Mandy Menke

Publications

• Paesani, K., Menke, M. (in press). Literacies Pedagogy in Language Education: A Guide for Teachers and Teacher Educators.. Georgetown University Press.
• Menke, M., Malovrh, P. (2021). Evolving Perspective on Advancedness: Research from Second Language Spanish. John Benjamins.
• Menke, M. (2021). Linguistic markers of stance in advanced L2 Spanish academic writing. Evolving Perspective on Advancedness: Research from Second Language Spanish, 245-271.
• Menke, M., Malovrh, M. (2021). The (limited) role of proficiency assessments in defining advancedness. Evolving Perspective on Advancedness: Research from Second Language Spanish, 17-40.
• Menke, M., Strawbridge, T. (2019). Writing in a Foreign Language Studies Major: A Longitudinal Analysis of Syntactic Complexity. Journal of Second Language Writing, 46.
• Menke, M., Anderson, A. (2019). Student and Faculty Perceptions of Writing in a Foreign Language Studies Major. Foreign Language Annals, 52, 388-412.
• Menke, M., Paesani, K. (2019). Understanding teacher discourse around multiliteracies pedagogy. Pathways to Paradigm Change: Critical Examinations of Prevailing Discourses and Ideologies in Second Language Education , 83-107.
• Face, T., Menke, M. (2020). L2 acquisition of Spanish VOT by English-speaking immigrants in Spain. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 13, 361-389.
• Menke, M. (2021). Phonological development in Spanish Immersion: A Comparison of Programmatic Context. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 9, 112-144.
• Menke, M., Paesani, K. (2019). Analysing foreign language instructional materials through the lens of the Multiliteracies Framework. Language, Culture, and Curriculum, 32, 34-49.
• Menke, M. (2018). Literacy-based curricula in university foreign language instruction: Perceptions from non-tenure-track faculty. L2 Journal, 10, 111-133.
• Menke, M. (2018). Development of Spanish Rhotics in Spanish-English Bilingual Children in the United States. Journal of Child Language, 45, 788-806.
• Menke, M. (2017). The Acquisition of Spanish Vowels by Two-way Bilingual Immersion Learners. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 3, 80-107.
• Menke, M. (2018). Voice onset time and the child foreign language learner of Spanish. Contemporary trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, 237-258.
• Menke, M., Vrooman, M. (2015). Las estrategias comunicativas en tareas orales por pareja: evidencia del aula universitaria. Actas del XXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) , 643-653.
• Pettes Guikema, J., Menke, M. (2014). Preparing today's foreign language teachers: The role of digital literacies. Digital literacies in foreign language education: Research, perspectives, and best practices, 265-285.
• Menke, M. (2015). How native do they sound?: An acoustic analysis of the Spanish vowels of elementary Spanish immersion students. Hispania, 98, 804-824.
• Fortune, T.W., Menke, M. (2010). Language and learning disabilities in immersion education: Educators' top questions and research-based, practitioner-informed responses. University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.
• Menke, M. (2010). An initial examination of the Spanish vowels produced by Spanish-English bilingual children. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 28, 98-135.
• Menke, M., Face, T. (2010). Second language Spanish vowels production: An acoustic analysis. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3, 181-214.
• Face, T., Menke, M. (2009). Acquisition of the Spanish voiced spirants by L2 learners. Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium.
• Shively, R., Menke, M., Manzon, S. (2008). Perception of irony by L2 learners of Spanish. Issues in Applied Linguistics.

Activities

Awards

• Social Justice in Language Education: Strengthening Career Competencies, Intercultural Understanding, and Language Proficiency (Social SCILS), U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI International Research and Studies Program Awarded to the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition Grant team: Kate Paesani (director), Lauren Goodspeed, Mandy Menke, and Helena Ruf, 2020
• U of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid, May 2017 - December 2018
• Imagine Fund Special Event Award, May 2017 - February 2018
• Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Grant, May 2017 - August 2017
• ACTFL Research Priorities Grant, 2018
• Pew Teaching Excellence Award, December 2013
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, 2008-2009
• Halls of Distinction, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018

Courses

• 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
• SPAN 5930: Complexity, Accuracy & Fluency in Second Language Spanish