Upcoming Conferences and Latest Activities!
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Presenting "Teaching Modern Greek: Navigating challenges and gaining insights" at 2024 NCOLCTL Conference, Chicago, April 18-21, 2024.
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Presenting "Instructional Strategies in the L2 Classroom: Teaching Language for Specific Purposes" at the 55th NeMLA Annual Convention, Boston, March 2024.
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Presenting "Εφαρμογή εκπαιδευτικού σεναρίου στη διδασκαλία της ελληνικής ως ξένης με δραστηριοκεντρική (Task-based) προσέγγιση και με την αξιοποίηση των ψηφιακών εργαλείων" at Δεύτερο Διαδικτυακό Συνέδριο με θέμα "Σύγχρονες πρακτικές στη διδαδκαλία της Ελληνικής ως Δεύτερης/ Ξένης Γλώσσας", January 2024.
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Serving at Promotion, Tenure, Standards Committee and Radical Hospitality Committee, St. Ambrose University.
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New Article: Kouti, M. (2022). “Los trastornos mentales en la clase de Español de las Ciencias de la Salud”. In Espiral: Revista de Educación y Didáctica del Español, no. 29, pp. 41- 46. https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/bulgaria/publicaciones-materiales/publicaciones/espiral-normas2.html
Maria Kouti, Ph.D.
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Dr. Maria Kouti is a Professor of Linguistics and Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Latinx Studies at St. Ambrose University, IA.
Prior to coming to St. Ambrose University, she taught Spanish language, Spanish dialectology, Modern Greek language, Modern Greek culture and literature at the University of Missouri –St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
At St. Ambrose, Dr. Kouti teaches several language courses at the undergraduate level, including courses such as Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish Second Language Acquisition, Medical Spanish , Advanced Spanish Grammar, etc.
She has published and presented at the state, national, and international level.
Welcome!
Linguistics, and science in general, would not exist without questions, and the following questions in particular inform and drive my research and teaching: What do languages sound like? How do their sounds change over time and why? How do babies and children learn a language? Why do we make errors when we speak a foreign language? What does it mean to have a foreign accent?
Throughout this site you will find links to my materials, which demonstrate the work I have done over the years in the areas of teaching, research, and service.Explore my work below and contact me directly to learn more. Maria
“A neglected aspect of learning for world citizenship is foreign language instruction. Seeing how another group of intelligent human beings has cut up the world differently[...] gives a young person essential lesson in cultural humility”
M. Nussbaum (2010, p. 90)
