Amy Rossomondo

Amy Rossomondo (PhD, Indiana University) is Professor of Spanish and Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor at the University of Kansas, where she served as Director of the Spanish Language Program from 2004 to 2025 and currently chairs the Language Programs Committee. She oversees the design and implementation of the foundational course sequence in Spanish and guides the pedagogical development of the program's graduate teaching assistants and instructors. She has recently served as president of the American Association of University Supervisors, Coordinators and Directors of Language Programs (AAUSC).

Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of instructed language learning and technology, and her work has appeared in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Hispania, and Second Language Research & Practice. In ongoing collaboration with co-author Gillian Lord (University of Florida) and LingroLearning, she has developed Contraseña, a native-digital learning environment for elementary and intermediate Spanish now in its eighth edition, which incorporates AI-supported instructional tools grounded in communicative pedagogy. She is also the creator of the open-access Acceso Project, a web-based curriculum for intermediate Spanish used at hundreds of secondary and post-secondary institutions worldwide since 2009. Her chapter on adopting and adapting commercial language learning materials appears in the Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration. She is currently developing a new line of research on language learning anxiety in instructed second language acquisition contexts.