Beatriz Lado

Email Address: beatriz.lado@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone Number: 718-960-8277
Office: Carman Hall, Room 270
Rank: Associate Professor/Linguistics program director

Education

• Licenciatura, University of Valencia (Spain)
• M.A. Northwestern State University
• M.A., Louisiana State University; M.S. & Ph. D., Georgetown University

Biography

Beatriz Lado received her Licenciatura from the Universitat de València, her M.A. in Linguistics from Louisiana State University, and her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University (2008). Before coming to Lehman she was an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego, where she taught Spanish, applied linguistics, and language teaching methods. At Lehman, she directs the Linguistics Program and teaches all levels of Spanish and Spanish linguistics courses. She is also affiliated to LAILaC at The Graduate Center (CUNY), where she teaches courses in applied linguistics and language pedagogy.

Research Interests

Bi/multilingual language acquisition, the interaction between pedagogical interventions and individual differences, language placement, and critical and social justice approaches to language teaching and learning, including exploring the impact that critical approaches to teaching Spanish at the college level has on language minoritized and racialized learners (both Latinxs and non-Latinxs), and specifically on how they develop critical linguistic awareness and negotiate their language ideologies, capital, identities, and investment in the language learning process.