Anna Marie Gates Tapia

Anna Marie Gates Tapia Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION 2011 - present PhD Student in Applied Linguistics Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 2008-2010 Master of Science, Teaching English as a Foreign Language Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1997-1999 Certificate in Fundraising University of California, Irvine 1989-1993 Bachelor of Arts, Sociology Bachelor of Arts, Economics University of California, Santa Cruz

TEACHING EXPERIENCE On-line course instruction Fall 2008 – Instructor, Psychology and Language Learning, Universidad Técnica Spring 2011 Particular de Loja

 Independently developed and delivered a course in second language acquisition theory for undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in K-12 foreign language teaching via a distance education model. Classroom instruction Northern Arizona University, Undergraduate Courses Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant, English 220: Grammar and Usage

Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, English 223: Language in the US

Northern Arizona University, Program in Intensive English  For all courses developed lesson plans and materials, and taught international students provisionally admitted into undergraduate programs. Summer 2013 Instructor, Intermediate Reading Skills and Strategies Instructor, Intermediate Computer Assisted Language Learning Spring 2013 Instructor, High Intermediate Reading and Vocabulary Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Instructor, Intermediate Reading Skills and Strategies Fall 2011 Instructor, Beginning Computer Assisted Language Learning Instructor, Advanced Listening and Speaking

Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador Fall 2008, 2009 Instructor, Second and Foreign Language Acquisition & 2010  Created syllabus, selected texts and taught course in second language acquisition theory for undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in K-12 foreign language teaching. 2004-2006 Instructor, English as a Foreign Language  Developed lesson plans and materials, and taught four language skills courses for undergraduates pursue bachelor’s degrees in a variety of academic fields. Centro Educativo Amauta 2002-2008 Instructor, English as a Foreign Language  Developed lesson plans and materials, and taught listening and speaking to elementary age children. Instructor, Mathematics  Developed lesson plans and materials, and taught arithmetic and mathematical problem solving to elementary age children. WorldTeach 1994-1996 Instructor, English as a Foreign Language  Taught the four skills to undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in K-12 foreign language teaching and to adolescents in afterschool enrichment courses.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) March 2008 to Academic & Administrative Director, English Department, School of July 2011 Education Sciences  Coordinated and implemented academic and curricular planning at the undergraduate and graduate degree level and General English courses for 5,000 students per semester  Managed operations of 4 year degree undergraduate program; 2 year degree masters program  Supervised a staff of 23 tenured professors, 12 adjunct professors, 5 administrative staff November Interim Director, Humanities Department 2010 to  Ensured adequate communication and collaboration between academic, February 2011 administrative/service units campus wide March 2008 to Director, Research and Services English Center July 2011  Oversaw coordination of modern languages courses including Chinese, French, German, Italian and Russian  Administrated professional translation and interpretation unit  Implemented self-access motivation center Centro Educativo Amauta Anna M. Gates Tapia | 3

2001-2008 Founder and Administrative Director  Responsible for the establishment and administration of a K-7 independent elementary school of 70 children.

University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science 1999 - 2001 Assistant Director of Development  Managed of Corporate Affiliates, Alumni and Minority Outreach Fundraising  Identified interests and needs of corporate and community members and provided relevant university information  Served as a liaison for corporate partners and executives  Developed new corporate affiliate services 1998 - 1999 Development Assistant  Organized event logistics  Managed budgets  Coordinated board meetings  Maintained databases

RESEARCH INTERESTS Corpus linguistics Second language reading and writing Discourse analysis of evaluation and stance Vocabulary acquisition and instruction Learner corpus analysis Quantitative research methods

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Publications Journal Articles

Gates Tapia, A. & Biber, D. (in review). Lexico-grammatical stance in Spanish news reportage: Socio-political influences on Que-complement clauses and adverbials in Ecuadorian broadsheets. Revista Española de Linguistica Aplicada.

Book reviews Gates Tapia, A. (2013, November). [Review of the book Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language, by G. Philip]. Corpora, 8, 265-267. doi: 10.3366/cor.2013.0044 Gates Tapia, A. (2013, April 5). [Review of the book Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies: A Practical Guide to Researching Language, by A. Wray & A. Bloomer]. The Linguist List. Projects

June 2013- Sampling and generalizability in quantitative L2 research August 2013 Principal investigator: Luke Plonsky  Code primary L2 studies for sampling characteristics

March 2013- Linguistic Taxonomy of English Web Registers May 2013 Principal investigators: Doug Biber and Mark Davies Grant: National Science Foundation  Assist in the piloting of web registers identification tools

Summer 2012 Linguistic Characteristics of L2 Nurse Discourse Principal investigator: Shelley Staples Grant: Language Learning Dissertation  Coded discourse level phases within nurse-patient interactions

2010-2011 Ecuadorian English Learner Corpus  Designed and spearheaded the creation of a corpus of Ecuadorian student writing  Supervised team of data collection assistants  Created and implemented project budget

Conference Presentations and Workshops Gates Tapia, A. (2014, March). Corpus informed vocabulary learning materials: A study for improving lexical knowledge. Paper presented at TESOL International Convention and English Language Expo. Portland, OR.

Gates Tapia, A. (2013, November). Semantic prosody and collocation: Two approaches for deepening lexical knowledge. Poster presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Provo, UT.

Gates Tapia, A. (2013, October). Corpus-informed vocabulary materials: Does activity type matter? Paper presented at AZ-TESOL State Conference, Tucson, AZ.

Gates Tapia, A. (2013, February). Instruction in semantic prosody: Two approaches for deepening lexical knowledge. Paper presented at The Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference, Flagstaff, AZ. Gates Tapia, A. (2012, February). Lexical bundles in Spanish L1 learner corpus: A comparative look at frequency and function. Paper presented at The Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference, Flagstaff, AZ. Gates Tapia, A. & Izquierdo, N. (2010, October). Ecuadorian English Learner Corpus. Poster session presented at the IX Encontro De Linguística De Corpus E IV Escola Brasileira De Linguística Computacional, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Gates Tapia, A. (2009, September). What does it mean to know a word? Workshop presented at XIII National Congress For English Teachers “Facing Challenges In ELT”, Universidad Católica De Santiago De Guayaquil, Ecuador Anna M. Gates Tapia | 5

Gates Tapia, A. (2009, May). Making English real: The use of corpus data and techniques in the Ecuadorian classroom. Workshop presented at TEFL: Developing Teaching And Learning Competencies, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador. Gates Tapia, A. (2008, July). English For UTPL Faculty. Presentation at Amazing Minds Pearson-Longman invited conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom Gates Tapia, A. (2005, June). Broadening cultural horizons. TEFL Ecuador 2005 National Congress of English Teachers "Language Culture Connections”. Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador. AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS Awards 2014 Graduate Student Government Travel Award, $150 AZ-TESOL Cheryl Walsh Professional Growth Award, $750 2008 Amazing Minds Award, Pearson-Longman, Fully sponsored travel and lodging for a 5 day conference at University of Cambridge, England 2000 Team and Individual Incentive Award, UC Irvine, $730 1999 Individual Incentive Award, UC Irvine, $1,350 Scholarships 2012 Graduate College Education Fund Scholarship, NAU, $1,000 2011 Applied Linguistics Doctoral Award, NAU, $4,000 2010 Professional Development Scholarship Award, UTPL, $6,800

Research Grants 2010 Ecuadorian English Learner Corpus Project, UTPL, $10,000

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Native Language: English Spanish: Highly advanced listening and speaking skills (Common European Framework C2) Spanish: Advanced reading and writing skills (Common European Framework level C1) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE AAAL: American Association of Applied Linguistics TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages FENAPIUPE: Federación Nacional de Profesores de Inglés de Universidades y Politécnicas del Ecuador GSAAL: Graduate Student Association of Applied Linguistics, President, 2014-2015