José Luis Escorcia

Research/Teaching Interests

• Second Language Acquisition and sociolinguistics

• Pedagogy and learning strategies

• Medical Spanish

• English as a Second Language

• Bible study

Education

M.A, Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005

M.A, Teaching English as a Second Language, Universidad Del Norte, Barranquilla (Colombia), 1996

B.A, English and Spanish, Corporación Universitaria de la Costa, Barranquilla (Colombia), 1992

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Elementary Spanish I & II (SPA 1301 & 1302)

• Intermediate Spanish (SPA 2310)

• Special Studies in Foreign Language (MLC 1v99)

Selected Publications

Textbook

Co-authored with Gillian Moss, Luz Stella Villareal, and Mariela Maldonado. Building English Proficiency-Stage 1. ESP Reading Text Course. Barranquilla, Colombia: Instituto de idiomas, Universidad del Norte, 1998.