Professor Daniel Woolsey Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Modern & Classical Languages Hope College 257 Columbia Avenue Holland, MI 49423 Phone: (616) 395-7269 Fax: (616) 395-7559 Email: woolsey@hope.edu Office: Martha Miller Center 228 Office Hours: Professor Woolsey's Calendar Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington ........................................... April 2006
Primary areas: Foreign language education, second language acquisition.
Secondary areas: Critical literacy, bilingual education, CALL.
Dissertation: “Second language acquisition of the Spanish verb estar with adjectives: An exploration of contexts of comparison and immediate experience.”
Directors: Kimberly Geeslin, Ph.D., Martha Nyikos, Ph.D.

M.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL ............................................. May 1998
B.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL ..................................... September 1996

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Second language acquisition, acquisition of the Spanish copula.
Foreign language pedagogy, critical literacy, bilingual education.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Second language acquisition, Hispanic linguistics.
Foreign language teaching methods, critical literacy, bilingual education, CALL.
Spanish language, all levels.

LANGUAGES

Bilingual in Spanish. Raised and educated abroad in Santiago, Chile, 1979 to 1992.
Intermediate-high level of proficiency in French. Wheaton-in-France, Summer 1996.

PAPERS & WORKS IN PROGRESS

Woolsey, D. (in press). From theory to research: Contextual predictors of ‘estar + adjective’ and the study of the SLA of Spanish copula choice. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Woolsey, D. (in press). Me dijeron que el español es más fácil de aprender que otras lenguas, pero ahora que estoy estudiando ‘ser’ y ‘estar’, me parece muy difícil. ¿De dónde viene la idea de que un idioma es más fácil que otro? In J. Ewald & A. Edstrom (Eds.), El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas. Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Woolsey, D. (2006). Development of learner use of 'estar + adjective' in contexts of comparison within an individual frame of reference. In N. Sagarra & A. J. Toribio (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 181-191). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Woolsey, D. (2006). Controlling contexts and clarifying intent: Instrument design and the study of the SLA of estar with adjectives. In C. A. Klee & T. L. Face (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (pp. 86-99). Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Woolsey, D. (2006). Second language acquisition of the Spanish verb estar with adjectives: An exploration of contexts of comparison and immediate experience. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Adjective type and the SLA of the Spanish copula: Implications for research and theory.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Parecer as the third copula verb in the second language learner’s developing system.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Reactions to referents and the use of estar with adjectives.

Geeslin, K. & Woolsey, D. (in progress). Assessing accuracy of the Spanish copula: A re-analysis using discourse context.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Critical literacy and the foreign language classroom: Present constraints and future possibilities.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Teaching language through content: An action-research study.

Woolsey, D. (in progress). Integrating service-learning into the fourth-semester Spanish curriculum: Student reactions to volunteering in a local ESL program.

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Woolsey, D. (2007, October). Re-thinking adjective type in the study of the SLA of estar in ‘copula + adjective’ contexts. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2007, University of Texas, San Antonio.

Woolsey, D. (2007, June). From theory to research: Contextual predictors of ‘estar + adjective’ and the study of the SLA of Spanish copula choice. 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Hamburg.

Woolsey, D. (2006, October). Parecer as an indicator of positive development in the learner’s Spanish copula system. 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Western Ontario.

Woolsey, D. (2006, October). Second language acquisition of the Spanish verb estar with adjectives: An exploration of contexts of comparison and immediate experience. Second Language Research Forum 2006, University of Washington, Seattle.

Woolsey, D. (2006, June). The development of learner use of ‘estar + adjective’ in contexts of speaker reaction to immediate experiences with the referent. American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Montreal, QC.

Woolsey, D. (2005, November). Development of learner use of ‘estar + adjective’ in contexts of comparison within an individual frame of reference. 8th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, Penn State University.

Woolsey, D. (2005, July). Overcoming challenges to assessing appropriate use of the Spanish copula. 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Woolsey, D. (2004, October). Showing what learners can do: Creating clear contexts for the appropriate use of estar. 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages, University of Minnesota.

Geeslin, K. & Woolsey, D. (2004, May). Assessing accuracy of the Spanish copula: A re-analysis using discourse context. American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, Portland, OR.

Woolsey, D. (2003, September). Input simplificado: Teoría y aplicación. Octavo congreso de didáctica del español, Indianapolis, IN.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Woolsey, D. (2008, March). Going the 80/20: Reflections from teaching language through content. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Dearborn, MI.

Woolsey, D. (2007, October). Journaling in the Spanish classroom: Language, content and reflection. Michigan World Languages Association conference, Lansing, MI.

Woolsey, D. (2007, March). Critical literacy practices for the Spanish classroom. Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY.

Woolsey, D. (2006, October). Critical literacy practices and second language learner proficiency. Michigan World Languages Association conference, Lansing, MI.

Woolsey, D. (2006, March). Critical literacy practices in the foreign language classroom. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Chicago, IL.

Woolsey, D. (2005, May). Halliday, Fairclough, Gee and Luke in the Spanish classroom. Researching and Teaching Language in These Critical Times, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Woolsey, D. (2004, November). Webquest use and design for the intermediate/advanced language learner. Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Woolsey, D. (2004, April). Critical literacy and the foreign language classroom. Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Dearborn, MI.

Woolsey, D. (2003, November). Contributions of bilingual education research to foreign language instruction: Past, present and future. Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association conference, Indianapolis, IN.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Associate Instructor Teaching Award (Spanish), Indiana University, 2003-2004.
Peart Fellowship, Language Education, Indiana University, 2004-2005.
Achasa Beechler Scholarship, Language Education, Indiana University, Spring 2004.
Professional Development Fellowship, Language Education, IU, 2004-05, 2005-06.
Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research Award, Indiana University, Spring 2005.
Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Organization, IU, Spring 2004.