Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Lindsay Giacomino has been teaching Spanish to undergraduate students since 2015 and is honored to return to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as a Lecturer in Fall 2023. She has taught a variety of courses in the Basic Language Program at IU (S105, S200, S250, S280, and S326) when she was a graduate student in Hispanic Linguistics at IU, specializing in phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition.  

Previously, she was a Lecturer of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Iowa State University. She taught and developed curriculum for Spanish Conversation for Professionals, which focused on agriculture, engineering, and business concepts, vocabulary, and culture in the Spanish-speaking world, along with linguistics courses such as Spanish Pronunciation and Phonetics, increasing students' awareness of their Spanish pronunciation to make it more intelligible and improve their listening and communication skills through exposure and analysis of different Spanish varieties. 

Prior to teaching Spanish, she was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant and taught English at a university in Colombia. She has also taught for various Spanish immersion programs including the IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages in Chile, the Spanish Language Immersion Camp at IU, and El Lago del Bosque at the Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, MN.  

Lindsay’s professional interests include pronunciation, educational technology, learning analytics, curriculum development, language for the professions, and task-based language teaching.