Manel Lacorte

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Manel Lacorte, from Barcelona, Spain, earned his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK). He is Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics, Director of the Spanish Language Program, and Coordinator of Instruction and Professional Development in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland. His research and publications focus on language classroom interaction, language use and identity, social and cultural issues in second language and heritage language teaching and learning, and applied linguistics. He has edited Romance Languages and Linguistic Communities in the United States (2002); Contacto y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas (2005); Lingüística aplicada del español (2007); and Spanish in the United States and Other Contact Contexts: Sociolinguistics, Ideology and Pedagogy (2009). He is co-editor with Judy Liskin-Gasparro of the Prentice Hall Second Language Professional Series. Manel is now writing an academic book on interaction and sociopolitical contexts in foreign language teaching and learning, and a textbook for beginning Spanish.