Ana Fernández Dobao

Ana Fernández Dobao works in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department of the University of Washington, where she has been recently promoted to Full Professor. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. She is the Director of the UW Spanish Language Program, a core faculty member of the Graduate Certificate in Second and Foreign Language Teaching, and a member of the Committee on Multilingual Teaching, Research, and Learning. She had previously taught at the University of Montreal, Brown University and the University of Santiago de Compostela where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2005. Her area of specialization is applied linguistics with a focus on second language acquisition, heritage language learning, and foreign language pedagogy. In her research, she explores second and heritage language learning in instructed settings. She is currently working on a project that examines positioning practices and language learning opportunities in the interaction between second and heritage language learners in mixed classes. She is also collaborating in a study on the acquisition of the minority language by children in a Spanish/English dual immersion setting.

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Contact information:

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

University of Washington

Padelford C-104

Box 354360

Seattle, WA 98195-4360, USA

E-mail: anadobao@u.washington.edu