Inmaculada Gómez Soler
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Inmaculada Gómez Soler is an Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies. Inma holds a primary degree in English Philology. She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Second Language Acquisition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States). Before joining SALIS in 2020, she worked at the University of Memphis for over 7 years where her research trajectory was recognized through the Early Career Research Award in 2017.
Inma’s research program lies at the interface between second language acquisition, heritage speaker bilingualism, and language pedagogy. Her most recent projects examine how migration affects the process of language acquisition and language attrition as well as the factors that contribute to heritage language maintenance within the school context and the role that teachers play in this process. This research has received both internal (Faculty Research Grant - University of Memphis) and external funding (Research Priorities Initiative Grant - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). She has published extensively on these topics in top journals in the field and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals. She is also a member of the editorial board of the book series Current Issues in Bilingualism (Language Science Press).
She welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in the areas of second language acquisition, heritage speaker bilingualism, language pedagogy and language teacher education.
Inma’s research program lies at the interface between second language acquisition, heritage speaker bilingualism, and language pedagogy. Her most recent projects examine how migration affects the process of language acquisition and language attrition as well as the factors that contribute to heritage language maintenance within the school context and the role that teachers play in this process. This research has received both internal (Faculty Research Grant - University of Memphis) and external funding (Research Priorities Initiative Grant - American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages). She has published extensively on these topics in top journals in the field and has served as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals. She is also a member of the editorial board of the book series Current Issues in Bilingualism (Language Science Press).
She welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in the areas of second language acquisition, heritage speaker bilingualism, language pedagogy and language teacher education.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | A. de Prada Perez, I. Gomez Soler & N. Feroce (2021) 'Variable Future-Time Expression in Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Second Language Learners'. Languages, 6 (4). [DOI] | |
2021 | Gómez Soler, I.;Fuentes, R. (2021) 'Navigating a policy vacuum in the New Latino Diaspora: Teaching Spanish as a heritage language in Tennessee high schools'. Foreign Language Annals, 54 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2018 | Gómez Soler, I. & Pascual y Cabo, D. (2018) 'On Focus and Weight in Spanish as a Heritage Language'. Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, 31 (2):437-466. [DOI] | |
2018 | Fuentes, R. & Gómez Soler, I. (2018) 'From Policy to Practice: Spanish Instructors' Implementation of Spanish Language Reforms'. Hispanic Studies Review, 3 (1):78-100. | |
2018 | Gómez Soler, I. & Tecedor, M. (2018) 'Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Training: A Contrastive Analysis of Trainers and Trainees'. Hispania (AATSP), 101 (1):38-54. [Link] | |
2017 | Fuentes, R. & Gómez Soler, I. (2017) 'Foreign language faculty’s appropriation of an academic publishing policy at a US university'. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39 (3):195-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2017.1344243 | |
2017 | Lenz, S., Gómez Soler, I., Dell'Aquilla, J. & Martinez Uribe, P. (2017) 'Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Assessments for Use in Counseling Research'. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 50 (4):224-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2017.1320947 | |
2016 | Lenz, A. S., Balkin, R. S., Gómez Soler, I., & Martínez, P (2016) 'Development and Evaluation of a Spanish-language Version of the Relational Health Indices'. Psychological Assessment, 28 (5):e62-e69. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000170 | |
2016 | Morales-Reyes A. & Gómez Soler, I. (2016) 'Transfer and Semantic Universals in the L2 Acquisition of the English Article System by Child L2 Learners'. Language Acquisition, 23 (1):57-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2015.1067318 | |
2016 | Gómez Soler, I. & Pascual y Cabo, P. (2016) 'Syntactic Reflexes of Information Structure in Heritage Spanish: Evidence from Psych-Predicate Constructions'. IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 54 (4):291-317. [DOI] | |
2015 | Gómez Soler, I. (2015) 'The logical problem of second language acquisition of argument structure: Recognizing aspectual distinctions in Spanish psych-predicates'. International Journal of Bilingualism, 19 (6):627-645. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006914527185 | |
2015 | Pascual y Cabo, D. & Gómez Soler, I. (2015) 'Preposition Stranding in Spanish as a heritage Language'. Heritage Language Journal, 12 (2):186-209. | |
2015 | Gómez Soler, I. (2015) 'Acquisitional Patterns of Spanish Anticausative se: The End of the Road'. Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, 28 (2):349-381. https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.28.2.01gom | |
2014 | Gómez Soler, I. (2014) 'Beyond Interfaces: Pragmatic Development vs. Syntactic Deficiencies in the L2 Acquisition of Reverse Psychological Predicates'. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 4 (4):494-525. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.4.4.04gom | |
Inmaculada Gómez Soler 'From Policy to Practice: University Instructors’ Implementation of Spanish Language Reforms'. . | ||
Inmaculada Gómez Soler 'Heritage Speakers of Cuban Spanish'. . | ||
Inmaculada Gómez Soler 'Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish'. . | ||
2022 | Gómez Soler, I. (2022) 'Engaged Learning as a Pathway Towards Supporting Hispanic Students at Urban Universities'. Urban Education, . [DOI] | |
2018 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2018) 'Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Training: A Contrastive Analysis of Trainers and Trainees’ Perspectives'. Hispania, . | |
2018 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2018) 'On focus and weight in Spanish as a heritage language'. Revista Española De Lingǘıstica Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, . | |
2017 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2017) 'Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of assessments for use in counseling research'. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, . | |
2016 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2016) 'Transfer and semantic universals in the L2 acquisition of the English article system by child L2 learners'. Language Acquisition, . | |
2016 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2016) 'Development and evaluation of a Spanish-language version of the Relational Health Indices'. Psychological Assessment, . | |
2016 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2016) 'Syntactic reflexes of information structure in heritage Spanish: Evidence from psych-predicate constructions'. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, . | |
2016 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2016) 'Teaching Pragmatics with the Mi Vida Loca Video Program'. Dimension, . | |
2015 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2015) 'Acquisitional patterns of Spanish anticausative se: The end of the road'. Revista Española de Lingǘıstica Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, . | |
2015 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2015) 'Acquisitional patterns of Spanish anticausative se'. Revista Española de Lingǘıstica Aplicada (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), . | |
2015 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2015) 'Preposition Stranding in Spanish as a Heritage Language Diego Pascual y Cabo, Texas Tech University'. Heritage Language Journal, . | |
2015 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2015) 'The logical problem of second language acquisition of argument structure: Recognizing aspectual distinctions in Spanish psych-predicates'. International Journal of Bilingualism, . | |
2014 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2014) 'Beyond interfaces'. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, . | |
2014 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2014) 'Beyond interfaces: Pragmatic development vs. syntactic deficiencies in the L2 acquisition of reverse psychological predicates'. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, . | |
2012 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2012) 'Acquiring Spanish at the interfaces: An integrative approach to the L2 acquisition of psych-verbs'. . | |
2012 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2012) 'Acquiring Spanish psych-verbs: maturation or continuity?'. . | |
2009 | Inmaculada Gómez Soler (2009) 'The morphosyntax-lexicon interface breakdown: an aspectual account of the L2 acquisition of ser and estar by L1 English speakers'. . |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Gómez Soler, I. (2020) 'Heritage Language Learners in Tennessee: Current Practices, Challenges, and Directions for the Future' In: Spanish Across Domains in the United States: Education, Public Space and Social Media. Leiden, Netherlands : Brill. [Link] | |
2019 | Prada Pérez, A de & Gómez Soler, I. (2019) 'The effect of person in the subject expression of Spanish heritage speakers' In: Dialects from Tropical Islands: Caribbean Spanish in the United States. London : Routledge. | |
2017 | Pascual y Cabo, D. & Gómez Soler, I. (2017) 'Dative Experiencer Predicates in Child Heritage Speakers of Cuban Spanish' In: Cuban Spanish Dialectology: Variation, Contact, and Change. Washington : Georgetown University Press. |
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Research Interests
- Heritage speaker bilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Language pedagogy
- Teacher education
- Language policy in education
- Computer-assisted language learning·