Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Estefany Sosa is a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Linguistics program. She received a B.S. in Multimedia-Journalism and a dual M.A. in General Linguistics and Spanish Language & Literature from San José State University. Her primary research interests include second language pragmatic/interactional competence, attention and memory in second language acquisition, language contact and multilingualism, non-English-speaking learners of Spanish, and Spanish-speakers learners of less commonly taught languages.