SLAT Webinar: MACAWS Research

Dr. Shelley Staples, Dr. Julieta Fernandez, Dr. Mariana Centanin Bertho

When
4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 19, 2026

Panelists: Dr. Shelley Staples, Dr. Julieta Fernandez, Dr. Mariana Centanin Bertho

Moderator: TBA

Panelist Bios

Dr. Mariana Centanin Bertho is a Lector of Portuguese at Yale University. She completed her Ph.D. in SLAT in 2024, with a dissertation on the phonological acquisiton of Portuguese by English-Spanish bilinguals, using learner corpus data. Since 2019, she has been part of the MACAWS team, working on both written and spoken corpus development as well as pedagogical applications of corpora, including the creation of teaching materials and resources.

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