Lyris Wiedemann, Senior Lecturer

Building 260, Room 217
650 723 0604
lyriswie@stanford.edu

Director of the Portuguese Language Program and Senior Lecturer in
Portuguese, Lyris Wiedemann was an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Teaching at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul until 1983. In the United States, she taught Portuguese for nearly
a decade at the University of California-Berkeley, where she was the Assistant Director of Portuguese Lower Division Courses. She returned to Stanford as the
Director of the Portuguese Language Program in 1996.

Interests

Language and culture; sociolinguistic variation; bilingualism; translation and language acquisition

Education

Ph.D. Education (Teaching of Languages, Culture and Literature), Stanford University

M.A. Teaching of Languages and Literature and Linguistics, Brazil

Current Courses

Accelerated 1st and 2nd Yr Portuguese
Portuguese for Spanish Speakers

Current Projects

Since Dr. Wiedemann's arrival at Stanford, the Portuguese Program has more than tripled its number of enrollments, and expanded to include Portuguese for Special Purposes, such as the classes offered at the Graduate School of Business. Dr. Wiedemann is highly active in professional organizations at the national and international level. She is currently working on a number of publications, including a Portuguese Grammar for speakers of Portuguese as a second language.

Professional Activities

A certified evaluator of the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Oral Proficiency Interview/Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview, she is a member of the Portuguese Accreditation Committee of the American Translators Association, and a consistent session organizer/presenter in the annual meetings of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and other major professional organizations. She has been an initiator or invited participant in joint projects with the National Foreign Language Center, the University of Pennsylvania, the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, DC, and the University of Arizona and the University of Kansas, among others.

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