Amalía Stratakos-Tió is currently a Senior Lecturer
in the Spanish Language Program of the Department of Romance Studies.
Her Masters degree is in the teaching of foreign languages, and
she holds a permanent NYS Certification in Teaching Foreign Languages,
and in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
She has taught many different levels of Spanish, but at present,
teaches Spanish for the Health and Medical Professions, a content-based
course, offered every semester, which teaches the Spanish language
within a medical and health context and is based on how the cultural
concepts of an individual can affect medical care. In order to make
the course relevant and useful to a future doctor in the US, she
constantly reflects and keeps informed on what kind of linguistic,
cultural and medical language a doctor in the U.S. will have to
know in order to interview an Hispanic patient, take his medical
history,give a diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, all within an
appropriate cultural and linguistic context.
In 1998 she received a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching
and Learning for her pilot project, Interactive Medical, which she
continues to work on.
She is also very interested in appropriate discourse behavior of
the Greek American within different cultural settings.
She is the recipient of a Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching,
and was chosen in April 2003 by a Merrill Presidential Scholar as
"faculty member that has had most positive influence on her
education at Cornell".
Recent courses:
Intermediate Spanish for the Medical and Health Professions
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