Dr. Juliet Falce-Robinson (Ph.D. UC Irvine) is the Director of Language Programs in Spanish and Portuguese. She teaches the graduate seminar on language pedagogy as well as undergraduate courses in Spanish applied linguistics, second language acquisition and service learning. She is responsible for teacher training and curriculum development in the language programs.

Her scholarly endeavors focus on curriculum development for L2 and heritage learners as well as on the continued improvement of principled language teaching methodologies.  She is particularly interested in culturally relevant pedagogies, inclusive and high impact teaching practices and equitable grading and assessment.  She also regularly directs the department summer travel study programs to Merida, Mexico and Granada, Spain.

Dr. Falce-Robinson received the UCLA Academic Senate Non-Senate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of California, Irvine. Spanish/Latin American Narrative/Applied Linguistics
  • M.A. University of California, Irvine.  Spanish
  • B.A. University of California. Irvine. Spanish/Bilingualism/Teaching English as a Second Language

Articles

  • Falce-Robinson, J. and Strother, D. L. “Framing Change: Arcos and Margallo – Two Spanish Women at the Intersection of Art and Education” Códec, Revista audiovisual, No. 3, 2025, pp. 42-53
  • Falce-Robinson, J. and Strother, D. L. “Somos gente, pues: The Enduring Cultural and Pedagogical Value of El Norte after Four Decades.” Códec, Revista audiovisual, No. 2, 2024, pp. 58-65
  • Falce-Robinson, J. “Cultivating Individual Style in a Skills-Based Approach to Language Teaching” Language Magazine, July 2018, pp. 21-23.
  • Falce-Robinson, J. and Strother, D. L. “Language Proficiency and Civic Engagement: The Incorporation of Meaningful Service Learning Projects in Spanish Language Courses” Interdisciplinary Humanities (Special Issue on Service Learning in the Humanities) Fall, 2012, pp. 73-87.

Dissertation

Underlying Gender Construction in the Latin American Regionalist Novel

Publications

Falce-Robinson, J., “The Modality of Masculine Narrative; Man as Redeemer in Rómulo Gallegos’ Doña Bárbara”, in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Trudeau, Lawrence, Ed., Gale, 2017, Vol.346

Falce-Robinson, J., Unidos – Apply to accompany Unidos, 1st Edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Nov. 2012.

Falce-Robinson, J., Student Activities Manual to accompany Mosaicos, Spanish as a World Language, 5th Edition, Pearson/Prentice-Hall Jan. 2009.