Allison Larkin

Associate Teaching Professor

Director of SMU-in-Madrid, Associate Department Chair

Email

ajlarkin@smu.edu
Office Location

Clements 339
Phone

214-768-1321

Education

M.A., The Catholic University of America

 

Allison Larkin began teaching at 夜色王朝in 2014 and is the Associate Department Chair, an Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish, and the Director of . From 2020-2023, she served as the department’s Director of Second Language Assessment. Prof. Larkin is the designer of the First-Year Spanish online curriculum, and served as the departmental coordinator of First-Year Spanish from 2015-2020. She received the Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award in 2018. She loves teaching Spanish language and culture at all levels.

 
Areas of Interest
  • Technology in Language Education
  • Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy
  • Language Assessment & Curricular Development
 
Presentations
  • “Using Juried Assessment to Improve Cultural Competence.” Co-presented with Dr. Dayna Oscherwitz and Dr. Yan Cooksey. AAC&U Conference. Feb. 9-11, 2023. New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • “Addressing Challenges in Multi-section Online Courses.” ACTFL 2019 Convention, Nov. 22-24, 2019. Washington, D.C.                    
  • “Building a Post-Secondary World Languages Online Curriculum: A Case Study.” ACTFL 2018 Convention, November 16-18, 2018. New Orleans, Louisiana.
 
Courses Taught
SPAN 1401: Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 1402: Beginning Spanish II
SPAN 1401 Online: Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 1402 Online: Beginning Spanish II
SPAN 1502: Beginning Spanish with Intensive Review
SPAN 1601: Beginning Spanish with Intensive Review (Madrid only)
SPAN 2302: Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 3355: Spanish Conversation (Main Campus and in Madrid)
SPAN 3358: Advanced Spanish (Main Campus and in Madrid)


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