Selected Professional Presentations (Juried/Refereed)

The Standards in the K-12 foreign language curriculum: Their integration and application after a Standards-based methodology course. The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, GA, March 2010

The use of social technologies: Sociocultural and socioconstructivist approaches to FL writing. The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, GA, March 2010

The Learning Scenario: Organizer for Professional Development. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, CA, November 2009

Pedagogical shifts in FL writing: Enhancing students' writing with wikis. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), San Diego, CA, November 2009

Promoting FL collaborative writing through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Symposium of Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ, November 2009

Fostering discourse level awareness among FL writers through collaborative work when using Web 2.0 tools. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), East Lansing, MI, October 2009

Developing a community of inquiry in foreign language lower-level courses: Creating a cognitively-engaged social community. EuroCALL, Gandía, Spain, September 2009

omposing in a foreign language: Using wikis and chats to enhance students’ collaborative writing, American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Denver, Colorado, March 2009

Task Effect On Collaborative Writing When Using Wikis and Chats, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Tempe, AZ, March 2009

Bimodal Approaches: Combining Wikis and Chats for L2 Collaborative Writing, Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Manoa, Hawai'i, October 2008

Writing Collaboratively: Using Wikis in the Foreign Language Classroom, Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), San Francisco, CA, March 2008

Assessing students' performance in online chat. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Nashville, TN, November 2006

Examining students’ learning process through their collaborative dialogues. EuroCALL. Granada, Spain, September 2006

Assessing students’ language product and process. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Montreal, Canada, June 2006

Dynamic and static assessment: Towards a fuller understanding of students' performance in online chat. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Manoa, Hawaii, May 2006

Syntactic Complexity in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S-CMC): Defining New Parameters for the Online Medium. EuroCALL. Krakow, Poland, August 2005

Interaction Hypothesis and Sociocultural Perspective: Working Together Towards an Understanding of Online Chat. The Learning Conference. Granada, Spain, July 2005

Exploring Measures of Syntactic Complexity in Synchronous Computer Mediated Communication. Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), East Lansing, MI, May 2005

Syntactic Complexity in Synchronous Computer- Mediated Communication (S-CMC): Defining New Parameters for the Online Medium. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), (Poster), Chicago, IL, November 2004

Comunicación Sincrónica en Internet: Equilibrio entre Forma y Comunicación. (Synchronic Communication in Internet: Balance between Form and Communication). Noveno Congreso de Didáctica del Español, Indianapolis, IN, October 2004

The Interaction Hypothesis and the Sociocultural theory in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S-CMC): Intertwining non-competing Approaches. EuroCALL, Vienna, Austria, September 2004

Negotiation of Meaning in Jigsaw and Free Discussion in Synchronous Computer-mediated Communication (S-CMC). CALICO, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2004

Jigsaw and Free discussion in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S-CMC) for Classroom Assessment. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL, April 2003

Synchronous Computer-Mediated Language in Jigsaw and Free discussion. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Arlington, VA, March 2003

Anne Cummings and Ana Oskoz. Incorporating Technology in Meaningful Ways into your Classroom. Iowa World Language Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA, October 2002

Task effect in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (Poster). Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT), Chicago, IL, January 2002

Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Sharon Foerster and Ana Oskoz. Speaking, Writing and Online Chatting in Spanish: Assessing L2 Production. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, DC, November 2001

Ana Oskoz and Ana Bordería-García. Classical Item Theory in Investigating the Reliability of the Recall Protocol. Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT), Ann Arbor, MI, May 2001

Ana Oskoz and Ana Bordería-García. Classical Item Theory in Investigating the Reliability of the Recall Protocol (Poster). Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Saint Louis, MO, February 2001

Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Sharon Foerster and Ana Oskoz. Oral Corrections of Students’ Errors: Challenging our Assumptions. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Boston, MA, November 2000

Judith Liskin-Gasparro and Ana Oskoz. Corrective Feedback, Learner Uptake, and Teacher Beliefs: A Pilot Study. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF), Madison, WI, September 2000

Other Selected Professional Presentations (Non-Juried/Non-Refereed)

Assessment of Student Language Produced by Students During Online Chats. Prentice Hall, World Languages Symposium, March 2007

Examining students’ learning process through their collaborative dialogues. MLL Research Day, MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), November 2006

Internet: Recursos para la enseñanza del español. Center for Languages Initiatives (CLI), MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), March 2006

Dynamic assessment via online chat. MLL Research Day, MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), November 2005

Para Hablar en la Clase de Español: Actividades Comunicativas. (Speaking in the Spanish Classroom: Communicative activities). Center for Languages Initiatives (CLI), MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), March 2005

Negotiation of Meaning to Assess Students’ Performance in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S-CMC): A Reflection. Faculty Research Day, MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), November 2004

Negotiation of Meaning in Jigsaw and Free discussion in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (S-CMC). Faculty Research Day, MLL, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), November 2003

Jigsaw and Free Discussion in Synchronous-Computer Mediated Communication (S-CMC), Graduate Student Colloquium Series, University of Iowa, April 2003 

Tasks effect in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication. The Jacobsen Graduate Student Forum, University of Iowa, February 2002

Teaching Assistants Orientation Workshops, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa 1997-2000