Talking to the media

Janis Leibold
Oct. 12, 1999





EVENT: Talk and reception

DATE/TIME:Thursday, May 11, 2000 7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Du Val Auditorium, of University Medical Center,
1501 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson, Arizona

COST:Free and open to the public

CONTACT:Dennis Evans, College of Humanities, 520-621-3701

TOPIC: Stanford professor, Guadalupe Valdes, is an internationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of applied linguistics. Her research has been focused on the English-Spanish bilingualism
of Latinos in the United States. She has attempted to describe how
two languages are developed, used and maintained by individuals
who become bilingual in settings (e.g. code-switching, language accommodation, language maintenance and the use of language in school and courtroom settings) and with applying the information
obtained from such descriptions to the educational context. According to Charles Tatum, Dean of the College of Humanities at the UA, "one of her most important achievements is her success in
bringing to the attention of teachers at every level the inherent value, logic and beauty of varieties of Spanish spoken along the
U.S.-Mexican border and in the barrios of cities throughout the
Southwest and California." Vales earned her doctorate degree in Spanish at Florida State University in 1972. She served on the faculty of New Mexico State University and at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a professor at Stanford University since 1992.

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