Daniel J. Villa

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Professor of Spanish


Department of Languages and Linguistics

Active member, NMSU Hispanic Caucus

E-mail: dvilla@nmsu.edu

Box 30001, Dept. 3L
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-1230 Fax: (505) 646-7876

TERMINAL DEGREE

Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1992. Romance Languages, specialization in Spanish Linguistics

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Villa Cresap, Daniel. 1997. El desarrollo de futuridad en el español. México, D.F.: Grupo Eón.

In progress:

Villa, Daniel. A Handbook of Spanglish

Edited collections

Villa, Daniel and Susana Rivera-Mills, eds. 2005. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24 (1,2).

Villa, Daniel, supplement ed. 2001. Studies in language contact: Spanish in the U.S. and the Caribbean. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20(2).

Villa, Daniel, supplement ed. 2001. Studies in Language Contact: Indigenous Languages in the Americas. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20(1).

Villa, Daniel, collection ed. 2000. Studies in Language Contact: U.S. Spanish. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics 19(2).

Villa, Daniel, ed. 1996. First Annual Conference on Spanish for Native Speakers Working Papers. Las Cruces: New Mexico State University.

Villa, Daniel, guest ed. 1993. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 12 (1,2).

Submitted for 2009:

Villa, Daniel J., and Susana V. Rivera-Mills, eds. Special collection on language maintenance and loss. Spanish in Context.

In progress:

Rivera-Mills, Susana V., and Daniel J. Villa, eds. Spanish of the Southwest: A Language in Transition. An edited volume under consideration by Iberoamericana/Verveurt.

Professional publications

Villa, Daniel J. (accepted). “General versus Standard Spanish: Establishing Empirical Norms for the Study of U.S. Spanish”. Español en Estados Unidos y en otros contextos: Cuestiones sociolingüísticas, políticas y pedagógicas. Ed. Jennifer Leeman and Manel Lacorte. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Verveurt.

Mora, Marie T., Daniel J. Villa and Alberto Dávila. 2006. “Language Shift and Maintenance among the Children of Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence in the Census for Spanish Speakers and Other Language Minorities”. Spanish in Context 3. 239-254.

Mora, Marie T., Daniel J. Villa and Alberto Dávila. 2005. “Language Maintenance among the Children of Immigrants: A Comparison of Border States with Other Regions of the U.S.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24: 127-144.

Villa, Daniel, and Jennifer Villa. 2005. “Language Instrumentality in a Border Region: Implications for the Loss of Spanish in the Southwest”. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24: 169-184.

Villa, Daniel. 2005. “Back to Patrás: A Process of Grammaticization in a Contact Variety of Spanish”. ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Ed. James Cohen, Kara McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 2310-2316.

Villa, Daniel. 2005. “Aportaciones de la lingüística aplicada crítica al estudio del español de los EEUU”. Contactos y contextos lingüísticos: El español en los Estados Unidos y en contacto con otras lenguas Ed. Luis Ortiz López and Manel Lacorte. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 301-311.

Villa, Daniel. 2004. “No nos dejaremos: Writing in Spanish as an Act of Resistance”. Latino/a Discourses on Language, Identity & Literacy Education. Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 85-95.

Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Como pez en agua: The ‘border’ from a different point of view”. Río Bravo A Journal of Borderlands 2. 1-12.

Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Heritage Language Speakers and Upper-Division Language Instruction: Findings from a Spanish Linguistics Program”. AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Ed. Heidi Byrnes and Hiram Maxim. Boston: Heinle and Heinle. 88-98.

Villa, Daniel. 2003. “Looking After the Spanish Legacy”. Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication & Education, January. 13-17.

Villa, Daniel. 2002. "Integrating Technology into Minority Language Teaching and Preservation Efforts: An Inside Job". Language Learning and Technology 6. 92-101.

Villa, Daniel. 2002. "The Sanitizing of U.S. Spanish in Academia". Foreign Language Annals 35. 222-230.

Villa, Daniel. 2001. "A Millennial Reflection sobre la nueva reconquista". Southwest Journal of Linguistics 20. 1-13. (Presidential Address)

Villa, Daniel. 2000. "Languages Have Armies, and Economies, Too: The Impact of U.S. Spanish in the Spanish-speaking world". Southwest Journal of Linguistics 19. 143-154.

Villa, Daniel. 1999. "El Ragman". Southwest Reader for Intermediate Spanish, ed. Carole Byrd and Adriana Candia García. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 77-80.

Villa, Daniel. 1999. "Memorias de Fairbanks". Southwest Reader for Intermediate Spanish, ed. Carole Byrd and Adriana Candia García. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 82-85.

Villa, Daniel and Jennifer Villa. 1998. "Identity Labels and Self-Reported Language Use: Implications for Spanish Language Programs". Foreign Language Annals 31.4: 505-16.

Villa, Daniel. 1998. "Bilingual Pedagogy and Border Environmental Issues." Business Review Yearbook, ed. Grace Ann Rosile. Slippery Rock, PA: International Academy of Business Disciplines. 223-28.

Villa, Daniel. 1997. "Course Design and Content for a 'Grammar' Class in an SNS Program". La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoría. Ed. M. Cecilia Colombi and Francisco Alarcón. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath. 93-101.

Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et al. 1997. "Discourse Processing in Machine Translation of Dialog". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-97-309. New Mexico State University: Computing Research Laboratory.

Villa, Daniel. 1996. "Choosing a 'Standard' Variety of Spanish for the Instruction of Native Spanish Speakers in the U.S." Foreign Language Annals 29.2:191-200.

Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et. al. 1996. "Use of Discourse Models in Machine Translation of Dialog". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-96-294. Las Cruces: Computing Research Laboratory.

Rodríguez Pino, Cecilia, and Daniel Villa. 1994. "A Student-Centered Spanish-for-Native- Speakers Program: Theory, Curriculum Design and Outcome Assessment". AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Ed. Carol Klee. Boston: Heinle and Heinle. 355-373.

Wiebe, Janyce, David Farwell, Daniel Villa, et al. 1994. "Adapting Machine Translation Systems to Processing Dialog: A Feasibility Study". Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-94-275. Las Cruces: Computing Research Laboratory.

Rodríguez, Alfred, and Daniel Villa. 1990. "Pedro de Urdemalas de Lope de Vega: El Disfraz Varonil y el 'Trickster'". Romance Notes, XXXI.1: 53-57.

Submitted:

Villa, Daniel J. “Y nos vamos patrás: Back to an Analysis of a Supposed ‘Calque’”. Spanish of the Southwest: A Language in Transition. Ed. Susana V. Rivera-Mills and Daniel J. Villa. Iberoamericana/Verveurt.



FUNDED RESEARCH

2000-2003. NMSU internal funding for dissemination of research, $6,000.

1997-1999. "Widening Our World". Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Jon Hunner and Mr. David Blobner, Gadsden High School. U S West Foundation, $60,000.

1996-1997. Principal Investigator. Technology for Language Skills Development; International Research for Spanish for Professionals. NMSU internal funding, $18,000.

1996-1997. Co-PI with Dr. Jon Hunner. "Preserving Community". State of New Mexico, Children, Youth and Families Dept., $10,000.

1996-1997. Co-PI with the Workgroup on Critical Pedagogy. "Voices in Harmony: Critical Approaches to Pedagogy." The Center for Teaching Excellence, Eastern New Mexico University, $2,500.

1995-1996. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "An Integrated Discourse Processing Component for the Machine Translation of Dialog". National Security Agency (NSA), $156,000.

1995-1996. PI. "Spanish for the Spanish-Speaking Professional". State of New Mexico, $39,600.

1995. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "An Integrated Discourse Processing Component for the Machine Translation of Dialog". National Security Agency (NSA), $49,900.

1994-1995. Co-PI with Drs. David Farwell and Janyce Wiebe. "Use of Discourse Models in Machine Translation of Dialog". NSA, $151,000.

1994-1995. PI. "Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers of Spanish: New Directions for the 21st Century". Conference funded by the College of Arts and Sciences, $2,500.

1993-1994. Co-PI with Dr. David Farwell and Dr. Janyce Wiebe. "A Feasibility Study of the Machine Translation of Spoken Dialog". NSA, $100,000.

1991-1992. PI. "Spanish-English Bilingualism in New Mexico". UAF Faculty Grant, $5,000.

1989-1990. PI. "Dialectal Variation in New Mexican Spanish". University of New Mexico Challenge Assistantship, $6,300.


RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Establishing U.S. Spanish as a Variety of General Spanish: Implications for the Teaching of Spanish in the U.S.” Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, April 21-24, 2007.

“Spanglish according to Ilan Stavans: Interpreting popular views of language”. Voces, Palabras e Imágenes de Fronteras: Espacios Geográficos y Metafóricos de Literatura, Lingüística y Cinematografía. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 5-7, 2007.

“U.S. Spanish as a variety of General Spanish: Establishing empirical norms”. XXI Conference on Spanish in the U.S. Arlington, VA, March 15-18, 2007.

Co-presented with Susana V. Rivera-Mills. “Spanish maintenance and loss in the U.S.: New analytical perspectives”. XXI Conference on Spanish in the U.S. Arlington, VA, March 15-18, 2007.

“In the eye of the storm: Southwest Spanish and the creation of ethnic identity”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXV. Laredo, TX, September 29-October 1, 2006.

“Looking to Einstein for inspiration: A panchronic approach to language change”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIV. Lubbock, TX, October 7-9, 2005.

Co-presented with Devin Jenkins. “The Hispanic population in the Southwest: An update on demographic changes”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIV. Lubbock, TX, October 7-9, 2005.

“Spanglish: No, it's not a new language. A linguistic perspective on language contact”. Invited lecture, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, April 12, 2005.

“Spanish in the United States: a brief history of the language and its current status”. Invited lecture, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, April 11, 2005.

“Pos aquí truenan mis chicharrones: Changes in the status of Spanish in one region of the Southwest”. XX Congreso, El Español en los Estados Unidos, Chicago, IL, March 24-26, 2005.

“Stigmatized by whom? The relationship between language researchers and their findings”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXIII. New Orleans, LA, September 10-12, 2004.

Co-presented with Marie Mora and Alberto Dávila. “Language Shift and Maintenance among the Children of Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence in the Census for Spanish Speakers and Other Language Minorities”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXII. Edinburg, TX, October 17-19, 2003.

“Literacy vs. Literacy Skills: Goals for Writing Instruction for Spanish Heritage Language Speakers”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXII. Edinburg, TX, October 17-19, 2003.

“New Approaches to Heritage Language Instruction: The Mixed Experience Classroom.” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 2002 Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, November 22-24, 2002.

“The Use of Economic Theories for Understanding Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the U.S.” 56th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention. Scottsdale, AZ, October 10-12, 2002.

“U.S. Spanish: Issues in Language Planning”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXI. Pasadena, CA, October 4-6, 2002.

Co-presented with Teresita Ronquillo. “The Distribution of Tener, Deber and Querer as Modals in New Mexican Spanish”. Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXXI. Pasadena, CA, October 4-6, 2002.

“Turning Your Passion Into Tenure and Promotion”. NMSU Promotion and Tenure Workshop. Las Cruces, NM, September 21, 2002.

"U.S. Spanish: Perspectives from Critical Applied Linguistics". XIX Congreso Internacional del Español en los Estados Unidos. San Juan, PR, April 17-20, 2002.

"Spanish on the U.S. Border: Spanglish, pocho, mocho or what?" Works in Progress lecture series, Center for Latin American and Border Studies, NMSU, February 20, 2002.

"What is 'good' Spanish? The inescapable polemic of a 'standard'". American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 2001 Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, November 11-17, 2001.

Co-presented with Guy García. "The Intergenerational Maintenance of Spanish: Emerging Trends". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXIX. Albuquerque, NM, September 28-30, 2001.

"El mito del español estándar ". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXIX. Albuquerque, NM, September 28-30, 2001.

Discussant for the child language and creolization session at the symposium Towards a Unified Framework in Developmental Linguistics. University of Tulsa, OK, April 6-8, 2001.

"A Millennial Reflection sobre la nueva reconquista" (Presidential Address). Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXVIII. Puebla, México, October 13-15, 2000.

"Languages have armies, navies or economies: the emergence of new standard varieties in Southwestern Spanish". American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 9th Northeast Regional Conference, Providence, RI, September 22-24, 2000.

"El español 'estándar' en los EEUU: hacia una definición de él". The Eighteenth National Conference on Spanish in the United States. Davis, CA, April 6-8, 2000.

"Languages have armies, navies or economies: the emergence of new standard varieties in Southwestern Spanish". American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 9th Northeast Regional Conference, Rhode Island, NH, September 22-24, 2000.

"Languages Have Armies, and Economies, Too: The Impact of US Spanish in Latin America". Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, January 12-15, 2000.

Co-presented with Millie Smallcanyon. "Rainbow Children: How We Teach Each Other About Maintaining Our Heritage Languages". The National Conference on Heritage Languages in America, Long Beach, CA, October 14-16, 1999.

"Identity and Motivation for Spanish Language Study in a Border Region". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXVIII. San Antonio, TX, October 1-3, 1999.

Co-presented with Millie Smallcanyon. "Rainbow Children: A Case Study of Successfully Reversing Language Shift". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXVIII. San Antonio, TX, October 1-3, 1999.

"Cuentos del Varrio: A Grass-Roots Approach to Reversing Language Shift". The Seventeenth National Conference on Spanish in the United States. Miami, FL, March 11-13, 1999.

"Bilingual Pedagogy for Border Environmental Issues". International Business and Ecology: The Unbroken Circle. October 15-18, El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juárez, México. (Presented in Juárez.)

"Toward an understanding of Spanish loss and maintenance in the U.S.: An interdisciplinary approach". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XVII. Tempe, AZ, October 9-11, 1998.

Co-presented with Dr. John R. Van Ness. "Reconstructing the placita of Pajarito and the J.B. Jackson legacy in New Mexico". J.B. Jackson and the American Landscape, Albuquerque, NM, October 1-4, 1998.

Co-presented with Dr. Jon Hunner. "Preserving Community". Southwest Oral History Association, Albuquerque, NM, April 30-May 2, 1998.

Co-presented with Dr. Jon Hunner. "Cuentos del Varrio". The National Council on Public History, Austin, TX, April 16-19, 1998.

"NMSU/High School Collaboration in Oral History". Identities, Borders and Orders: Rethinking Area Studies, Las Cruces, NM, March 23-25, 1998.

"The Instrumentality of Spanish in a U.S.-Mexico Border Region." 16th Conference on Spanish in the United States, Albuquerque, NM, February 12-14, 1998.

Co-presented with Pauline Staski and Jon Wall. "Workshop on Instructional Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Youth". New Mexico Council for the Social Studies. Albuquerque, NM, October 24-25, 1997.

"Sanitizing U.S. Spanish". Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Los Angeles, CA, October 3-5, 1997.

"Oleada: A New Approach to Language Instruction Through Multilingual Text Processing and Analysis". Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom 97, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Calgary, Canada, June 14-19, 1997.

"Creating Meaningful Teaching Together". Western Social Science Association, 39th Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM, April 23-26, 1997.

Co-presented with Philip Bernick. "OLEADA: An Integrated Multilingual Software System for Language Instructors, Learners and Translators". Border Walking: A Bilingual Special Education Conference. Las Cruces, NM, October 23-25, 1996.

"Linguistic Pedagogy: Chew 'Em Up and Spit 'Em Out". Linguistic Association of the Southwest XXV, Baton Rouge, LA, October 11-13, 1996.

"The Creation of Grounded Theory for Teaching Minority Language Students". 2nd Annual Conference on Spanish for Native Speakers, "Building Communities: Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers". Las Cruces, NM, July 12-13, 1996.



RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Curriculum development for community-based language instruction for professionals.

  • Language loss and maintenance of Spanish in the U.S.

  • The implementation of technology in student-centered language classes.

  • Theory, curriculum development and outcome measurement for Spanish for Native Speakers' programs.

  • Issues in language contact in the Americas.

  • Inter-institutional collaboration on the integration of secondary and post-secondary pedagogy.



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