On April 22, 2022, Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award for her poster entitled 'Celebrating Language Variation in RGV Classrooms' at the Engaged Scholar Symposium on Thurs. Apr. 21. This poster builds on our March AAAL 2022 presentation. This poster describes the process of planning, designing, and creating online teaching modules based on the CoBiVa. Each teaching module includes background information on the topic, links to resources, an explanation of...

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At our first in-person conference in years, CoBiVa traveled to the 2022 meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Christoffersen and undergarduate student Ms. Carolina DeAnda presented "Citizen Sociolinguistics at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Community-Based, Community-Driven Sociolinguistic Corpus with Resources for the Public" on a panel on citizen sociolinguistics.  The CoBiVa is a part of citizen...

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In December, 2021, Dr. Katherine Christoffersen together with M.A. student Ms.Kimberly Regalado published an article entitled "Toda lengua es válida aquí en esta clase: Translanguaging pedagogy and critical language awareness in sociolinguistics classes on the U.S.-Mexico border" in the Journal of Bilingual Education Research and Instruction. This article is a part of a special issue organized by the Center of Bilingual Studies (CBS)...

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