María Mayberry, Ph.D.
Courses | Professional Experience | Doctoral Thesis | Professional Affiliations | Professional Affiliations |
Contact Information |
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| Title: | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
| Office Hours: |
MRP 2041 |
| E-mail: | maria.mayberry@csus.edu |
| Office Phone: |
PREFER e-mail, please |
| Mailing Address: |
Sacramento State University Foreign Languages Department 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6087 |
Courses
Spring 2012
- SPAN 1B - Syllabus Schedule - Oral Proficiency list
- SPAN 102 - Syllabus
- SPAN 103 - Syllabus
Fall 2012
- SPAN 1A - Schedule - Oral Proficiency list
- SPAN 1B - Schedule - Oral Proficiency list
- SPAN 103 - Syllabus
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
Professional Affiliations
- American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Useful websites
- Dos Mundos (McGraw-Hill)
- Businesss Spanish-cultural interviews - listening (created by Prof. Orlando Kelm, UT Austin)
- Essentials in Medical Spanish - listening (created by Prof. Orlando Kelm, UT Austin)
- Police Department scenarios - listening (created by Prof. Orlando Kelm, UT Austin)
- Video clips of Spanish native speakers (created by Prof. Orlando Kelm, UT Austin)
- Foreign Language Requirement- letter to students
Last updated: 04/15/2012
