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Elisa

Gironzetti

Associate Professor, Spanish Applied Linguistics

Interests: 

Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition

Units: 

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Contact: 

elisag@umd.edu

2204 Jiménez Hall

Role(s): 

Faculty

Website: 

Personal website

About: 

Elisa Gironzetti earned a doctorate in Spanish Language Teaching (University of Alicante, 2013) and a Ph. D. in English Applied Linguistics (Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2017). Her research focuses on humor, pragmatics and language teaching, and Hispanic applied linguistics. Her articles and chapters were published in Discourse Processes, Intercultural Pragmatics, Humor, Journal of Literary Semantics, Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor, and Journal of Spanish Language Teaching. She is the founding editor of E-JournALL, an open-access scholarly publication in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, associate editor of the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, consulting editor of HUMOR - International Journal of Humor Research, and director of publications of ASELE (Asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera). She recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: Metodología, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza and is currently conducting experimental research on humor integrating eye-tracking, facial action coding, and discourse analysis.