María Mayberry, Ph.D.

Courses | Professional Experience | Doctoral Thesis | Professional Affiliations

Contact Information
Title:	Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office Hours:	MRP 2041 Fall 2009 MTW 3-3:50 pm & by appointment
E-mail:	maria.mayberry@csus.edu
Office Phone:	(916) 278- 6286
Mailing Address:	Sacramento State University Foreign Languages Department 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6087

Courses

Fall 2009

• Span 1A - Syllabus | Oral Proficiency list
• Span 103 - Syllabus
• Span 201C -Syllabus

 

Spring 2009

• Span 1B -
• Span 102 -
• Span 103 -
• Span 201D -

 

Summer 2010

• Span 201C -
• Span 201D -

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Professional Experience

María Mayberry, Assistant Professor of Spanish, is a native of Monterrey, Mexico.  She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.  Before Texas she studied in Mexico at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, where she received the degree of Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación in 1981. She teaches beginning Spanish as well as courses in Spanish Grammar, Phonetics and Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses in understanding the difficulties faced by adult L2 language learners when processing speech. Her commitment to teaching and researching Spanish as a second/foreign language is rooted in her own experiences as an adult language learner. Prof. Mayberry joined the Foreign Language Department at CSUS in Fall 2006 with six years of experience teaching Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Doctoral Thesis

• Listening comprehension in the foreign language classroom

Professional Affiliations

• American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

Last updated: 08/31/2009