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M. Rafael Salaberry

M. Rafael Salaberry

Mary Gibbs Jones Professor — Program Advisor, Spanish and Portuguese

CONTACT

334 Rayzor Hall | 713-348-4868 | salaberry@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| Spanish and Portuguese | Latin American Studies | CLIC | Professional Webpage

Education

  • PhD, Cornell University 

 

Research and Teaching

  • Applied Linguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Multilingualism
  • Bilingual Education

 

Recent Courses

  • SPAN 350 - Dialects in Contact
  • SPAN 435 - Language Ideologies and Language Identities
  • SPAN 436 – Language and Thought: Tense and aspect

 

    Future Courses

    • SPAN XXX – Language and Power: The case of gender
    • SPAN XXX – Bilingual education in the US: Success or failure?

     

      In several publications, Prof. Salaberry has focused on the development of cognitive conceptualizations of temporality (tense and aspect), second language teaching, the effect of new media and technology on second language acquisition, and the socio-political dimensions of bilingualism and multilingual education (including questions of political and social justice). A list of his publications ranked by relevant citations is available at Google Scholar.

      Prof. Salaberry actively shares his research at refereed conferences and, also as an invited speaker. As part of his professional service, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, the Asia CALL Online Journal and the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Españolas (ILCE) at the Universidad de Navarra in Navarra, Spain, and Title VI Center - CEDAR (Curricular Enhancement, Development, Access, and Research) at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH.

       

      Selected Publications

       

      1. Books and Edited Volumes

      • Salaberry, M. R. (Ed.). (forthcoming in 2025). After COVID: Language, Diversity, and Social Justice. Series: Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics. de Gruyter-Mouton.

      • Salaberry, M. R., Weideman, A. & Hsu, W L. (Eds.). (2023). Ethics and context in second language testing: Rethinking validity in theory and in practice. Series: Language learning and use in social practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003384922

      • Salaberry, M. R., & Burch, R. (Eds.). (2021). Assessing speaking in context: Expanding the construct and its application. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788923828

      • Salaberry, M. R., & Kunitz, S. (Eds.). (2019). Teaching and testing Interactional Competence: Bridging theory and practice. Series: Routledge Advances in Second Language Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315177021

      • Salaberry, M. R., White, K., & Burch, A. R. (Eds.). (2019). Language learning and interactional experiences in study abroad settings – Special issue of the journal Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education. 4(1). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.4.1

      • Tao, H., Salaberry, M. R., Yeh, M., & Burch, A. R. (Eds.). (2018). Developing Discourse and Interactional Competence – Special issue of the refereed journal Chinese as a Second Language Research. 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/caslar-2018-frontmatter1

       

      2. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

      • Salaberry, M. R. (Forthcoming in 2025). What constitutes acquisition of viewpoint aspect? In Bardel, C., Bergström, A., Gudmunson, A., & Vallerossa, F. (Eds.). Tense and Aspect in Multilingual Romance Language Education. De Gruyter.
      • Salaberry, M. R. (forthcoming in 2024). Is the transformative claim about Translanguaging too powerful? Or not powerful enough? In Piotr Romanowski and Maria Luisa Perez-Cañado (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Multilingual Education. Cambridge University Press.
      • Comajoan-Colomé, Ll., & Salaberry, M. R. (forthcoming in 2024). Translanguaging and translanguaging practices in the Catalan educational system: Evolution and impact of the concept. Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana, (34), 131-156. https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSC
      • Diaubalick, T, Eibensteiner, L, and Salaberry, M. R. (forthcoming in 2024). The value of acquisitional data for describing cross-linguistic differences in the expression of aspectuality: A focus on learning strategies of German-speaking learners of L2 Spanish. In Egetenmeyer, J., Dessì Schmid, S. & Becker, M. (Eds.). Tense, aspect and discourse structure. Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. de Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111453897/html#Chicago
      • Salaberry, M. R. & Comajoan-Colomé, Ll. (2024). Lexical aspect. In T. Ionin, S. Montrul, & R. Slabakova (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003412373
      • Salaberry, M. R. & Weideman, A. (2023). Context, construct, and ethics. In M.R. Salaberry, A.  Weideman & W.L. Hsu (Eds.). Ethics and context in second language testing: Rethinking validity in theory and in practice, pp. 3-27. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003384922-2
      • Salaberry, M. R. (2021). Expanding the definition of aspect in L2 acquisition: Assessing advanced levels of competence to understand aspectual knowledge. Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, (87), 7-16. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.76709
      • Salaberry, M. R. (2021). Converging agendas of rationalist and discursive approaches for the development of a pedagogy of L2 pragmatics. In F. César Brasderfer, R. Shively & J. Sykes (Eds.), New Directions in Researching, Teaching, and Assessing L2 Pragmatics. Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721775-019

       

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