🎉 Enhorabuena to this week’s Author Spotlight, Ana María Ortega Pérez!

Ortega Pérez’s review of Aportes del CAES a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera: estudios aplicados de gramática y pragmática (Ballestero de Celis & Sampedro Mella, 2021) is a well-organized and thoughtful review. The author succinctly discusses the book’s structure and calls attention to the most notable contributions. Additionally, Ortega Pérez highlights the value this book has for helping support those dedicated to teaching and research in Spanish understand how corpus linguistics like the Corpus de Aprendices de Español (CAES) can be used to improve learning about linguistics.

📖 Read the full review.

Ana María Ortega Pérez is a journalist and has an MA in International Relations. She finished her PhD in Communication at the University of Seville (2020). Currently, she is doing a PhD in Linguistics at University of California, Davis. She also teaches Spanish for Heritage Speakers at the same university. Her current research interests are Spanish heritage speakers, materials development, Critical Pedagogy and teaching culture in the language class. Learn more about Ana María Ortega Pérez, and connected with Ana on LinkedIn.

References

Ballestero de Celis, Carmen y María Sampedro Mella, editoras. Aportes del CAES a la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera: estudios aplicados de gramática y pragmática. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: University of Sorbonne
Nouvelle – University of Santiago de Compostela, 2021. Pp. 285. ISBN 978-8418445453.