Danielle Geary
Coordinator of Spanish Program, Lecturer of Spanish
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Dr. Danielle Geary is a Lecturer of Spanish and the Coordinator of GT Spanish Online in the School of Modern Languages. Her extensive international travel experience includes living in Spain for several years, directing study abroad programs in Spain and Mexico, and conducting ethnographic field research in Costa Rica. She is co-director of the Spain Visit & Live it! Study Abroad program and the coordinator of the Introductory Spanish Program.
She created and developed the curriculum for GT Spanish Online, the first online Spanish program at Georgia Tech. Her teaching interests include online learning and conversation courses, and her teaching style is featured in six chapters of more than 30 original Spanish video lessons she created for Study.com. Since joining Tech in 2010, she has been awarded multiple CETL certificates for excellence in teaching.
Her scholarly articles address the topics of study abroad, online learning and international students. She serves on the editorial board of the Academic Leadership Journal of Student Research. She is often invited to review new digital learning materials and textbooks, and has presented at various universities and conferences on how to use technology to teach foreign language courses.
She holds a Master's in Spanish from the University of Salamanca in Spain and a Doctor of Education with research concentration in study abroad and foreign language acquisition from Nova Southeastern University.
Her favorite thing about teaching at Georgia Tech is the students - they're phenomenal!
Interests
- Instructional Technologies for Foreign Language Acquisition
- Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
- Spanish
- Studies Abroad
Focuses:
- Europe
- Latin America and Caribbean
- United States
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- Grammar
- Higher Education: Teaching and Learning
- Intercultural Issues
- International Communication
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Popular Culture
- Technology
Courses
- SPAN-1001: Elementary Spanish I
- SPAN-1002: Elementary Spanish II
- SPAN-1101: Patterns of Spanish I
- SPAN-1102: Patterns of Spanish II
- SPAN-2001: Intermediate Spanish I
- SPAN-2002: Intermediate Spanish II
- SPAN-3101: Conversation I
- SPAN-3102: Conversation II
- SPAN-3813: Special Topics: Spanish for the Professions
- SPAN-3813: Special Topics: Spanish in Media and Pop Culture
All Publications
Journal Articles
- Ideas for Creating an Effective Syllabus for Online Learning
Date: 2018
- How Do We Get People to Interact? International Students and the American Experience
Date: 2016
- Karaoke in Costa Rica: A Multidimensional Approach to Study Abroad
Date: 2015
- Using Facebook to Enrich the Online Classroom
Date: 2015
- eLearning in a Foreign Language
Date: 2012
- Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies: A Review of the Literature
Date: 2012
- Trend and Data Analysis of Homeschooling [and the Transition to College]
Date: 2011
Conferences
- Using iLrn to Teach Foreign Language (ACTFL Convention)
Date: November 2015
Presentations
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (Morehouse College)
Date: September 2016
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (Lee University)
Date: August 2016
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (Georgia College)
Date: September 2015
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (Georgia State University)
Date: September 2015
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (Emory University)
Date: August 2015
- Teaching Foreign Language with Technology (University of Georgia)
Date: August 2015
Internet Publications
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Ch.10: Present tense of -AR Verbs (4 lessons)
Date: 2013
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Ch.21: As a Child and the Imperfect (5 lessons)
Date: 2013
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Ch.2: Describing People, Adjective Agreement and Ser (7 lessons)
Date: 2013
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Ch.4: Household Terms, Articles and Gender Rules (8 lessons)
Date: 2013
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Chapter 12: Pastimes and the Near Future (5 lessons)
Date: 2013
- Study.com Spanish Video Textbook Chapter 15: Shopping and the Present Progressive (5 lessons)
Date: 2013
Translations
- Los Retablos de Edilberto Jiménez / The Retablos of Edilberto Jiménez
Date: 2012
Thesis / Dissertations
- The Comprehensive Impact of a Short-Term Study Abroad Program on Adult Foreign Language Students
Date: 2012