Foreign Language Faculty

Foreign Language Faculty

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John (Juan) A. Thomas, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish

Biography

Juan A Thomas, Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics  (University at Albany, 2006); Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (MIT,  1992)

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Research Interests:

Languages in contact; attitudes in Second Language Acquisition; phonology; philology (Hispanic, Italian, Galician)

Languages Spoken:

Spanish, English, Italian, Galician-Portuguese, French, German (reading knowledge); Latin (reading knowledge)

Selected Publications

Edited volume:

Westmoreland, Maurice and Juan Antonio Thomas (eds). 2008. Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. vii+ 161 pages.

Articles: 

Thomas, J.A. & Lotfi Sayahi. 2012. A Quantitative Analysis of Code-switching in the Arabic-Romance Kharjas. Journal of Language Contact. 5.2, 262-278.

Thomas, J.A. 2011. How Neapolitan produces double consonants from Spanish singletons. Ianua: Revista Philologica Romanica. 11, 31-42.

Thomas, J.A. & Linda Culyer. 2011. Health Care Students' Attitudes toward Language Study: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in a Small New York Community. Language Association Journal, 62.2, 39-61.

Thomas, J.A. 2011. Does Mi vida loca Inspire Students to Learn Spanish? In R. Goldberg & W. White (Eds), People, practices, and programs that inspire. Buffalo, NY: NYSAFLT. 

Thomas, J.A. 2010. How do I satisfy the General Education Language Requirement? University Students' Attitudes Toward Language Study. Foreign Language Annals 43.3,  531- 551.

Thomas, J.A. 2009. Hispanisms in Neapolitan: Loanwords as Indicators of Past Social Contact. Forum Italicum 43.2,  433- 452.

Thomas, J.A. 2008. Introduction In Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. v-vii.

Thomas, J.A. 2008. ‘Bueno’ a Pragmatic Castilianism in Galician In Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 131-139

Thomas, J. A. 2008. Reflexiones metalingüísticas acerca del voseo costarricense. Spanish in Context. 5:2; 182-195.

Thomas, J.A. 2007. Teaching Intermediate College Level Spanish in New York State High Schools: A Year of Observations. Language Association Journal. 58.3. 6-9.

Thomas, J.A. 2007. Comprehension of L2 videos: Does what works for French in Action work for Destinos? Language Association Journal. 58.1. 12 –15.

Thomas, J.A. 2007. The use of gheada in three generations of women from Carballo, A Coruña. In Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. J. Holmquist, A. Lorenzino, and L. Sayahi, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 61-73.

Thomas, J.A. 2005. La divergencia entre actitudes y conducta lingüísticas: la gheada gallega y la formación de un registro culto oral. In Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. L. Sayahi and M. Westmoreland. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 54 – 66.

Thomas J.A., &  Lotfi Sayahi. 2005. Morphophonological and semantic adaptation of Arabisms in Galician.  Cahiers linguistiques d’Ottawa, 33, 23 –42.

Courses Taught at Utica College

SPA 101 Elementary Spanish I
SPA 102 Elementary Spanish II
SPA 115 Medical Spanish
SPA 202 Intermediate Spanish II
SPA 227 Spoken Spanish I
SPA 300 Spanish for Professors
SPA 327 Spoken Spanish II
SPA 337 Spanish Composition and Grammar Review
SPA 347 Spanish Culture and Civilization
SPA 404/604 Introduction to Spanish Applied Linguistics