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Russell Simonsen

Professional Certifications

• Certified Healthcare Interpreter™ (Spanish-English). Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters.
• Spanish Teacher, K-12, Code 365. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research

Books

• VanPatten, B. & Simonsen, R. (2022). . American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Journal Articles & Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Simonsen, R., & Chacón, D. A. (2024). . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-12.
• Simonsen, R., & VanPatten, B. (2024). The First-Noun Principle. In J. Barcroft & W. Wong (Eds.), (pp. 198–211). Routledge.
• Simonsen, R. (2023). . In Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education (pp. 127-140). Springer.
• Simonsen, R. (2023). . Language, 99(1), e18–e34.
• Simonsen, R. (2022). . Language Teaching, 55(2), 156–162. 
• Simonsen, R. (2021). . Hispanic Studies Review, 5(2), 39–54.
• Simonsen, R. (2019). An analysis of the problematic discourse surrounding ‘authentic texts’. Hispania, 102(2), 245–58.

Media Publications

• Simonsen, R. (2023, May 20). . Los Angeles Times.

Paper Presentations

• Simonsen, R. (2024, October). Examining the representativeness of Spanish collocations with corpus and experimental data. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Nebraska at Omaha. 
• Simonsen, R. (2019, October). Subject Raising over Experiencers Seems to Me to Be Marginally Grammatical in Spanish. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso.
• Simonsen, R. (2019, September). Documenting Spanish Learners Ability to Relate Word Order and Verb Type in Real Time. Second Language Research Forum. Michigan State, East Lansing.
• Simonsen, R. (2019, February). We’re Far from the Shallow (Structure Hypothesis) Now: Exploring the Depths of Non-native Spanish Sentence Processing. Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA). University of Minnesota.
• Simonsen, R. (2018, June). Revaluing Texts from a Post-structuralist Perspective in Second Language Instruction. 100th Annual AATSP Conference. Salamanca, Spain.
• Simonsen, R. (2017, October). Using Bare Argument Ellipsis and Fronted Dative Objects to Understand the Syntax of Psych Verbs. Presented at Minnesota Syntax and Psycholinguistics Lab. University of Minnesota.
• Simonsen, R. (2017, July). Establishing Level-appropriate Input as the Priority in Text Selection. 99th Annual AATSP Conference. Chicago.
• Simonsen, R. (2017, April). Challenging the Notion of Authenticity in Language. 26th Conference on Spanish in the United States. Brigham Young University, Provo.
• Simonsen, R. (2017, April). The Promotion of Cultural Manufacturing in The World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. University of Minnesota Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference. University of Minnesota.
• Simonsen, R. (2016, October). L1 English Influence on the Acquisition of Spanish Psych Verbs. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Georgetown University, Washington DC.
• Simonsen, R. (2016, September). The Acceleration of the Periphrastic Future in US Spanish: Evidence Against Contact-induced Language Change. Linguistics Association of the Southwest (LASSO) Conference. University of Texas at Austin.
• Simonsen, R. (2016, March). Variable Future Expression in Bilingual Texas between 1822 and 1836. University of Minnesota Graduate Student Conference. University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
• Simonsen, R. (2015, November). Working Toward an Understanding of /u/ fronting in Spanish through Acoustic Analysis. 4th Luso-Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Sánchez Vicente, A., Simonsen, R., & Tejedo-Herrero F. (2015, April). Apuntes para una caracterización del dialecto castellano en el siglo XVII a partir de un corpus de cartas privadas. Kentucky Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference. University of Kentucky.
• Caballero, J. A. & Simonsen, R. (2014, April). Using Visual Representations to Teach Preterite and Imperfect. Department of Spanish and Portuguese TA Professional Development Workshop. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Poster Presentations

• Simonsen, R., & Chacón, D. A. (2019, March). A Cross-sectional Study of Non-native Spanish Sentence Processing. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Simonsen, R., Chacón, D. A. (2019, March). Lexical Prediction and the Processing of Argument Structure in English Psych Verbs. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Simonsen, R. (2018, October). On the Status of Parecer as a Modal Verb. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. University of Texas.
• Simonsen, R. (2018, January). Where will Teaching Take You? Artistic poster created for the education-themed art exhibition Beyond the Bell. University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
• Paesani, K., Menke, M., and Simonsen, R. (2017, October). Analyzing Foreign Language Instructional Materials through the Lens of the Multiliteracies Framework. CARLA Open House. University of Minnesota.

Professional Affiliations

• 2020-present: Member of Ohio Foreign Language Association

Education

• Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2020)
• M.A. Spanish (Spanish Linguistics concentration), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015)
• B.S. Spanish Education (with honors), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010)