Jennifer Ewald, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Disciplines Taught: Linguistics, Spanish
Office: Bellarmine 330 B
Phone: 610-660-1864
Fax: 610-660-2160
Email: jewald@sju.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Courses Taught
Dr. Ewald teaches in both the Spanish Program and the Linguistics Program and serves as an advisor for students minoring in Spanish and/or Linguistics.
She regularly teaches courses in Beginning and Intermediate Spanish (SPA 101, 102, 201, 202), Spanish Conversation (301) and Spanish Composition (302), upper-division courses in Communication, Conversation, and Advanced Spanish Grammar, and courses on various topics within Spanish Linguistics, including An Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, Methods for Teaching Spanish and Spanish Phonetics and Phonology.
She also teaches courses in English including An Introduction to Linguistics (LIN 101), Teaching Languages at Home and Abroad (LIN 301), and "Can you Hear Me Now?": Communication in Social Contexts (LIN 340).
Research
Her teaching and research interests include:
- Spanish Language
- Applied Linguistics
- Classroom Discourse
- Second Language Teaching Pedagogy
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Teacher Education
- Pragmatics
"Applied Linguistics" broadly refers to the application of knowledge about language and the acquisition of language to practical uses including language teaching, language planning, translation, artificial intelligence, forensic linguistics and so on.
"Classroom Discourse" refers to the language used by students and teachers in the context of academic classrooms. Research in classroom discourse explores topics related to teachers' and students' use of questions, issues of power, small group collaboration, physical characteristics of learning environments and their relationship to language use, the morality of teaching, and many more.
"Second Language Teaching Pedagogy" is a broad field encompassing various factors related to teaching a second language including methodology, pedagogy, curriculum development, assessment, language learning strategies, and language learning anxiety, to name a few.
"Second Language Acquisition" focuses on the order, means and rate in which a person learns, or acquires, a second language.
"Language Teacher Education" deals with the training and development of both new and in-service teachers in both theory and practice.
“Pragmatics” is the field of linguistics that studies the relationship between context and meaning and explores language use in various real-life settings.
