Associate Professor of Spanish
maritza.bellcorrales@maconstate.edu

Dr. Maritza Bell-Corrales is a native of Colombia.  She earned a BA in Language Education/Second Language Acquisition from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia.  After living abroad in Saudi Arabia and Brunei,  Dr. Bell-Corrales earned an MA in Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition from the University of South Florida in August, 1996, and a PhD in Spanish Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition from the University of Florida in August, 2001. Her dissertation on The Role of Negative Feedback in Second Language Instruction reflects her interest in classroom-based research to improve the teaching of Spanish and other languages, as well as her research agenda, which centers on the use of diverse types of feedback in the classroom, the teaching of Heritage Spanish and the role of gender in SLA.

Dr. Bell-Corrales has presented at numerous national and international conferences, symposiums and seminars, the most recent of which included:  La violencia femenina en la ciudad en “Rosario Tijeras”: un análisis socio-linguístico at the Conference for the Hispanic Association for Humanities, Seville, Spain in June 2009; Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, Madrid, Spain, June 2006; Estudio Morfosintáctico de Refranes Españoles desde la Perspectiva de la Gramática Verbal at Congreso Internacional de Fraseología y Paramiología, Santiago de Compostela, Spain in September 2006; Negative Feedback in Second Language Instruction:  The Effect of Structured Versus Open-ended Tasks; presented at The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, at the University of Kentucky in October, 2002 and A Qualitative Analysis of Student Responses to Negative Feedback in L2 Spanish, presented at the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2001.