RESEARCH

Areas of research interest

• Latin American dialectology and sociolinguistics, social and geographic varieties of Spanish, Spanish linguistics, linguistic variation, languages in contact, language attitudes and language ideologies.
  

DISSERTATION

• "The use of the preterite and the present perfect in the Spanish of Lima". 2006  

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Summer Fellowship. Project: "Linguistic Variation and Language Ideologies in Peruvian Amazon Spanish." College of Liberal Arts. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2007

RESEARCH GRANT

• Graduate Student Field Research Grant. Project: "The use of the Preterite and the Present Perfect in the Spanish of Lima." Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. 2003

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Ongoing research: "Uses of the Present Perfect in the Spanish of Lima."   2007-2008
• Ongoing research: "Linguistic Variation and Language Ideologies in Peruvian Amazon Spanish".  College of Liberal Arts. University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  2007-2009

• Elaboration of teaching material for the course Communication I (Communication I) for the Peruvian Bachillerato Degree, based on an extensive review of language education theory and methodologies. Funded by the Universidad de Lima. 1998
  
• Evaluation of Spanish Language Teaching material for High Schools. Funded by the Universidad de Lima. 1997
  
• "Television discourse and academic discourse in the teaching-learning process" ("Discurso televisivo y discurso docente en el proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje"). Funded by the Universidad de Lima. 1994
  
• "Linguistic mistakes in learning Spanish as a second language" (Errores lingüísticos en el aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua"). Funded by the Escuela Superior de Interpretación y Traducción. 1994