Ms. Aubrey Villanueva and Ms. Mayte Vega Mudy Present at NSSHL

On Friday Feb. 28, 2020, Ms. Aubrey Villanueva and Ms. Mayte Vega Mudy presented at the National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language hosted at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM with Drs. Christoffersen and Bessett.

The talk entitled "What do the students say?: A survey of students' experiences building a community corpus" analyzed student responses to an open-ended survey. Ms. Mayte Vega Mudy described the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) and its integration into the coursework, while Ms. Aubrey Villanueva described her analysis of the student survey, in which she found students reported increased community engagement, an increased appreciation of local language varieties, the development of professional skills, and interest in research.

The full conference program and abstract are available online.