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Melissa Baralt
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Applied psycholinguist researching bilingual language development, SLA, TBLT, and the best supports for language learners, teachers & parents. Professor @FIU.
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🚀 The AOTP has launched an interactive map of all Portuguese language programs in the U.S.! 🇵🇹🇧🇷

👏 Congrats to Dr. Eugênia Fernandes & Dr. Mariana Fuste for leading this incredible effort. Explore here 👉 www.aotpsite.net/meuprograman...

#Portuguese #AOTP #LanguageLearningResources
Portuguese Programs in the US | AOTP
AOTP - American Organization of Teachers of Portuguese. Portuguese for Careers: Language Learning to Prepare Students for Professional and Personal Success
www.aotpsite.net
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🌟 Big congratulations to my colleague Prof. Nick André and his amazing team on the launch of their new open-access Kreyòl textbook! 📚

Their work is a gift to learners, teachers, and the Haitian community worldwide — promoting language access and equity.

dloc.com/AA00114940/0...

#HaitianCreole
Digital Library of the Caribbean
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August 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Grateful beyond words to work with the incredible @profeaustin.bsky.social and @clemonsaris.bsky.social

Our study honors a Black Spanish teacher who, six years after her teacher ed, used abolitionist teaching + TBLT to create a classroom of joy, freedom, and brilliance.
profeaustin.bsky.social Tasha Austin PhD [she] @profeaustin.bsky.social · Apr 9
so proud of this collaborative work! here's @melissabaralt.bsky.social @clemonsaris.bsky.social & my study on TBLT Spanish instruction with young learners. the possibilities for WL teaching are endless when Black cultural value is assumed❤️🖤💚
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... [dm us for copies]
Title: “Black children are gifted at learning languages – that’s why I could do TBLT”: inclusive Blackness as a pathway for TBLT innovation Abstract: This paper presents a case study of a Black Spanish-language teacher and her 4th-grade students using Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) six years after a teacher-training program. We describe the program and the teacher’s understanding of tasks and TBLT. Using a bottom-up approach, we then explore the teacher and students’ implementation of TBLT six years later in a socioeconomically resilient 4th-grade classroom in Miami, Florida, where 95 % of the students are Black. Task-as-process was assessed with classroom observations, handouts, task outcomes, and interviews. Findings revealed that the teacher continued using TBLT, highlighting both its opportunities and challenges. Opportunities were driven by her beliefs, reliance on “Black students’ linguistic gifts,” and access to sample tasks...
April 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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That feeling when the R01 that basically had to be re-written in the last two weeks is in! Hooray!!! @melissabaralt.bsky.social @britobabylab.bsky.social @fiu.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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We got another grant! Huge congratulations to PI @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social and fellow Co-Is @ujuanya.bsky.social & @clemonsaris.bsky.social ! Together we’re advancing TBLT and creating meaningful change in language education based on students real-world needs!
deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social Déborah Gómez, Ph.D. @deborahgomezgomez.bsky.social · Jan 17
I am so excited to announce that we have been awarded the Humanities Initiatives at HBCUs grant. Thanks to this generous NEH grant, we will design 3 new Spanish language and culture courses for our curriculum. I am always so grateful for my incredible colleagues.
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#NEHGrant
January 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM