My name is Próspero N. García and I am an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Applied Linguistics at Rutgers University, Camden. I hold a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics (2012) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a focus on Applied Linguistics and Language Program Direction and Administration. My research interests lie in the fields of Spanish second language acquisition and pedagogy, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of mind, second language evaluation and assessment, and technology enhanced language learning. My most recent works explore the role of agency in the conceptualization of grammatical categories, and the implementation of concept-based teaching in the L2 Classroom. I have also been nominated on two occasions to the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and my pedagogical materials have been published in several textbooks. |