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Instructor specialized in Business and Scientific Spanish, with more than 14 years successful teaching of these content-based courses. Special training at the Carlos III University of Madrid for Business instruction. Coordinator of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce Exam in Houston for the same amount of years. Recent intensive training to teach AP Spanish Literature courses.Twenty years successful career at Rice University, starting as a graduate student coming from Spain in 1997 and becoming Associate Director of the Language Center in 2011, chosen for this newly created position for my “organizational skills, professional experience, and excellent relationship with all the colleagues in the department” (quoting former Director of the Center, Prof. Wendy Freeman). The only lecturer in the School of Humanities at Rice University honored with the prestigious George R. Brown Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence (http://cte.rice.edu/gallery/). Excellent student evaluations throughout my career.Extensive experience in all kinds of language courses from elementary to advanced levels, from content-based, Spanish for heritage learners, translation, and history in Spanish, also including cross-cultural awareness courses in English.Continuous and extensive professional training in the most innovative trends in language methodology and technology as applied to teaching.Imaginative and resourceful instructor, developer of new courses for engineers, summer programs abroad, innovative student activities, and FLAC courses.Spanish Language professional: instruction, translation, edition, consultation. Collaborating author at Jot Down Contemporary Culture Magazine, Jot Down Kids and Jot Down Books.

Listed skills include Higher Education, Teaching, University Teaching, Research, and 16 others.