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Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books (2024)
Journal Article
Mesa Morales, M., & Zapata, G. C. (2024). Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books. International Journal of Literacies, 31(2), 57-76. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/cgp/v31i02/57-76

This work explores the incorporation of children’s books into university second language (L2) Spanish instruction for the development of students’ critical multimodal literacies and meaning making. Twenty-three learners’ collaborative analysis of aut... Read More about Digital Multimodal Composing in Beginning L2 Spanish Classes: Student-Created Children’s Books.

Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes (2023)
Journal Article
Ewurama, O., & Zapata, G. C. (2023). Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes. Applied Language Learning, 33, 58-70

This study investigates the effectiveness of the PACE approach (Adair-Hauck & Donato, 2002) for grammar teaching in beginning (novice mid/high) second language (L2) Spanish classes. Even though research has reported instructional benefits for PACE in... Read More about Grammar as concept: The implementation of the PACE model in Beginning Spanish classes.

“PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube (2023)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2023). “PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube. Information, Medium, and Society: Journal of Publishing Studies, 21(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18848/2691-1507/cgp/v21i02/1-15

This article explores the participatory extension of humor in social media in connection with Burn’s idea of produsage. Specifically, this work offers a discursive analysis of viewers’ comments on the viral YouTube video Kitten Zoom Filter Mishap to... Read More about “PURRfection”: The Participatory Extension of Humor on YouTube.

Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom (2023)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C. (2023). Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom. International Journal of Pedagogy and Curriculum, 30(1), 17-35. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7963/CGP/v30i01/17-35

This article explores the enactment of inclusive pedagogical practices in an intermediate, Spanish-as-a-secondlanguage mixed writing class in an R1 university in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this work examines how the use of auth... Read More about Self-Discovery and Healing in Nepantla: Multimodality and Learning by Design in a Mixed Spanish University Classroom.

Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students (2022)
Journal Article
Zapata, G., Moyna, M. I., & Miller, M. (2022). Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 9(1), 122-139. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905x.15.1.263

This case study focuses on an interdisciplinary educational experience in which university Pharmacy and Humanities early and late Spanish-English bilinguals were paired to translate questions related to sociobehavioral aspects of medication use. This... Read More about Interprofessional learning to enhance Spanish communication skills in Latinx pharmacy students.

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.

The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes (2020)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. C., & Ribota, A. (2021). The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 16(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2020.1738937

This article investigates the incorporation of identity texts grounded in the multiliteracies framework Learning by Design to second language (L2) instruction in required Spanish classes at a university in the Southern United States. In particular, i... Read More about The instructional benefits of identity texts and learning by design for learner motivation in required second language classes.