October 2007 - October 2008
Organizing Committee: Conference on the Second Language Acquisition of Spanish & Portuguese Phonology. - February 2008

Awards

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Awards

Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Award, May 2007 - August 2007
Graduate School Research Grant
Fellow, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, 2008-2009
Pew Teaching Excellence Award, December 2013
Imagine Fund Special Event Award, May 2017 - February 2018
U of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid, May 2017 - December 2018
Single-Semester Research Leave, University of Minnesota, August 2018 - December 2018
Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Grant, May 2017 - August 2017

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

SPAN 1001: Beginning Spanish
SPAN 1002: Beginning Spanish
SPAN 1022: Alternate Second-Semester Spanish
SPAN 1003: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 3015: Spanish Composition and Communication
SPAN 3107: Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Linguistics
FRIT 5999/ GSD 5103 / SPPT 5999: Common Methods Seminar
SPAN 3704: Spanish Sociolinguistics
SPAN 3730: The Impact of the Context of Learning on the Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language
SPAN 5930: Advancedness and the Foreign Language Learner of Spanish
SPAN 5991: The Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language