Stephen Fafulas

Just returned from an exceptional GURT 2014 conference and weekend in D.C. with colleagues and researchers interested in Usage-Based approaches to language and language learning.

I received great feedback on both ongoing research projects:

Fafulas, Stephen. “Multifunctionality and Layering in First and Second Language Grammars: Acquisition and Use of Simple Present and Present Progressive forms in Spanish & English.” Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). Washington, D.C. March 16.

Killam, Jason and Stephen Fafulas. “An Exploration of the Acquisition of Complex Syntax in L2 Spanish.” Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). Washington, D.C. March 14.

I am director of the East Carolina University SoCIOLing Lab which is interested in the study of diverse language communities, especially the growing Hispanic population in the region.

Great experience at this year’s SLINKI conference and good feedback on my presentation: “Dialect variation and progressive constructions in Spanish”.

Very proud to see two of our undergraduate students, both members of the SoCIOLing Lab, present data from our ongoing research project on the emerging Spanish in eastern NC. Way to go Mario and Briceida!!

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/foreign/blog/2014/02/11/604/

On February 8, Mario Becerra and Briceida Rodriguez, who are completing a BA in Hispanic Studies and are student members of the SoCIOLing (Study of Community Involvement and Outreach & Linguistics) Lab, presented the poster ‘A sociolinguistic analysis of morphosyntactic phenomena in the Spanish of Pitt County: A pilot study’ at the SLINKI (Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina) Conference held at Appalachian State University. Under the mentorship by Dr. Stephen Fafulas and Dr. Ricard Viñas-de-Puig, the students summarized the results of the research project in which they investigated the expression of future and clitic doubling constructions by native Spanish speakers from Pitt County.

I recently graduated from the ECU Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy and have been funded for my project entitled, “Bridging the Gap: Bilingual Education and Community Engagement.”

EOSA graduation with my mentor Kirk St. Amant

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