Sharon Clampitt- Doctor of Education Curriculum & instruction of ESL; Post Grad Diploma Forensic Linguistics
- Professor (Retired) at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
Sharon Clampitt
- Doctor of Education Curriculum & instruction of ESL; Post Grad Diploma Forensic Linguistics
- Professor (Retired) at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
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Introduction
I am a retired professor from Inter American University of Puerto Rico - Ponce Campus. I taught there for over 30 years. My research interests include sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and distance learning. I am currently working on describing police language in Puerto Rico.
Current institution
Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
Current position
- Professor (Retired)
Additional affiliations
August 1987 - present
Inter American University of Puerto Rico- Ponce
Position
- Professor (Full)
Description
- I am a tenured full-time professor teaching in an online Ph.D. Program in Second Language Research and an Ed.D. Program in Leadership and Instruction in Distance Education.
Education
August 1987 - May 1995
Field of study
- Curriculum and Instruction of English as a Second Language
Publications
Publications (4)
Este libro, una traducción de la versión original en inglés: Language matters: a sociolinguitic analysis of language and nationalism in Guam, the Phillippines and Puerto Rico (Clampitt, 2018) presenta un análisis de los factores, sociolingüísticos que influyen en la conservación de idiomas nativos y la diseminación del idioma inglés en Guam, Filipi...
Taking a sociolinguistics-in- action approach, Language Matters explores the language situations in Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, three geographic areas that experienced the effect of linguistic imperialism in a historically similar timeframe and manner, but with very different results. English has all but replaced the native language of G...
An analysis of language shift factors and the presence of nationalist groups to defend the native language in Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines: 1898-1993
Although Puerto Rico is soon to commemorate one hundred years of its political and economic association with the United States, the island continues to maintain a very separate cultural identity, marked most distinctively by the use of the Spanish language in all societal domains. This exclusive use of Spanish, even after determined attempts by the...
