Faculty

Bachelor of Arts Degree • School of Arts and Sciences

Foreign Language Major

Faculty

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. 2012. Una polifonía lingüística: lenguas mediterráneas en contacto en Nápoles. In E. Ridruejo Alonso, T. Solías Arís, N. Mendizábel de la Cruz & S. Alonso Calvo (eds),  Tradición y progreso en la lingüística general (pp 373-392). Valladolid, Spain: Universidad de Valladolid.

Thomas, J.A. & Lotfi Sayahi. 2012. A Quantitative Analysis of Code-switching in the Arabic-Romance Kharjas. Journal of Language Contact. 5.2, 1-17.

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

Thomas, J.A. & Culyer, Linda. 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., &  Sayahi, L. (2005). Morphophonological and semantic adaptation of Arabismsin 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