Angélica Pérez Burgos
Graduate Student of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
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Education:
M.A., Linguistics, University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras
B.A., Foreign Languages and Hispanic, Linguistics University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras
Biography:
Angélica is a graduate student of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese in Penn State. She has experience teaching English in Puerto Rico, which introduced her in the classroom environment and allowed her to observe the diversity of learners’ attitudes and behavior. This is also enriched by her experience as a foreign language student, which allows her to create learning strategies. During her BA, she studied French and German. Currently, she is learning Mandarin Chinese.
Research Interests: Spanish-English bilingualism, individual differences among learners, learners’ attitudes, metalinguistic awareness, crosslinguistic influence, and psychotypology
