Dolly Young

DOLLY JESUSITA YOUNG has a B.A. in Spanish, an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a full professor and is the Coordinator of the lower-division Spanish program. She trains graduate students in Spanish to teach first and second-year Spanish courses (of which almost 100 classes are offered each semester).

Her research areas include teaching with technology, materials development, second language acquisition, second language reading, processing instruction and the role of affect (language anxiety) in language learning. She has published three readers in three foreign languages, Spanish, French and German, two edited volumes on foreign language anxiety, and a second-year content-oriented, task-based Spanish textbook with such publishing houses as McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Harcourt (now Thompson, Wadsworth, Schirmer and Heinle).

She is currently working on a first-year Spanish textbook to be published with Wiley and Sons in 2008. She has numerous publications in refereed practical and research-oriented journals, such as The Modern Foreign Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Hispania and Applied Language Learning.

Contact Information

Dolly Young
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
707 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-6992
E-Mail: djyoung@utk.edu