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 language

Education

  • Ph D, Foreign language educationUniversity of Iowa (2003)
    Task effect in synchronous-computer mediated communication
  • MA, Foreign language educationUniversity of Iowa (1997)
  • MA, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign LanguageUniversity of the Basque Country (1993)
  • BA, Spanish literatureUniversity of Deusto (1992)