CURRICULUM VITAE
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CRISTINA R. SENN
P ERSON AL B ACKG ROU N D
CITIZENSHIP: Canadian
PLACE OF BIRTH: Buenos Aires, Argentina
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, Italian
O BJEC T IVE
A position where I can utilize my native language, experience, training
and skills.
E XPER I EN CE
Presently (July 2007)
Foreign Language Institute of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON.
SPANISH INSTRUCTOR
Summer 2003
Centre Linguistique du College de Jonqui re
Ottawa, ON.
SPANISH INSTRUCTOR
Summer 2001
Language Institute
Saskatchewan Centre for International Languages (SCIL)
University of Regina
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CRISTINA RITA SENN
Regina, SK.
SESSIONAL LECTURER, SPANISH
2000 - present
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
TEACHER ASSISTANT GRADUATE STUDENT. SPANISH
PART-TIME GRADUATE STUDENT PROFESSOR. SPANISH
1977-1990
MCBA., Argentina.
Buenos Aires, AR
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
Taught Physical Education in Primary, Secondary schools and summer
camps.
E DUCATION
2000 - present
Department of Modern Languages
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
PhD. SPANISH (Fifth year):
Courses: Semantics and Psycholinguistics.
- Research Topic: Experimental data and analysis of non-native
competence: Spanish clitic pronouns
MA. SPANISH
Courses: Linguistic Theory and The acquisition of Spanish as
a second language. Literature. Psycholinguistics.
- Research Topic: Research Methodology and the determination
of non-native competence in Spanish.
1996-2000
Department of Modern Languages
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
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B.A. HON. SPANISH.
Courses: Hispanic and Spanish-American Literature, History of the
Spanish Language, Theory of Literature, Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish
Syntax, Contrastive Grammar, Translation from English into Spanish.
Fall 1999: Ethno-linguistics and Problems of Argentinean Literature at
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina;
through the International Exchange Programs offered by the University
of Ottawa.
1976-1978
Argentina 2000 Institute of Higher Education-Teacher Training
Bs. As., AR
NATIONAL PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Courses: Anatomy, Philosophy, General Psychology, Pedagogy,
.
Physiology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Education,
Sociology, Didactics.
R ESEARCH
1999-2002:
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Department of Modern Languages and Literature
University of Ottawa.
Research project: The role of Morphology in the acquisition of
Syntax.
Research project:
Principal Investigator: Prof. J. M. Liceras
P UBLICATIONS
Articles in refereed journals
Senn, C., K.T. Spradlin, R. P rez-Tattam, M. Sikorska, J.M. Liceras, R.
Fern ndez Fuertes y S. Mu iz Fern ndez 2005 Sobre la naturaleza de
los problemas que presenta la adquisici n de los art culos y los
pronombres tonos del espa ol. J.M. Oro, J. Varela Zapata y J.
Anderson (eds.) Ling stica aplicada al aprendizaje de lenguas.
Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicaci ns da Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela.
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J. M. Liceras, K. T. Spradlin, C. Senn, R. P rez-Tatam and A.
Tremblay. [Submitted]. The role of the computational properties of
determiners and clitic pronuns in the acquisition of L2 Spanish.
J. M. Liceras, K. T. Spradlin, C. Senn, A. Cuza and C. Mongeon.
[Submitted]. The morphology and directionality of deverbal
compounds in non-native Spanish: A grammar-specific or an input-
processing deficit?
J. M. Liceras, C. Mongeon, A. Cuza, C. Senn and K. T. Spradlin. 2001.
La adquisici n en el aula sin input formal: los compuestos exoc ntricos
de las interlenguas del espa ol. Es-ESPASA: Revista de Profesores
Investigaci n. Ling stica. N mero 1.
Articles reviews
Foreign Language Annals. Vol. 38 N.2, Summer 2005
- Diana Frantzen y Sally Sieloff Magnan, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Anxiety and the True Biginner-False Beginner Dynamic in Beginning French
and Spanish Classes, pp. 122-123
Boletin n.34, Mayo de 2006. ASELE
Foreign Language Annals. Vol 36 N.1, March 2003
-Adki, Janice M., The Ohio State University, Foreign Language Textbook
Activities: Keeping Pace with Second Language Acquisition Research, pp. 57-
64
Bolet n n.29, Niviembre de 2003. ASELE
Foreign Language Annals. Vol 35 N.5 September/October 2002
-Olivares-Cuhat., Gabriela. Cleveland State University, Learning Strategies
and Achievement in the Spanish Writing Classroom: A Case Study (561-67)
Bolet n n.28, Mayo de 2003. ASELE
The Modern Language Journal. Vol 86 N.3, Autumn 2002.
-Blair E. Bateman, Promoting Openness toward Culture Learning:
Ethnographic Interviews for Students of Spanish, pp. 318-330
Bolet n n. 27 Noviembre 2003. ASELE
Foreign Language Annals. Vol 35 N.3, May/June 2002
-Tastsuya Fukushima, University of Arkansas, Promotional Video
Production in a Foreign Language Course, pp. 349-355
Bolet n n.26, Mayo 2003. ASELE
The Modern Language Journal. Vol. 85, NO. 3, Autumn 2001
- Maggie A. Broner, St. Olaf College and Elaine E. Tarone, University of
Minnesota, Is It Fun? Language Play in a Fifth-Grade Spanish Immersion
Classroom.
Bolet n n 25, May 2002, ASELE
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Foreign Language Annals. Vol. 33, NO. 6, November/December 2000
- Carmen Chaves Tesser, University of Gerogia, and Donna Reseigh Long,
Ohio State University, The Teaching of Spanish Literature: A Necessary
Partenership between the Language and Literature Sections of Traditional
Departments.
Bolet n n 24, May 2001, p. 92-95. ASELE
Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 33, Number 4, July/August 2000
- Carolyn Gascoigne Lally, First Language Influences in Second Language
Composition: The Effect of Pre-Writing, pp. 428-432.
Bolet n n 23, November 2000, p. 95. ASELE
Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 33, Number 4, July/August 2000-
Ana M. Brenes Garc a, Contemporary Spain: Lessons for the Business
Spanish Student, pp. 421-426
Bolet n n 23, November 2000, pp. 95 96. ASELE
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
May 2005: Ontario Graduate Scholarship Progtram
May 2004: SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
April 2003: Travel grant from the Academic Development Fund Committee
of the University of Ottawa
2002 - 2003: Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program
Spring 2002: Travel grant from the Academic Development Fund
Committee of the University of Ottawa
2002 - 2005: University of Ottawa Graduate Admission Scholarship (PhD)
2001 - 2002: University of Ottawa Graduate Admission Scholarship (M.A.)
2001 - 2003: University of Ottawa Graduate Excellence Scholarship
2000 - 2001: Joseph-Marie Quirion Fellowship
Ontario Student Opportunity Grant
Merit Scholarship
1999 - 2000: Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
Merit Scholarship
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1998 - 1999: Merit Scholarship
1997 - 2002: Dean's Honour List
CONFERENCES
PAPERS READ AT SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES
2007: Cristina Senn, J. M. Liceras. Early and late bilingualism: resumptive pronouns in adult
L2 Spanish. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6), University of Hamburg,
Hamburg, May 29 to June 2, 2007.
2007: Cristina Senn. La alternancia del dativo en el espa ol de biling es adultos L1 espa ol /
L2 ingl s. Di logos Ontarianos, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, March 2, 2007.
2006: Cristina Senn. Principios gramaticales y de procesamiento en construcciones relativas
con pronombres reasuntivos. Di logos Ontarianos, University of Toronto, Toronto, March 10,
2006.
2005: Cristina Senn. Grammar and processing of resumptive pronouns in monolingual and
bilingual Spanish speakers. FHIS AT UBC, Vancouver, September 29-30, 2005.
2004: Cristina Senn. El procesamiento y la representaci n de los pronombres reasuntivos
que forman parte de las construcciones relativas. Asociaci n de Esudiantes Graduados del
Programa de Espa ol del Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Moderanas de la Facultad
de Artes de la Universidad de Ottawa, Ottawa, March 12 - 13, 2004.
2003: J. M. Liceras, K. T. Spradlin, C. Senn, M. Sikorska, R. Fern ndez Fuertes and E.
Alv rez. Second language acquisition and bilingual competence: The Grammatical Features
Spell-out Hypothesis. European Association of Second Language Acquisition (EUROSLA-
13). Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 19 - 21, 2003.
2003: J. M. Liceras, S. Perales, R. P rez-Tattam, M. Sikorska, C. Senn and T. Spradlin.
Finiteness and optionality in child and adult L2 Spanish. Annual Conference of the
Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL 2003), Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, June 1- June 4, 2003.
2003: Senn, C., K. T. Spradlin, R. P rez-Tattam, M. Sikorska and J. M. Liceras. Sobre la
naturaleza de los problemas que presenta la adquisici n de los art culos y los pronombres
tonos del espa ol. XXI Congreso Internacional de AESLA. University of Santiago de
Compostela, Lugo, Spain, April 10-12, 2003.
2002: R. P rez-Tattam, C. Senn, E. Nicol s and J. M. Liceras. Determiners in child L1 and
child L2 Spanish: More on the morphological versus the syntactic deficit debate. IASCAL-
SRCLD, University of Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, July 16-21, 2002.
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2002: J. M. Liceras, E. Nicol s, R. P rez-Tattam, C. Senn, A. Tremblay and I. Winnicki. Los
art culos y los pronombres tonos del espa ol no nativo: con qu evidencia contamos para
determinar si nos encontramos ante un problema morfol gico o ante un problema
sint ctico? Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH 2002),
University of Toronto, Toronto, May 25-28, 2002.
2001: J. M. Liceras, C. Mongeon, A. Cuza, C. Senn and K. T. Spradlin, The morphology and
directionality of deverbal compounds in non-native Spanish: a grammar-specific or an
input-processing deficit? 4thConference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as
First and Second Languages, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagine, October 11-14,
2001.
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
2004: Senn, C, R. P rez-Tattam. El valor de las intuiciones sobre la alternativa de c digo
para diagnosticar el nivel de competencia en la segunda lengua. 40th. Congress of the
Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH 2004), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 29 -June 1,
2004.
2004: Senn, C. [In press]. El procesamiento y la representaci n de los pronombres reasuntivos
que forman parte de las construcciones relativas. Proceedings of Jornadas de Investigaci n de los
estudiantes graduados del programa de espa ol, 12 y 13 de marzo del 2004. University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Canada.
2003: Senn, C., K. T. Spradlin, R. P rez-Tattam, M. Sikorska and J. M. Liceras. Sobre la
naturaleza de los problemas que presenta la adquisici n de los art culos y los pronombres
tonos del espa ol. Proceedings of the XXI Congreso Internacional de AESLA. University
of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain.
2002: R. P rez-Tattam, C. Senn, E. Nicol s and J. M. Liceras. Determiners in child L1 and
child L2 Spanish: More on the morphological versus the syntactic deficit debate. IASCAL-
SRCLD, University of Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, July 16-21, 2002.
2002: J. M. Liceras, E. Nicol s, R. P rez-Tattam, C. Senn, A. Tremblay and I. Winnicki. Los
art culos y los pronombres tonos del espa ol no nativo: con qu evidencia contamos para
determinar si nos encontramos ante un problema morfol gico o ante un problema
sint ctico? Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Hispanists (CAH 2002),
University of Toronto, Toronto, May 25-28, 2002.
REFERENCES:
Professor Juana M. Liceras,
Department of Modern Languages,
University of Ottawa.
70 Laurier East
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
Phone: 613-***-**** Ext. 3742 (direct)
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Professor Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Associate Professor
The University of Western Ontario
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University College 154, London, ON, Canada N6A 3K7
Phone: 519-***-**** x 85864
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Professor Eduardo Andujar,
Pedagogical Assesor,
Foreign Language Institute of Ottawa.
115 Bisson Street
Gatineau, Quebec J8Y 5M2
Phone: 819-***-****
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