Current Projects

• Developing intercultural speakers and intercultural citizens through language learning
• A language needs analysis for medical Spanish
• The state of medical Spanish in the United States
• AI and language learning
• Virtual reality development for medical Spanish courses  ​
• ChatGPT as a tool in novice-level Spanish courses
• Medical Spanish assessment
• Patient and provider perceptions on interpreter-mediated care ​
• Intercultural and linguistic competence development through Languages for Specific Purposes ​
• Gamification in the second language classroom
• Goals and goal setting for second language learners ​

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Previous Projects

• The effects of cultural constructs on Hispanic health ​
• Social justice projects in the Spanish L2 classroom
• Community health assessment of Granada, Nicaragua​
• The use of social media in the L2 classroom
• Perceptual dialectology in L2 learners of Spanish
• Motivation in students
• Acoustic analysis of Spanish vowels
• Analysis of children's books in Spanish
• Spanish bilingual research - using eye tracking 
• Analysis of phosphate solutions using a cost-effective, custom-built colorimeter for the potential use in the classroom
• Ink analysis
• The incorporation of Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) and fluorescence quenching nitroaromatic explosive detection for the advancement of Homeland Security