Romance Languages and Literatures

Olivia Beggins

Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice, Spanish Language Program

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Olivia Beggins

Ph.D.

Contact

Lyons Hall 307A

Telephone: 617-552-3828

Email: begginsso@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., St. John鈥檚 University, New York
  • M.A., St. John鈥檚 University, New YOrk
  • Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia

Research Interests

  • Spanish Applied Linguistics
  • Spanish Language Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • L2 Learner Investment
  • The Role of Technology in Second Language Acquisition
  • Cognitive and Sociocultural Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
  • Task-Based Language Teaching.

Department

Selected Presentations

  • "An Activity Theory Approach to Learner Participation in the Online, L2 Classroom Context." Paper presented at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference. Boston, MA,聽 March, 2024.聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽
  • with Toth P., "The impact of online instruction on L2 identity and investment in imagined communities." Paper presented at the annual American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Pittsburgh, PA, March 2024.
  • "Measuring student perception on the effectiveness ofauthentic audiovisual materials on Spanish L2 vocabulary acquisition." Paper presented at the annual World Conference of the Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Virtual, August, 2021.
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