About
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Research
Research interests
- Pedagogical and philosophical issues concerning teaching and learning in higher education
- Identifying and applying teaching and learning techniques to integrate creativity, criticality and self-reflection into the Modern Languages and Linguistics curriculum
- The impact of mental health challenges on students' learning experiences and academic performance.
Current research
My main research interests are centred on pedagogical and philosophical issues concerning teaching and learning in higher education. I am particularly committed to identify and apply effective teaching and learning techniques to integrate creativity, criticality and self-reflection into the Modern Languages and Linguistics curriculum. Likewise, my research into the contribution of a compulsory period of residence abroad to our languages degrees has opened invaluable opportunities for me to observe the development of undergraduate students as language specialists and critical beings. This area has also inspired me to pay special attention to the impact of mental health challenges on students' learning experiences and academic performance.
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Research interests
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Publications
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Supervision
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Teaching
My teaching and student supervision at the University of Southampton has spanned to UG, PGT and PGR levels. As a tutor of Spanish in the undergraduate programmes I have designed and delivered language courses for all seven levels of proficiency we offer, for both language specialists and students from across faculties. My contribution to the PGT and PGR programmes has involved lecturing on areas such as Teacher Education and Communicative Teaching as well as supervision of research-based dissertations, both online and face-to-face.
I am the module lead for the three modules dedicated to the Year Abroad in MLL: LANG2010 (pre-departure), LANG3005 (third-year module) and LANG3011 (Study Abroad re-entry).
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Biography
I completed a degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Literature (Laurate) at the University of Guanajuato (UG), Mexico, where my experience teaching at higher education began as tutor of both English and Spanish as foreign languages. My involvement in the languages department at UG expanded to the area of Language Teacher Education, which gave me the opportunity to collaborate with novice language teachers with whom I shared my own teaching philosophy and practice through a series of seminars and workshops of my own design. By 2001 I was also appointed as a Teacher Educator for the Escuela Normal Superior de Guanajuato (a Government teacher training college) training primary and secondary teachers of English, who would be appointed to teach in some of the most deprived areas of the Guanajuato State. In 2008 I was awarded a PhD in Applied Linguistics by the University of Southampton for my thesis The Development of Criticality amongst Students of Spanish, in which I looked at the different components of Modern Languages degree programmes at higher education (e.g. language classes, content classes, the Year Abroad) and the impact of these elements on the intellectual growth of undergraduate students of languages.
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Prizes
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