Vianey Gutierrez, M.A.

Vianey was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in business and Marketing in the Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua. On 2014, she obtained her M.A. in Spanish from Sam Houston State University and on 2018, Vianey received her M.S. in Translation from NYU. She has been part of WOLC since 2013.  

Teaching Elementary and Intermediate Spanish levels, gives her the opportunity to share her love for her culture and language with Sam students while enhances her understanding on second language acquisition to apply pedagogic strategies that benefits our students. Vianey is highly motivated to keep learning to be a better professor. She feels very proud to be part of SHSU community.  My research interests are mainly in Translation Studies, procedures and strategies for teaching Translation, Second Language Acquisition and cultural components in Translation.

 Current research interests

• Translation Theories
• Procedures and strategies of Translation
• Second Language Acquisition
• Reading strategies for Heritage Speakers
• Attitudes towards language acquisition
• Cultural components of a language

Selected Publications/Works/ Conferences

“Maintaining and Development of Heritage’s speakers Native Language trough reading” Western Social Science Association, April 9th, 2015 Portland, Oregon

 List of courses regularly taught at SHSU

Spanish 1411: Elementary Spanish 1

Spanish 1412: Elementary Spanish 2

Spanish 2311: Intermediate Spanish 1

Spanish 2312: Intermediate Spanish 2