Gloria Velez-Rendon

Gloria Vélez-Rendón, (PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2000) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Education. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures. Gloria joined Purdue University Calumet in August 2000. Her research interests include second language teacher education, Hispanic immigration and sociolinguistics. Gloria teaches the foreign language methods course at PUC and supervises foreign language student teachers as well. She also teaches Spanish language courses. She volunteers for

Refereed Publications
La construcción de identidades: El caso de universitarias hispanas inmigrantes en el contexto estadounidense. Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística. (Forthcoming)
From Student to Teacher: A Successful Transition . Foreign Language Annals , 39 (2006): 320-333.

Las autobiografías lingüísticas: Una propuesta metodológica para el desarrollo de la lecto-escritura de los alumnos hispanohablantes . Hispania, 88 (2005): 531-541.

Student or Teacher: Tensions Faced by a Spanish Language Student Teacher. Colombian

Applied Linguistics Journal , 5 (2003): 7-21.

English in Colombia: A Sociolinguistic Profile. World Englishes, 22 (2003): 185-198 .

Learning to Teach Spanish: A Case Study. Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 7 (2002): 103-129.

  Second Language Teacher Education: A Review of the Literature. Foreign Language Annals , 35 (2002): 457-467

Chapter Publications

With Silva, T., Reichelt, M., Chikuma, Y., Duval-Couetil, N. Mo, R.P., G., and Wood, S Second language writing up close and personal: Some success stories. In B. Kroll (Ed.), Exploring second Language writing: Issues for teachers . New York: Cambridge University Press (2003): 93-114.