Xavier Gutierrez, PhD, MEd, BA
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Dept
- xgutierr@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
I am an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, and I am also the Spanish Language Program Coordinator. I have been teaching at the University of Alberta since 2013.
I was also the Co-Editor-in-Chief, with Dr. Leila Ranta, of Language Awareness, the journal of the Association for Language Awareness.
I was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, where I completed a B.A. in English and German Philology and a M.Ed. in Language Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I also hold a Ph.D. in Second Language Education from the University of New Brunswick.
Research
I am an applied linguist with a research focus on Second Language Education. In particular, I am interested in explicit knowledge representations of language, grammar teaching and learning, Task-based Language Teaching, and teacher education.
Currently I am working on two projects related to Task-based Language Teaching. One of the projects is a program evaluation study about the implementation of a task-based curriculum in the Spanish language classes at the University of Alberta. This project is funded by a grant from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund of the University of Alberta.
The second project I am working on is a collaborative research with my colleagues Bill Dunn and Leila Ranta, from the Faculty of Education, about the role teacher education plays in the adoption of pedagogical innovations such as TBLT by student teachers.
Teaching
I teach courses in Applied Linguistics, mainly about Second Language Education, at the undergraduate and graduate level, and Spanish language courses at the undergraduate level. I supervise graduate students working on topics related to Second Language Education. I also coordinate the Spanish Language Program at the University of Alberta.
In 2017, I was the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (Early Achievement).
Courses
SPAN 378 - Teaching Spanish as a Second Language
Approaches to language teaching, Spanish grammar pedagogy, and specific issues in teaching Spanish structures and skills. Prerequisite: SPAN 300 or 306 or consent of Department. Note: Not open to students with credit in SPAN 478. May be taken in place of SPAN 478 for program requirements.
SPAN 476 - The Acquisition of Spanish
Issues relating to the acquisition of Spanish as a second language, education, and language policies, and language pedagogy in the literature and in practice. Prerequisites: 3 units in SPAN at the 300-level excluding 300 and 306, or consent of Department.
Featured Publications
Adapting textbooks or creating OERs? Different options in the process of transforming multiple language learning programs to a blended learning format
Gutiérrez, X., Kost, C., Le, E. & Nedashkivska, A.
ALD Bulletin. 2024 November; forthcoming
Gutiérrez, X.
Language Teaching Research. 2024 July; 0 (0 (online first)):1-25 10.1177/13621688241263945
William Dunn, Xavier Gutiérrez, and Leila Ranta
In H. Reinders (Ed.), Language Teacher Leadership. Insights from Research and Practice (pp. 229-254). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.. 2023 November; 10.1007/978-3-031-42871-5
Simard, D., Gutiérrez, X.
In P. Garret & J. M. Cots (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness (pp. 205-221). London: Routledge.. 2018 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 20(1), 1-30.. 2017 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
System, 60, 42-54. 2016 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
In H. M. McGarrell, & D. Wood (Eds.) Contact - Refereed Proceedings of TESL Ontario Research Symposium, 41(2), 79-90. 2015 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
Language Awareness, 22(2), 176-191. 2013 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
In K. Roehr and G. A. Gánem-Gutiérrez (Eds.), The metalinguistic dimension in instructed second language learning (pp. 147-169). London: Continuum.. 2013 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35(3), 423-449. 2013 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(1), 20-40. 2012 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
Language Awareness, 20(3), 239-254. 2011 January;
Gutiérrez, X.
The Modern Language Journal, 92(4), 519-537. 2008 January;