Tyler Kimball Anderson

Education

Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, August 2006

· Dissertation title: Spanish-English bilinguals’ attitudes towards codeswitching

· Dissertation committee: Drs. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (director), John Lipski, Giuli Dussias, Barbara Bullock

M. A. in Spanish Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, December 2002

· Thesis title: Leísmo in the upper-class speech of Bogotá

· Thesis committee: Drs. J. Halvor Clegg (chair), Orlando Alba, Jeffery Turley

· Minor: Spanish Pedagogy

B. A. in Spanish, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 1999

A. A. with honors in Spanish, Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho, August 1997

Teaching Experience

Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO, 2006-present
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Using Technology, Culture and Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom (FLAS 444), Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies (FLAS 442), Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (FLAS 441), Spanish Conversation (FLAS 314). Second-Year Spanish (FLAS 211/212), First Year Spanish (FLAS 111/112)

Penn State University, University Park, PA, 2001-2006
Lecturer 2004-2006

Teaching of Romance Languages (Span 440), Intermediate College Spanish (Span 100), Supervisor Intermediate College Spanish

Graduate Teaching Assistant 2001-2004

Intermediate College Spanish Grammar (Span 100), Beginning College Spanish (Span 1/2/3), Supervisor Intermediate College Spanish

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1999-2001
Spanish Student Instructor

Intermediate College Spanish (Span 201/202), Beginning College Spanish (Span 101/102)

Alpine School District, Orem, UT, 1997-1999
ESOL Instructor

Joint School District #251, Rigby, ID 1996-1997
ESL Instructor and Tutor

Other Experience

Research Assistant, Dr. Judith Kroll, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, July 2004

Editorial Staff, La marca hispánica, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2000-2001

Research Assistant, Dr. Orlando Alba, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, April-June 2000

Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Smead, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Sept.-Dec. 2000

Publications and Presentations

Anderson, Tyler & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (2007). Attitudes towards lexical borrowing and intra-sentential code-switching among Spanish-English bilinguals, Spanish in Context, 4, 2, 217-240.

Anderson, Tyler (2007). Perceptions of the best varieties of Spanish: Mexican-Americans in Western Colorado, prestige, stigma and linguistic insecurity, The 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, September 21-23.

Anderson, Tyler and Luis Silva-Villar (2007). Command Spanish: A communicative approach? The 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, September 21-23.

Anderson, Tyler (2007). Spanish-English bilinguals’ reactions to felicitous and infelicitous codeswitching, 21^st Conference on Spanish in the U.S., March 15-18.

Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline & Tyler Anderson (2004). Attitudes towards lexical borrowing and intra-sentential code-switching among Spanish-English bilinguals, 20^th Conference, Spanish in the U.S., March 24-26

Anderson, Tyler & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (2004). Attitudes of Spanish-English bilinguals towards contact Spanish, The Ninth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology—ICLASP 9, June 30-July 3.

Anderson, Tyler (2003). Review of Language and Gender by P. Eckert and S. McConnell-Gennet, in Linguist List, issue 14.1289

Anderson, Tyler (2001). To Be or Not To Be: The influence of language contact on the use of copulas in Spanish and Catalan, La marca hispánica, 12, 71-84.

Awards

Faculty Professional Development Award, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO, 2008.

Teacher Excellency Award, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2003.

Teacher Excellency Award, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2002.