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Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions (2021)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2021). Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions. Hispania, 104(2), 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2021.0045

The purpose of this project was to compare two different COVID-19 Mexican lotería versions by Mexican-American artists Ernesto Quiñonez Curiel and Pinche Raf. Their work was inspired by the most popular traditional lotería set Don Clemente Gallo, cre... Read More about Lotería in the Age of COVID-19: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Two Artistic Visions.

Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts (2021)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., Domínguez, Y., Gooch, S., & Pacheco, A. (2021). Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts. International Journal of Design in Society, 15(1), 25-44. https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/V15I01/25-44

The objective of this article is to examine media representations of charros in Texas and gauchos in Argentina from the 1930s in order to uncover any sociohistorical parallels between these two groups. Two sets of artifacts were analyzed using a soci... Read More about Charros in Texas and Gauchos in Argentina: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Historical Artifacts.

Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation (2021)
Book Chapter
Zapata, G. C., & Ribota, A. (2021). Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation. In C. S. Blyth, & J. J. Thoms (Eds.), Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology (25-46). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800411005-003

In this chapter, we examine the application of the multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design (Cope & Kalantzis, 2015; Kalantzis et al., 2005, 2016) to the design of open educational resources (OER) for the teaching of Spanish as a herit... Read More about Open Educational Resources in Heritage and L2 Spanish Classrooms: Design, Development and Implementation.