Mariche Bayonas

Education

2004 Ph.D. Spanish Applied Linguistics Indiana University, Minor in Linguistics 

1999 M.A. TESOL & Applied Linguistics Indiana University 

1997 B.A. English Linguistics and Literature University of Seville, Spain

Courses Taught

• SPA 446/546: Seminar in Spanish Linguistics (Spanish Pragmatics)
• SPA 610: History of the Spanish Language
• SPA 589: Issues in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
• SPA 519: Second Language Acquisition
• SPA 605: Spanish Sociolinguistics
• LLC 600: Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages
• SPA 610: History of the Spanish Language 
• SPA 301: Spanish Language and Cultures 
• SPA 310: Advanced Spanish Language and Culture for Heritage Speakers
• SPA 311: Views of the Hispanic World through Intermediate Conversation
• SPA 313: Views of the Hispanic World through Intermediate Conversation Abroad
• SPA 332: Introduction to Spanish Culture
• SPA 342: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• SPA 411: Cultural Expressions in the Hispanic World Through Advanced Conversation
• SPA 415: Advanced Spanish Composition
• SPA 445: Spanish Phonetics

Research

Her areas of research are the acquisition of pronunciation (phonetics and phonology) sociolinguistics and teaching languages online. She has published numerous articles in these areas and is reviewer of several journals. She is also an executive member of Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Association and of the Association of Hispanic Humanities.

Selected Publications

Alonso-Marks, E. & Bayonas, M. (2023). Politeness Strategies in the Greetings of Spanish Learners in Virtual Language Learning Environments. Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 12 pp. 387- 403. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.12.2.7045 

Bayonas, M. (2023). “Comparative Analysis of Online vs. Face-to-Face Second Language Learning”. ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, 22, 199-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/elia.2022.i22.07 

Bayonas, M. (2020). “La enseñanza de español por internet: una aventura llena de incertidumbres.” La tradición cultural hispánica en una sociedad global. Ed. By K. Kietrys, M. Montero Curiel, C. Sotomayor, and A. Winkel. Universidad de Extremadura, 221-233. 

Bayonas, M. (2017). Textual Enhancement and the Acquisition of the Spanish Present Subjunctive Form. EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics 2, 14-22. 

García-Bayonas, M. (2014). The development of Spanish oral proficiency during a 5-week study abroad program. Comunicación, Cognición, Cibernétic@: 31er Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 399-408. 

García Bayonas, M. (2008) Perception of English Vowels as First and Second Language. RAEL, 7, 79-89.