Lori Czerwionka

CLA Profile

Chair of Spanish and Portuguese // SLC
Associate Professor // Spanish and Portuguese // SLC
Associate Professor // Linguistics // SIS
Associate Professor // Latin American Studies // SIS

Books

• Czerwionka, L., Showstack, R., & Liskin-Gasparro, J. (Eds.). (2022). Contexts of co-constructed discourse: Interaction, pragmatics, and second language applications. Routledge.

Articles

• Czerwionka, L., Obando-Taborda, A., Quiroga, J., Rios-Rojas, G. & K. Davis. (In Press). Assessment of 21st Century Skills in the Spanish Language Classroom: Problem-solving in a Spanish for Engineering Course. Hispania, 1­–21.
• Czerwionka, L., Joshi, S. S., Rios-Rojas, G. & Davis, K. A. (2025). Developing students’ sociotechnical thinking in the humanities-engineering classroom: A treatment versus control study using a scenario-based assessment. Journal of Engineering Education 114(3), 1–23. 
• McDowell, T., Czerwionka, L., & Artamonova, T. (2025). Dining on language and culture: Mealtime conversations with host families as learning opportunities during study abroad. Language and Intercultural Communication, 1–17. 
• Dickerson, S., & Czerwionka, L. (2024). L2 discourse marker use in interaction: The case of pues in Spanish. Foreign Language Annals, 57, 1072–1093.
• Olson, D. & Czerwionka, L. (2024). The Complementary Principle and Language Dominance: Mapping language–domain relationships of Spanish–English bilinguals. Multilingua, 44(2), 205–237.
• Staszkiewicz, B., Czerwionka, L., & Concu, V. (2024). The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests. Journal of Politeness Research, 21(1), 1–33.
• Chen, C., Quiroga, J., Czerwionka, L. & Davis, K. (2024). Comparing Engineering and Humanities Student Approaches to Complex Problem Solving. Institute of Electronical and Electrics Engineers (IEEE): Frontiers in Education, 1–5.
• Joshi, S. S., Davis, K. A., & Czerwionka, L. (2024). The effects of a humanities-based engineering course on engineering students' sociotechnical thinking. Research in Engineering Education Symposium, 127–135.
• Czerwionka, L., Staszkiewicz, B., & Shamloo, F.  (2023) Contextual variables as predictors of verb form: An analysis of gender and stance in Peninsular Spanish requests. Languages, 8(202), 1–26.

Awards  / Honors

• 2023­ Indiana Teacher of the Year–University Category, Indiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese