My research interests relate to the Spanish language classroom and curriculum, particularly issues concerning pedagogy and assessment. I have conducted research comparing students’ and teachers’ perceptions of effective instructional strategies in the foreign language classroom and published those findings in the Modern Language Journal and Hispania (forthcoming). Currently, I have become quite interested in programmatic assessment and the role of letter grades in curriculum design, student placement, and course articulation. I am in the process of analyzing data relative to our students´ oral proficiency as well as their proficiency in the receptive modalities (listening and reading) to examine how they correlate with course grades.

Areas of Specialty

• L2 Spanish language pedagogy
• L2 Spanish language assessment
• Second Language Acquisition
• Applied Linguistics

• Brown, A. (2009). How Spanish teachers and their beginning-level university students perceive FL teaching practices—Ideally and Concretely. Hispania, 92, 3, 550-566.
• Brown, A. (2009). LCTL and CTL students: A demographic and academic comparison. Foreign Language Annals 42, 3, 405-423.
• Brown, A. (2009). Students’ and teachers’ perceptions of effective foreign language teaching: A comparison of ideals. Modern Language Journal 93, 1, 46-60.
• Brown, A. (2008). Effectively educating Latino/a students: A comparative study of participation patterns of Hispanic American and Anglo American university students. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 7, 2, 97-118.