Mario Sanchez Gumiel
“’What’s your Accent?’ Collaborative Creation of an Online Library of the Spanish Language is a website that pretends to be a future resource for students, professors and lecturers who teach Spanish or Linguistics, offering phonetic transcriptions, syntactic explanations and sociolinguistic approaches of the different variations spoken of the Spanish language. Combining video and audio, it is conceived as an effort to bring together both a representative sample of the Spanish speakers in the University of Michigan and in the Ann Arbor area, and the work of different units of the campus, such as the Language Resource Center and the U-M Library. The goal of the website is not only to serve as a pedagogical tool for language instructors, but also for Linguistics scholars, as well as a mirror in which someone can observe and study the diversity and intricacies of the Spanish language.
Library Mentor: Barbara Alvarez