Rate My Professor Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch

Dr. Tocaimaza-Hatch's scholarship examines interactional competence, vocabulary learning, affordances, and intercultural reflection in service-learning and study abroad programs for Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers. Key publications include Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. C., & Koike, D. A. (2024). Affordances in the international service-learning context for Spanish learners. Language Awareness; Koike, D., & Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. (2024). L2 interactional competence in a short-term service-learning and study abroad program. Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 9(2), 157-187; Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. C., & Santo, J. (2020). Social interaction in the Spanish classroom: How proficiency and linguistic background impact vocabulary learning. Language Teaching Research; Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. C., & Bloom, M. (2019). Promoting intercultural thinking and reflection through U.S. history. Foreign Language Annals, 52(3), 507-528; and Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. C. (2019). Addressing the challenges of service-learning in broad access institutions of higher education. Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 26(2), 99-110. She received the 2022 Outstanding Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award and the 2019 UNO Faculty Service Learning Award, and has served as Faculty Fellow for the Service Learning Academy. Her leadership includes organizing the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2024.