EDUCATION

2012        Ph.D., Linguistics and Spanish

                University of Valladolid, Spain                         

                Department of Spanish Language

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Areas of specialization: Second Language Acquisition, Semantics, Phonetics & Phonology of Spanish language, Teaching Spanish as L2 Language.

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Dissertation title: “The present perfect tense in Peninsular Spanish and Modern Greek: a tempo-aspectual theoretic analysis”.

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Dissertation advisor: Dr. Gemma Herrero Moreno

Committee members: Dr. Manuel Teijeiro (Chair), Dr. Alicia Morales, Dr. Antonio Narbona, Dr. José Manuel Fradejas.

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2010       M.A., Spanish Phonetics and Phonology

               International University Menéndez Pelayo, Spain

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2006       M.A., Teaching and Learning Spanish as L2

               University of Valladolid, Spain

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2007       B.A., Spanish Language and Culture

               Hellenic Open University (EAP), Greece

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2001        B.A., European Studies

                University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom                    

                Department of Languages and Area Studies

                Degree 2:1 with Distinction in Spanish