Briseidee Del Bosque-Byrnes
PhD Candidate in Hispanic Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Biography
She has been an advocate of the Spanish language, and a bilingual educator for over two decades in the US. She started the Spanish as a Second Language and Spanish as a Heritage Language programs at several high schools in Denver, Colorado. She has been a bilingual teacher trainer, and curriculum advisor to bilingual educators in Canada, the US, Australia, and Mexico. She helps develop Spanish and English curriculum K-12th, and mentors Spanish-English bilingual educators in the US and Mexico.
Her passion for promoting the use of Spanish in bilingual children, led her to found “El Coro Infantil de San Antonio”, in San Antonio, TX. She’s also the founder of “Ayudemos” a community outreach bilingual group in San Antonio, that serves the community in the South of Texas, the North of Mexico and the southern border, working with migrants, unaccompanied migrant children, and Spanish speaking families at local hospitals, children and women’s shelters in Texas, as well as Mexican orphanages in the North of Mexico.
Brisa del Bosque has been researching Spanish dialects in Mexico and the US, bilingual education, and language contact including native languages from the South of Mexico recently entering in contact with Spanish from the North of Mexico. She’s currently researching perceptions regarding the elimination of final /d/, in Monterrey, Mexico. She’s also researching the use of Texan Spanish and Mexican Spanish in dual language schools in the South of Texas. She has been collecting data regarding the use and teaching practices of Spanish teachers K-12th in the US, specifically directed to the use or avoidance of inclusive language.
Brisa del Bosque is the mother of three bilingual children, whom she has homeschooled for the last fifteen years.
