Amaia Olmo López

NAME: Amaia Olmo López

OFFICE:1311 Boromrajakumari Building

EMAIL ADDRESS: amaia.o@chula.ac.th / a.olmolopez@gmail.com

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Spanish Language & Literature
    Faculty of Humanities, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, – 2022
    Field of research: Phonetic acquisition (Spanish as a foreign language): stops, clusters and approximants.
  • M.A. in Phonetics & Phonology
    Menendez Pelayo International University in collaboration with CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain, 2017
  • M.A. in Teaching Spanish language and Literature
    Faculty of Education, Distance University of Madrid, Spain, 2014
  • B.A. in Roman Philology
    Faculty of Humanities, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2014
    Lang. 1: French; 2: Spanish; 3: Portuguese.
  • B.A. in Spanish Philology
    Faculty of Humanities, , Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2013

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Spanish as a foreign language
  • Language acquisition
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Linguistics

COURSES TAUGHT

  • 2233100 Basic Spanish I
  • 2233200 Basic Spanish II
  • 2233300 Intermediate Spanish I
  • 2233344 Writing skills I
  • 2233364 Spanish Composition
  • 2233383 Spanish Culture
  • 2233400 Intermediate Spanish II
  • 2233455 Business Spanish

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Lectorados MAEC-AECID. (2016-2019): Spanish lectureship. Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MAEC) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

  • Olmo López, A. (2017, September). El fenómeno del resilabeo en la enseñanza de español a tailandeses. In Proceedings of the 11th Ramkhamhaeng Seminar on Humanities & Social Sciences. Humanities Academic Seminar (pp.1-16).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

  • Olmo López, A. (2020, January). Wooclap: Engaging students through technology. VI Jornadas ELE Bangkok conducted at Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Olmo López, A. (2019, March). Orientaciones para la enseñanza de la pronunciación de las oclusivas del español a estudiantes sinohablantes a partir del análisis acústico de las oclusivas del chino mandarín (Orientations for pronunciation teaching: teaching Spanish stops to Chinese students based on an acoustic analysis of stops in Mandarin Chinese). IV Jornadas de Formación de Profesores de Español en Hong Kong conducted at Hong Kong University & Edinumen Publishers. Hong Kong.
  • Olmo López, A. (2018, December). Oral expression and interaction in the Spanish as a a foreign language classroom. Spanish teacher training conducted at Ramkhamhaeng University. Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Olmo López, A. (2018, December). How to teach pronunciation. Spanish teacher training conducted at Ramkhamhaeng University. Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Olmo López, A. (2018, January). Análisis de errores fonéticos en estudiantes tailandeses de ELE y propuestas de corrección (An analysis of pronunciation errors in Thai students of Spanish Foreign Language: proposals for correcting). V Jornadas de ELE en Bangkok conducted at Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Olmo López, A. (2017, December). Autoevaluación como instrumento de mejora en la adquisición del componente fónico del español (Self-assessment as an improvement tool for phonetic acqusition in Spanish Foreign Language).
    VIII Encuentro Práctico de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera (EPPELE) conducted at Instituto Cervantes at New Delhi. New Delhi, India.
  • Olmo López, A. (2017, September). El fenómeno del resilabeo en la enseñanza de español a tailandeses (Resyllabification in Spanish for Thai students of Spanish Foreign language). Humanities Academic Seminar conducted at Ramkhamhaeng University. Bangkok, Thailand.