Eduardo Negueruela

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Eduardo Negueruela holds a BA and MA degree in Philosophy and Philology from the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), and MA degree in Modern Languages from West Virginia University, and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Linguistics and Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University. Professor Negueruela is the director of the Spanish Basic language program at the University of Miami, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in second language teaching methodology, Sociocultural theory and language teaching, Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Spanish second language acquisition, and advanced writing, reading, and grammar courses in Spanish. Dr. Negueruela formed part of the graduate faculty at the University of Massachusetts (2003 to 2006) where he directed several doctoral dissertations and MA theses. In his research program, Professor Negueruela explores the connection between mind, language, and culture through the creation of semiotic artifacts that mediate first and second language development. His research appears in leading journals such as International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, as well as chapters in several edited volumes: Spanish Second Language Acquisition. The Art of Teaching (Georgetown University Press, 2006), Sociocultural Theory and Language Teaching (Equinox, 2008) Gesture: Second Language Acquisition and Classroom Research and Language Learning (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008) and Conceptions of L2 Grammar: Theoretical Approaches and their Applications to the L2 Classroom (AAUSC, Heinle and Heinle 2009). He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Second Language Development and the Sociocultural Mind. Dr. Negueruela also writes poetry. In Fall 2008, his poetry book Tropología was selected as the winner of "Nuevos valores de la poesía hispana 2008", a competition sponsored by Editorial Baquiana and the Centro Cultural Español.