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Le Anne Spino
Le Anne earned her Bachelor’s degree in 2009 at The College of New Jersey. She majored in Psychology (Cognitive) and Spanish and minored in Linguistics and French. Currently, she is working as a Coordinating Assistant to Dr. VanPatten. She develops online activities for the Spanish language textbook Sol y viento and is also designing an online SPN 150 course. In her spare time she enjoys running, traveling, and visiting family on the Outer Banks.
Research Interests
Her research interests include L2 Spanish Processing, Vocabulary Acquisition, Noticing, Verbal Protocol Reactivity, and CALL.
Le Anne's research is divided into two main avenues. She conducts research to study the acquisition of grammatical gender and number for L1 English speakers learning Spanish. She also researches incidental vocabulary acquision with Dr. Aline Godfroid, testing different methodologies to tease apart attention and awarenes, two isomorphic componenets of the Noticing Hypothesis.
Teaching Experience
- Language Methodology Instructor
- Michigan State University
- LLT 307 - Methods of Language Teaching
- Spanish Instructor
- Michigan State University
- SPN 101, 102, 201
- Spanish for Kids Instructor
- Michigan State University (Community Language School)
- English as a Foreign Language
- VenUSA (Mérida, Venezuela)
Recent Pedagogy-Oriented Presentations
- VanPatten, B., Spino, L., Trego, D., & Hopkins, W. (2013, November). Creating proficiency outcomes: The Michigan State University Project. Paper to be presented at ACTFL, Orlando, FL.
- Spino, L. & Trego, D. (2013, November). Reduce, reuse, recycle: Strategies for planning effective immersion classes. Paper to be presented at ACTFL, Orlando, FL.
- Trego, D. & Spino, L. (2013, July) “The Past Does Not Rule Me”: Putting grammar at the service of communication. Paper to be presented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), San Antonio, TX.
- Spino, L. & Inceoglu, S. (2013, May). Spanish and French L2 spelling error correction: Do generic spell checkers help or hinder? Paper to be presented at CALICO, Honolulu, HI.
- Inceoglu, S. & Spino, L. (2013, May). Monitoring online courseware: Students’ behavior and perceptions. Paper to be presented at CALICO, Honolulu, HI.
- Trego, D. & Spino, L. (2012, November). Discovering Grammar: What happens when students make their own rules? Paper presented at ACTFL, Philadelphia, PA.
- Spino, L. & Inceoglu, S. (2012, November). Did they catch that error? Students’ use of spell checkers. Poster presented at ACTFL, Philadelphia, PA.
- Spino, L. & Trego, D. (2012, October). Immersion activities for kids: Maximizing target language use and minimizing prep time. Paper presented at MIWLA, Lansing, MI.
- VanPatten, B., Spino, L., Trego, D., Johnston, S. (2012, October). Click here. The why, what and how of hybrid and blended language courses. Paper presented at the Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA), Lansing, MI
Recent SLA-Oriented Presentations
- Godfroid, A. & Spino, L. (2013, April). Effects of eye-tracking and think-alouds on text comprehension and vocabulary recognition. Poster to be presented at the Michigan State University Eye-tracking Mini Conference, East Lansing, MI.
- Spino, L. (2013, February). Grammatical Gender and Number: The Effects of Increased Time Pressure on Production and Comprehension. Paper presented at AAAL, Dallas, TX.
- Godfroid, A. & Spino, L. (2013, February). Timing Is of the Essence: Disentangling the Roles of Attention and Awareness in L2 Vocabulary Learning. Paper presented at AAAL, Dallas, TX.
- Spino, L. (2013, February). Grammatical Gender and Number: The Effects of Increased Time Pressure on Production and Comprehension. Paper presented at the Second Language Studies Symposium, East Lansing, MI.
- Schmidtke, J., Spino, L., & Lavolette, B. (2012, October). How statistically literate are we? Examining SLA professors’ and graduate students’ statistical knowledge and training. Paper presented at SLRF, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Lavolette, B. & Spino, L. (2012, April). Update on Statistical Literacy of Applied Linguists: Preliminary Results. Paper presented at the Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium, Madison, WI.
- Godfroid, A. & Spino, L. (2011, October). Reading in the experimental laboratory: A comparison of different data collection methods. Paper presented at SLRF, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.