David Sánchez-Jiménez

Associate Professor, Spanish, Humanities Department

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4764-0470 David Sánchez Jiménez obtained his B.A. in Spanish Philology in 2001 and his M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language in 2006 from the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language in 2014 from the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid, Spain. He has taught Spanish language and Spanish Linguistics in various universities and academic institutions in Spain, the Philippines, Hungary and the US. In 2014, he received the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship grant in Colgate University. His research interests include the rhetorical organization of academic discourse; interculturalism in the rhetoric and sociopragmatic texts written in the second language; cognitive process involved in writing; and the learning of Spanish orthography.

Contact

718-260-5018

Academic Interests

1.Rhetorical functions of citations in academic writing;

2.Rhetorical organization of the academic discourse;

3.Interculturalism in the rhetoric and sociopragmatic texts written in the second language;

4.Corpus linguistics applied to discursive features of genre analysis

5.Cognitive process involved in writing;

6.Acquisition of Spanish orthography as a foreign language;

7.Influence of affective factors in the learning of Spanish as a foreign language; and

8.Uses of learning strategies in the design of didactic materials.