Being born in a bilingual region gave Paula the taste of how much languages can shape our cultural views. In addition to her extensive experience teaching in four different continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America) she keeps developing herself with methodological and pedagogical courses focused on teaching Spanish as a Second Language.
Paula is passionate about Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics and Cross-Cultural features of languages. She hopes to finish her PhD in Applied Linguistics soon. She also believes language instruction provides a vehicle to understand cultures, traditions, people and their views of the world (Cosmovision). Her purpose is to create an environment where students are reassured of their strengths, aware of their improvements while using the target language.
Paula is honoured to be a member of the ISM team and be part of this amazing team of teachers. This will be her second year at ISM and her fifth year living in Moscow.
Qualifications:
BA in Spanish Philology with major in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language and Latin American
Literature by Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
PGCE in MFL Spanish and French by University of Cumbria
Masters in Science of Language and Linguistics by UNED (National Distance Learning University) from Spain
Current PhD candidate for Applied Linguistics: Contrastive Pragmatics at Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
