Profile: Nydia Flores

Departments

School of Arts and Sciences Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

Associated Programs

Ph.D. program in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, School of Arts and Sciences and Center of Latin American Studies (CLAS) School of Arts and Sciences and Latino and Caribbean Studies.

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Education

Ph.D. City University Graduate Center, Linguistics
M.Ed. Temple University, TESOL
B.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Language Education

Publications

Books, Other than Textbooks, Including Scholarly Monographs

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2002) A sociolinguistic perspective on the use of subject personal pronouns in Spanish narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York City. Munich: Lincom-Europa. (pages: 149).
[Reviewed in 2004. Language Vol. 80, 4.]

Edited Books, Anthologies, Collections, Bibliographies

J. Camacho, N. Flores-Ferrán, L. Sánchez, V. Depréz, M.J. Cabrera (Eds.). (2007) Romance Linguistics 2006. J. Camacho, N. Flores-Ferrán, L. Sanchez, V. Depréz, M.J. Cabrera (Eds.). Philadelphia: Benjamins. (pages: 325).
[Reviewed in 2009. Lingua Vol. 119, Issue 3.]

PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Flores-Ferrán, N. (forthcoming) Pragmatic variation in therapeutic discourse: An examination of mitigating devices employed by Dominican female clients and a Cuban American therapist. In Félix Brasdefer, C & Koike, D (Eds.) Pragmatic Variation in first and second language contexts: Methodological issues. Impact Studies in Language and Society: Philadelphia: Benjamins.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007). Is the past really the past: Narrative discourse and verb tense production. Spanish in Contact: Educational, Linguistic, and Social Inquiries. In R. Cameron and K. Potowski, (Eds). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (pgs. 297-310).

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007). Los Mexicanos in New Jersey: Pronominal expression and ethnolinguistic aspect in Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, in: J. Holmquist, G.A. Lorenzino, and L. Sayahi (Eds.) (pgs. 85-91). Cascadilla: Somerville, MA.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2005). La expresión del pronombre personal sujeto en narrativas orales de puertorriqueños en Nueva York, in: Luis A. Ortiz & López, Manel Lacorte (Eds.): Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas. Madrid/ Frankfurt: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2005, pgs. 119-129. [Translation: The expression of personal subject pronouns in oral narratives of Puerto Ricans in New York. In text: Contact and Linguistic Contexts: Spanish in the United States and in Contact with Other Languages].

Articles in Refereed Journals

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2010). Letting go of the past in Spanish therapeutic discourse: An examination of verbs and discursive variables,Pragmatics 20:1. 43-70.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2010) An examination of mitigation strategies used in Spanish psychotherapeutic discourse.Journal of Pragmatics 42. 1964-1981.

*Flores-Ferrán, N. (2010) “¡Tú no me hables!” Conflict talk and subject expression. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 203. 61-82.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2009). Are you referring to me? The variable use of UNO and YO in oral discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 41. 9. 1810-1824.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2007). A Bend in the Road: Pronominal expression in Spanish after 30 years of sociolinguistic research. Language and Linguistics Compass, 1/61, 624-652.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2004). La expresión del sujeto en el español de Nueva York: el factor de la perseverancia. ASJU International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 38/1. 349-362. [Translated: Subject expression in New York Spanish: the factor of perseverance].

Cameron, R., & Flores-Ferrán, N. (2004). Perseverance of subject expression across regional dialects. Spanish in Context Vol. 1, 1. 41-65.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2004). Spanish subject personal pronoun use in New York City Puerto Ricans: Can we rest the case of English contact? Language Variation and Change 16, 49-73.

Flores, Nydia & Toro, Jeannette. (2000). The persistence of dialect features under conditions of contact and leveling, The Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 19 (2), 31-42.

Reviews

Flores-Ferrán, N. (in press 2010) A review of the Linguistic diversity and language rights series 2009, Language allegiances and bilingualism in the US. UK: Multilingual Matters, M. Salaberry (Ed.). Journal of Sociolinguistics. 14/4. 539-566.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (2008) [Review of the book: Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling.] International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 10, 6. 263-266.

Flores-Ferrán, N. (a book review 2010; submitted 5/2010) El Español en Contacto con otras Lenguas. Klee, C, Lynch A. (Ed.). [Translation: Spanish in contact with other Languages]

In progress projects:

Flores-Ferrán, N. & Rivero, S.A. (projected: 2013) Noticing discourse: A preliminary examination of pre-service Spanish teachers observations in a short-term international service learning program.

Flores-Ferrán, N. & Rivero, S.A. (projected 2013) English/Spanish Code switching in Argentina written discourse.   

Ferrán, N. & Kim, S. (projected 2012) Dinner-talk time: An examination of identity and politeness in Korean/English code switching

Flores-Ferrán, N. (projected 2013) Discourse Markers and Aspects of Spanish-English code switching in  Puerto Rican Spanish revisited.

Diaz-Campos, M. & Flores-Ferrán, N. (in manuscript/projected 2014) Hispanics in the US: Social Variables in Research

Research Inititatives

Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the US, Bilingualism, Spanish Pragmatics, Teaching English Language Learners, Second Language Acquisition, and Changing perspectives in the teaching of Spanish in the U.S.

My line of inquiry explores two interrelated avenues in the field of sociolinguistics: The use of Spanish in society and Spanish language education. I prepare pre- and in-service language teachers and future linguists to understand how languages are used by individuals and a speech community and, how language use should guide their practices and research. In addition to investigating language variation and change in Spanish, I also investigate pragmatic variation in the use of several Spanish features.

Two new international research initiatives:

1.  English/Spanish code switching in Argentinean written discourse.

2.  Noticing Discourse: The effects of service learning in a short-term international service learning program on pre-service Spanish teachers.

Latest international venture: Argentina Study Tour 2011, a project I initiated with La Universidad del Centro Latinoamericano (UCEL) in Rosario, Argentina. Graduate School of Education students provided service learning in an elementary school, were hosted by local families, toured cultural icons, and participated in seminars related to Language, Culture, and Education in Argentina. For more info, review the blog and write me directly to nydia.flores@gse.rutgers.edu--use this link: http://anargentinianeducation.wordpress.com/

Awards

06/2007-2007 Livingston Fellow: A grant to serve as a Coordinating Fellow in AY 2006-07 Global Futures Symposium Series at Livingston College “Transcending Borders: Spanish maintenance and family language practices-Latino Families in South Texas” by Dr. Robert Bayley.

Leader in Diversity Award 4/2007, for efforts to support diversity in research work at Rutgers.

Award 2007 Student Employee and Supervisor of the Year for Rutgers University.

Expertise

Bilingual: Spanish and English fluency

Portuguese and French: Conversational fluency

Argentina Service Learning Study Tour 2012:

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Write for more information: nydia.flores@gse.rutgers.edu