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Romance Languages
Olin Center
180 Packard Avenue
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: (617) 627-2770
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Nancy Levy-Konesky
Lecturer in Spanish

Degrees: B.A. & M.A., American University; Ph.D., Boston College

Expertise: Foreign language methodology; Second language acquisition; Immersion techniques; Curriculum and instruction: university/high school/middle school with an emphasis on interdisciplinary curriculum development, content-based learning, technology/video in the classroom, cooperative learning, blended and distance learning; Experiential learning/Community and service learning; Caribbean literature and culture with an emphasis on Puerto Rico.

Scholarship & Research:

• Nuevos horizontes: gramática, conversación y cultura, primera edición: intermediate Spanish text, John Wiley Publishers, 2004.
   
• Fuentes, Intermediate Spanish video program, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 2004.
   
• Horizontes: gramática y conversación, quinta edición, intermediate Spanish text, John Wiley Publishers, 2003.
   
• Así es 4th edition: elementary Spanish language and Hispanic culture college textbook, CD-ROM, Website, full set of ancillaries, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Harcourt Brace, Thomson Heinle Publishers.
   
• (Nuevas) Fronteras: gramática y conversación, second edition, Fronteras: literature y cultura, Editions 1-3, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996.
   
• Interview with Gloria Estefan, “Preserving Latino Culture in the U.S.,” Boston, MA. Interview with John Leguizama, Pedro Martínez, Alberto Gonzales, “Hispanics in the U.S.” Interview with Former Counsel to the President, Alberto Gonzales, The White House, Washington, D.C. Interview with Mel Martínez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., “Growing Latino Population in the U.S.” Interview with Isabel Allende, “The Creative Process,” “Politics in Chile.” (2001-2006).

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