Jan Emberson
Teaching Experience
St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas
University of Texas at Austiin
Huston-Tillotson University
Concordia University
-Medical Spanish in an online format
Austin Community College
- Created first and second semester online Spanish courses for medical professions.
- Created Spanish Conversation course for Healthcare Professions in a distance learning and hybrid format.
- Created Spanish Conversation course for Business and Finance in a distance learning format format.
- Created Spansih for Law Enforcement in a distance learning format.
Professional Publications
"A Neurological Basis for /situational Language Teaching", AATSP, Washington, D.C., 2011.
“Declarative and Procedural Memory in Second LanguageAcquisition:, Guadalajara, México, July, 2010.
“Vocabulary Acquisition through Writing: Why, What and When?”, Hispania, 92:2 (May, 2009).
“A Facilitative Order of Vocabulary Acquisition”.Southwest Conference on Language Teaching”, Norman,
Oklahoma, April, 2009. “Vocabulary Acquisition Through Writing: Why, What and When?” American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Jose, Costa Rica, August, 2008.
“Writing and Feedback in Foreign Language Acquisition”. Texas Foreign Language Association, Corpus Christi, Texas, March, 2008.
“Vocabulary Acquisition in the Classroom: Current Practices and Proposals.” American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, California, August 2007.
“Vocabulary Presentation and Media in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Texas Foreign Language Association. Dallas, Texas, March, 2007.
“Foreign Language Retention Through Infusion of Culture: Evidence from Cognitive Science.” Hispania, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Mar., 2006).
“Foreign Language Retention Through Infusion of Culture: Evidence from Cognitive Science.” American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, New York, New York, August 2005.
"The Pro-Drop Parameter in Child Second Language Acquisition". Annual Meeting of the American Association of the Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 1994.
TEXTBOOK AND SOFTWARE EDITING
Contributed to Level I (¿Y tú?), Level 2 (Entre Todos) and Level 3 (Fronteras) high school Spanish textbooks and workbooks. (Holt, Rinehart and Winston (H,R, & W).
Contributed to teacher's book of remedial grammar for Spanish I (H, R&W).
Created activities for Level 2 Video Workbook including pronunciation, dialog, grammar exercises, culture spots, grammar explanations, oral and written exercises. 
Reviewed Level I, II and III college and high school Spanish textbooks, workbooks and audio scripts. (H, R &W).
 
Wrote text for Spanish language learning software for The Learning Company.
Published: May 29, 2025