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Dr. Kathleen Tacelosky

Kathleen Tacelosky

Professor of Spanish

Email: tacelosk@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6255

Office Location: Humanities 310-B

Expertise:
Spanish Language and Linguistics

Research & Practice Areas:
The intersection of grammatical gender and sociocultural gender in Spanish and how it is taught and learned; Transnational Education, specifically the education of return migrant children and youth in the Mexican context.

  • Fulbright Scholar (TEFL). Preparing Mexican Teachers to Teach Transnational (U.S.-Mexican) Students. Zacatecas, Mexico, January – June, 2018.
  • Fulbright Scholar (Linguistics). Puebla, Mexico 2009-2010.
  • Researcher and Consultant for the Secretariat of Education, Zacatecas Mexico (2019-2021).
  • Reviewer – Hispania, the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).
  • Reviewer Fulbright teaching awards (2016, 2017, 2018).

Publications

Course Materials:

Tacelosky, Kathleen. (Editor). (2023). Atención educativa a la comunidad transnacional. Lebanon Valley College. Wrote, designed and coordinated a 7-module course for use in Teaching Training Colleges as requested by the Mexican Secretariat of Education. Shared through Creative Common License.

Book chapters:

Tacelosky, Kathleen. (2022). Children of return migrants crossing the linguistic and cultural border in the Mexico-United States context. In I. Coronado & A. Josiowicz (Eds.), Children on the borders. University of Arizona Press. Chapter 1.

Tacelosky, Kathleen. (2022). Language as boundary, language as bridge: The linguistic paths of children of return migrants in Mexican schools as reported by adults. In S. Kasun & I. Mora Pablo (Eds.), Theorizing transnational youth identities crossing the US-Mexican border: Bridging culture, language, and schooling. Routledge. pp. 91-109.

Peer-reviewed articles:

Tacelosky, Kathleen. (2021). Heritage Spanish Speakers (Back) in Mexico: Educating U.S.-Raised Children in Mexican Schools. Spanish as a Heritage Language, 1(2), 121-142.

Tacelosky, Kathleen.  (2021) “Migración de retorno y escolaridad en México: Atención educativa a la población transnacional.”Anales de Antropolgía, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 49-57). http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/72236

 

Conference Presentations

Empowering Change: Language Justice and Inclusivity in Spanish-language Education. AATSP(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Portland, Oregon. June 27-29, 2024.

Desafiando el patriarcado: El uso del genérico femenino en clases de español (Challenging the patriarchy: Use of the feminine generic in Spanish Classes) Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos (International Conference on Literarture and Hispanic Studies) Oaxaca, Mexico. March 10-12, 2024

Don’t misgender your mangos: Drawing on expressions of gender in English to inform second language education of grammatical gender languages. Challenging the Binary: Non-Binary, Genderqueer, and Gender-Neutral Language. London. (Attended virtually) June 13-15, 2023

Gender, Language, and Equity: Alternatives to the so-called Masculine Generic in Spanish Language Classrooms. AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Salamanca, Spain June 25-29, 2023.

Transnational youth identities through Anzaldúan frameworks: Bridging culture, language, and schooling at the US-Mexican border Panel Member. American Education Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA November 2022.

The linguistic experiences of Spanish Heritage Speakers in Mexican schools: reconciling expectations and abilities. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Pittsburgh, PA March 2022

Heritage speakers (back) in Mexico: U.S.-raised children in Mexican public schools. Panel accepted for presentation at the 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Albuquerque, February, 2020.