Amy VonCanon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Spanish

Education

Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition, University of Iowa
Dissertation: "Just Saying 'No': The Development of Pragmatic Competence in Refusals by Learners of Spanish during Study Abroad"
M.A. Spanish Language and Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
B.A. Spanish; Art History, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

Representative Publications

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2005. Just Saying 'No': The Development of Pragmatic Competence during Study Abroad. ACTFL Annual Meeting. Baltimore.

2005. Just Saying 'No': The Development of Pragmatic Competence during Study Abroad. 16th International Conference on Pragmatics Language and Learning, Bloomington, Indiana.

2003. Students' Perceptions of Pragmatics Pedagogy: Instruction in Spanish Requests. International Society for Language Studies (ISLS). St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

2003. The Effect of Explicit Instruction on Learners' Development of Pragmatic Ability. AATSP Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL