Grimsley Spanish Services -- Qualifications
Highlights of our head
translator/instructor Stephen Grimsley's credentials include:
BA in Modern Languages (Spanish/French), St. Andrews College, 1996
MA in Romance Languages (Spanish/Portuguese), University of
Georgia, 1998
ABD in Hispanic Linguistics, Indiana University, 2002
MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics, Indiana University, 2011
Mr. Grimsley's additional
language-related certifications include:
Bridging the Gap Medical Interpreter Certification
French: DELF Certification, Level B2
Mr. Grimsley's areas of focus in
his Master's and PhD program coursework, and areas of personal
research, included especially:
Second Language Acquisition (focusing on how learners acquire
English and Spanish)
Historical Linguistics (how languages change over time)
Language Contact Phenomena (bilingualism, code-switching, language
mixture, and other ways languages influence each other)
Dialectology/Regionalisms (how English and Spanish vary in the
different countries in which they are spoken)
Language Assessment (with additional experience gained as an oral
interview rater for the Indiana English Proficiency Exam)
Literary Translation (completed all requirements for the IU
Certificate in Literary Translation except for the translation
project)
Mr. Grimsley's full CV is
available upon request.