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Kacie Gastañaga

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Contact Information

4080 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
PhD Candidate

Research Interests

Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Heritage Language Acquisition

Classroom Language Acquisition

Feedback Processing

L2 Writing

Heritage Language Writing

Education

PhD in Spanish Linguistics and SLATE (2019-In Progress)

MA in Hispanic Studies- University of Kentucky (2019)

Middlebury Summer Portuguese School (2018)

BA in Spanish- University of Alaska Anchorage (2016)

Awards and Honors

Darlene Wolf Fellowship for SLATE Student with Outstanding Teaching and Academic Achievement (2022)

Best Graduate Student Paper in Spanish Linguistics (2022)

Timothy J. Rogers Memorial Summer Fellowship (2022)

Hispanic Studies Award for Second-Year Teaching Assistant (2019)

Hispanic Studies Award for Service to the Department (2019)

Wimberly C. Royster Graduate Excellence Award (2017-19)

Reedy Academic Excellence Stipend (2017-19)

Courses Taught

SPAN 303- Sounds of Spanish

SPAN 228- Spanish Composition

SPAN 142- Spanish for the Professions

SPAN 141- Introduction to Spanish Grammar

SPAN 122- Intensive Elementary Spanish

Intermediate Spanish I & II (University of Kentucky)

Elementary Spanish I & II (University of Kentucky)

Additional Campus Affiliations

2021-2023 Co-coordinator: Education Justice Project - Language Partners

Recent Publications

Bowles, M., & Gastañaga, K. (2022). Heritage, second and third language learner processing of written corrective feedback: Evidence from think-alouds. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 12(4), pp. 675-696. 10.14746/ssllt.2022.12.4.7.

Hurtado, I., & Gastañaga, K. (2021). Influence of Writing Instruction on Spanish Heritage Learners in Heritage-Only and Mixed Courses: A Longitudinal Study. Languages, 6(2), pp. 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020109