Dr. Paola Guerrero Rodríguez

Ph.D., University of Florida, 2021

Paola.guerrero@ttu.edu

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Biographical Information

 Paola Guerrero Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University. Dr. Guerrero Rodríguez’s research and publications focus on heritage language education, defining a heritage language as one often learned in home environments, such as Spanish in the United States. Her work explores the preservation, transmission, and teaching of these languages. Additionally, Dr. Guerrero Rodríguez investigates the relationships between language use and societal structures, examining how language reflects and shapes social systems in social media and interpersonal interactions.

Areas of Research

• Spanish as a heritage language
• Heritage language pedagogies
• Mixed-classroom dynamics
• Language and educational technology

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

 Guerrero-Rodríguez, P.  (2024). Siftr as a Socio-affective Tool in the Spanish Heritage Language Classroom: Exploring the Effects of Landscape Identity. International Journal of Multilingualism.

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P., Pascual y Cabo, D., & Prada, J. (2024). When heritage speakers study in their heritage countries: An exploration of identity dynamics and their implications for study abroad program success. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education.

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P. (2023). Telecollaboration: From linguistic insecurity to linguistic confidence in Spanish as a heritage language. Computer Assisted Language Learning.

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P., Lomicka, L., & Lord. G. (2022). SIFTing through the development of intercultural competence at home and abroad. Foreign Language Annals. doi: 10.1111/flan.12617

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P., & Long, A. (2022). Exploring Instructor Feedback Provision in Heritage Language and Mixed Heritage-Second Language Classrooms. Spanish Heritage Language Journal 2(1), 1-36.

Prada, J., Guerrero-Rodriguez, P., & Pascual y Cabo, D. (2020). Heritage language anxiety in two Spanish language classroom environments: A comparative mixed methods study. Heritage Language Journal, 17(1), 92-113.

Book Chapters

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P. & Long, A. (2022). Corrective feedback and positive assessments in the mixed classroom: What are students’ perceptions? In P. Bayona & García-Martín, M. (Eds.) Mixed classroom pedagogies. Multilingual Matters. 

Guerrero-Rodríguez, P., Ojeda, A. & Pascual y Cabo, D. (2021). Issues and Practices in Community-based Experiential Learning for Heritage Speakers in the United States. In S. Montrul & Polinsky, M. The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics. London: Cambridge.

Elola, I., Padial, A., & Guerrero-Rodríguez, P. (2021) Herramientas sociales en la clase de español como lengua de herencia. In D. Pascual y Cabo, & Torres, J. (Eds.) El español como lengua de herencia. London: Routledge.

Book Reviews

Guerrero-Rodriguez, P. Review of Translanguaging in higher education. Beyond monolingual ideologies (2017), by Mazak, Catherine M. & Carroll, Kevin S. (Eds.) E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages 5(2) (December 2018): 114-118.  

Guerrero-Rodriguez, P.& Pascual y Cabo, D. Review of The Acquisition of Heritage Languages (2016), by Silvina Montrul, Heritage Language Journal 14 (April 2017): 94-99.

Awards and Honors

Hispanic-Serving Institution Fellows Program, Texas Tech University. 2023-2024

Faculty Research & Support Funding for Diversity Program, Texas Tech University. 2022
Arts and Sciences Course Development Scholarship, Texas Tech University. 2022

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of Florida, 2021. 

Graduate Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Course Development Grant, Center for European Studies, University of Florida. 2020.

Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Course Development Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Florida. 2020. 

Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Florida. 2019-2020.

Award for Cooperative Leadership in Teaching Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Florida. 2019.

Helen DeVitt Jones Fellowship. Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University. 2017-2018. 

Award Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Basilio (summa cum laude), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. 2010.