Specialties
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Spanish language contact
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sociolinguistics
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bilingualism
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second language acquisition
Educational Background
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Ph.D.: Hispanic Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1984.
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M.A.: Hispanic Literatures, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1980.
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B.A.: Spanish, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 1975.
Publications
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Klee, Carol A. and Andrew Lynch. 2009. El español en contacto con otras lenguas. Georgetown University Press.
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Klee, Carol A. 2009. Migration and globalization: Their effects on contact varieties of Latin American Spanish. Español en los Estados Unidos y en otros contextos: Cuestiones sociolingüísticas, políticas y pedagógicas, ed. by Manel Lacorte y Jennifer Leeman, 39-66. Vervuert/Iberoamericana.
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Klee, Carol A. and Rocío Caravedo. 2006. Andean Spanish and the Spanish of Lima: Linguistic variation and change in a contact situation. Globalisation and language in the Spanish-speaking World, ed. by Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart, 94-113. Palgrave Macmillan Publisher.
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Klee, Carol A. and Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol. 2006. A content-based approach to Spanish language study: Foreign languages across the curriculum. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: State of the Art of Application, ed. by Barbara Lafford and Rafael Salaberry, 23-38. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
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Klee, Carol A. and Rocío Caravedo. 2005. Contact-induced language change in Lima, Peru: The case of clitic pronouns. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. by David Eddington, 12-21. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1082.
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Lynch, Andrew and Carol A. Klee. 2005. Estudio comparativo de actitudes hacia el español en los Estados Unidos: educación, política y entorno social. Lingüística Española Actual (Madrid) 27.273-300.
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Koike, Dale and Carol A. Klee. 2003. Lingüística aplicada: La adquisición del español como segunda lengua. NY: Wiley.
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Klee, Carol A. 2001. Historical perspectives on Spanish-Quechua language contact in Peru. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20 (1).1-15.
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Lynch, Andrew, Carol A. Klee, and Diane J. Tedick. 2001. Social factors and Spanish language proficiency in postsecondary Spanish immersion: issues and implications. Hispania 84. 510-24.
Research Activities
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“Language Change in Peru: Dialect Contact as a Result of Andean Migration to Lima”: Sociolinguistic research project in collaboration with Rocio Caravedo
Professional Activities
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President : National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations , 2010 - 2011
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Member, Editorial Board: Spanish in Context , 2007 - 2009
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Member, Editorial Board: Modern Language Journal , 2000 - present
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Member (Chair 2001-02): Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association , 1999 - 2002
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President: American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators, and Directors of Language Programs , 1995 - 1996
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Member, Board of Directors: Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL) and the National Council for Languages and International Studies (NCLIS) , 2010 - 2011
Awards
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The Emma Birkmaier Award of the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures, 1997
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Diploma from President Nils Hasselmo and the Board of Regents presented at the All University Forum on Diversity, University of Minnesota, May 1992
Courses Taught
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Span 8790 - Research Seminar on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages
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Span 5717 - Spanish Sociolinguistics
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Span 5718 - Spanish Language Contact
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Span 5930 - Topics in Spanish Sociolinguistics
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Span 5985 - The Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish in the United States
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Sppt 5999 - The Teaching of College-Level Spanish: Theory and Practice
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Span 5991 - The Acquisition of Spanish as a First and Second Language
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