Ana R Oscoz Iriarte
Professor · Tenured
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
Research interests
Ana Oskoz's research focuses on the potential of social digital tools to contribute to learners L2 writing. She has examined collaborative and individual writing using social tools, multiliteracies, feedback, and the use of multimodal texts (digital stories, blogs) from cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. Dr. Oskoz’s work has been published nationally and internationally. She has co-edited two books: Technology across writing contexts and tasks with Greg Kessler and Idoia Elola and Understanding Attitude in Intercultural Virtual Communication with Margarita Vinagre. She also co-authored the book, Digital L2 Writing, which published by Equinox Publishing, with Idoia Elola.Teaching interests
Second language writing, Second language acquisition, technology in the classroom, digital literacies, Methodology for Second languageEducation
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Ph D, Foreign language education
— University of Iowa (2003) Task effect in synchronous-computer mediated communication
- MA, Foreign language education — University of Iowa (1997)
- MA, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language — University of the Basque Country (1993)
- BA, Spanish literature — University of Deusto (1992)