Dr. Alexander Aldrich (B.A., M.A. at Brigham Young University; Ph.D. at University of Arizona) joined the faculty of Concordia College in the Department of World Languages and Cultures in 2019.
He teaches lower-division, upper-division, and graduate-level courses in Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures and in the Graduate Certificate program through the Department of Education.
Aldrich enjoys mentoring undergraduate research. In 2020, he was awarded a grant through the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity to work with undergraduate students on summer research. Together, they looked at how well university students of Spanish learn Spanish consonant sounds and to what degree native Spanish/English bilinguals consider them to have a foreign accent.
His areas of research interest include Experimental Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Second Language Speech Acquisition, Bilingualism/Heritage Spanish, and Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax.
Dr. Alexander Aldrich
Assistant Professor of Spanish
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