Language assessment in multilingual settings Innovative practices across formal and informal environments

Dr. Eva Rodríguez González is an Associate Professor in Hispanic Linguistics and Coordinator of the Spanish Second Language Program at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico (Ph.D. University of Kansas; M.A. University of Kansas, University of Santiago de Compostela). She supervises Spanish Second Language Teaching Assistants. She has extensive experience in language teaching, researching and designing curriculum for Spanish-English & English-Portuguese learners in different contexts and levels of proficiency at the University level. Her main areas of research are 1) classroom-based language learning and 2) cognitive approaches to language acquisition. She teaches courses in Language Teaching Methodology, Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. She is particularly interested in foreign language proficiency assessment and program evaluation. She has published articles on issues in foreign language lexical and grammatical acquisition, feedback in foreign language speaking and writing and Spanish-English codeswitching..
Dr. Rosita L. Rivera is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. She directs the Basic English Language Program and the Language Laboratory at UPRM. She teaches ESL and applied linguistics courses. She supervises ESL Teaching Assistants. Her PhD is in Curriculum and Instruction from the Pennsylvania State University. She is also a TESOL Specialist certified by the Pennsylvania State University. She has extensive experience designing, teaching, and assessing curriculum for bilingual (Spanish-English) learners in different contexts. She has published articles in the areas of language assessment and instructional design of bilingual (Spanish-English) programs for ESL learners. Her current research interests and projects are in the areas of curriculum design and assessment of ESL learners at different proficiency levels and instructional design of online ESL courses.