Enrique Santamaría Busto

Lector
Room 643, MacCallum Brennan Building A18
Telephone: +61 9036 6125
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Enrique Santamaría Busto was born in Burgos, Spain. He completed a double major Arts degree in Applied Languages at the Universidad de Burgos and in Comparative Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he received his MA in Spanish as a Foreign Language.

His professional activity has been always orientated to the teaching of Spanish language and culture, covering a wide range of disciplines (Advanced Grammar, Spanish for business, Creative Writing, Spanish civilization of the 20th century, French-Spanish translation, DELE, Spanish pronunciation). He has taught and coordinated different courses at the universities of Virginia, Wake Forest, Western Michigan (USA), Toulouse le Mirail, École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (France), Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany) and other institutions and universities of Spain (U. Complutense de Madrid, U. de Burgos, UIMP, Instituto Cervantes, Foundation for the International Education of Students, etc). In 2009 he came to Australia to teach at the University of Sydney.

Enrique Santamaría Busto is currently writing his PhD thesis focussing on Spanish pronunciation in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

Research areas

• Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
• Cognitive Grammar
• Applied Linguistics
• Film Studies
• Music (Enrique Santamaría holds a professional double degree in violin and viola by the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Antonio de Cabezón, Burgos, Spain)

Selected publications

Articles

• ‘Análisis y propuestas para la mejora de la comprensión oral del español como lengua extranjera: el fenómeno de la sinalefa’. Revista de Interlingüística, número 17, Madrid, 2006, pgs 961-970. http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2317711
• ‘Enseñar prosodia en el aula: reflexiones y propuestas’. In: Las destrezas orales en la enseñanza del español L2-LE: XVII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE), Enrique Balmaseda Maestu (ed.). 2007, págs.1237-1250.
• Instituto Cervantes (several publications on line) Centro Virtual Cervantes. Didactired http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/didactiRed/didactiteca/resultados.asp

Conference activity

• ‘Entonando con los estudiantes. La entonación en el aula de ELE’
  IV Foro de profesores de ELE, Universidad de Valencia, February 22-23, 2008
• ‘Mejorar el “acento extranjero”. Práctica de la prosodia en el aula de ELE’
  III Foro de profesores de ELE, Universidad de Valencia, February 23-24, 2007
• ‘Propuestas para la enseñanza de la prosodia del español como lengua extranjera’
  XVII Congreso Internacional de ASELE, Universidad de La Rioja, September, 27-30, 2006
• ‘Teaching culture: strategies and techniques for intercultural exploration’
  IES International Language Conference, IES Freiburg (Germany) April 6-8, 2006
• ‘Análisis y propuestas para la mejora de la comprensión oral del español como lengua extranjera: el fenómeno de la sinalefa’
  Congreso Internacional de la AJL, Universidad de La Rioja, April 26-28, 2006
• ‘Mejorar la comprensión oral: una forma lúdica y didáctica de introducir las segmentaciones fónicas del español ‘
  II Foro de profesores de ELE, Universidad de Valencia, February 17-18, 2006

Other professional contributions

• Director of the short film Learning España (2007). This 27-minute short film was part of a film workshop that had the goal to integrate Spanish and American university students in the process of writing, rehearsing and recording a fiction story depicting intercultural relations. This film was distinguished by IES INTERNATIONAL ABROAD with the Faculty Innovation Award (2007).
• Co-founder and co-director of the Magazine of the Instituto Cervantes de Toulouse (numbers 1, 2 and 3, 2004-2005)
• Director of the short film L’heure espagnole (2005)
  http://www.archivodigital.cervantes.es/fichas/centros/toulouse/corto.htm