Rosana Acquaroni Muñoz

Rosana Acquaroni Muñoz holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (2008, UCM) and a degree in Hispanic Philology (1989, UAM). She currently teaches Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE). She also teaches a range of Spanish language and literature courses for American university programmes in Madrid. She is the author of teaching materials (Santillana, SGEL, Difusión) and runs numerous teacher-training courses in Spanish as a Foreign and Second Language, both in Spain and abroad, at various universities, Spanish Education Offices and Cervantes Institutes.

As a poet she has published six books: *Del mar bajo los puentes* (1988), which won a runner-up prize in the 1987 Adonais Poetry Award; *El jardín navegable* (1990, reissued in 2017); *Cartografía sin mundo* (1995), winner of the Cáceres World Heritage Poetry Prize in 1994; *Lámparas de arena* (2000); *Discordia de los dóciles* (2011); and *La casa grande* (Bartleby Editores, 2018), which received the Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers' Guild.

Her research focuses on the development of reading comprehension in the Spanish as a Foreign Language classroom and on the use of literature — poetry in particular — as a teaching tool. In 2009 her doctoral thesis received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award and the Telémaco Prize, awarded to academic publications that promote reading and writing habits across the different levels of education.

Eduardo de Agreda Coso

Eduardo de Agreda Coso studied Arabic Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), specialising in Spanish Literature and receiving the Extraordinary Graduation Award. He holds a European PhD from the UCM in Applied Linguistics, with a thesis entitled *La representación teatral como técnica didáctica para la enseñanza en el texto dialógico en ELE*. He also holds a Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from the UCM.

He trained as an actor at the Jorge Eines Escuela del Actor and has performed in a number of productions with different theatre companies. He has taught at the CCEE since 2010.

He also teaches the course "Contemporary Spanish Theatre Workshop" at the Universidades Norteamericanas Reunidas programme within the UCM, where he teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century Spanish drama and directs a final performance of the works studied with his students.

He directs theatre productions designed for teaching purposes. His doctoral research and his publications address dramatic performance in its many forms, the study of dramatic texts for teaching ends, and the use of theatre techniques in the teaching of grammar. His other research interests include the teaching of Spanish to Chinese speakers and Cognitive Linguistics.

He has given papers and workshops at a range of institutions and publishing houses, and has taught, trained teachers and carried out research at several international universities, among them Università Ca' Foscari, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija and the UCM.

He is the author of *Técnicas teatrales en ELE* (Arco Libros) and *Teatro Aplicado en ELE: ideas y actividades* (enClave ELE).

He speaks English, Italian and Arabic.

Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer

Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer holds a degree and a PhD in Semitic Philology, Arabic and Hebrew (1989), from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a degree in Psychology (2004) from the UNED, and official accreditation as a psychotherapist from the Centro di Terapia Breve Strategica in Arezzo, directed by Giorgio Nardone.

She has been an assistant lecturer and an associate lecturer in the Departments of Hebrew and Arabic, respectively, at the Faculty of Philology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and an associate researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Since 1988 she has taught on the Spanish language courses for international students run by the UCM across its various programmes. She has been a member of the CCEE staff since the centre was founded in 2008.

Her research and publications have focused on the history of Arabic science, the relationship between Spanish literature and Andalusi and Sephardic culture, and the presence of the Moriscos in Golden Age texts. She is currently researching second language acquisition from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive science, with particular attention to the specific learning needs of Chinese students. She has extensive experience in second language teaching, which began in 1986 with Hebrew and Arabic for philology students and, from 1988, with Spanish on the Spanish Courses for International Students at the Faculty of Philology (UCM), now the CCEE.

She coordinates the Educational Psychology Service of the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish, where she provides individual support for students' learning needs and runs seminars for teachers and students on how to optimise classroom performance and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language (ccee.orientacion@pas.ucm.es).

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Julia Beatriz Corral Hernández

Julia Beatriz Corral Hernández holds a PhD in Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and two degrees in Hispanic Philology, in Linguistics and in Hispanic Literature, from the same university. She is a specialist in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, a field in which she has extensive specific training. Her professional development includes numerous courses, among them the course run by the Spanish Language Information and Observation Office and one on new technologies and education: multimedia, the internet and virtual reality.

She began her teaching career on the Complutense Courses for International Students, where she also carried out research and teaching duties as an honorary collaborator in the Department of Spanish Philology, and was an associate lecturer at the Centre for Hispanic Studies of the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. She later worked as a tenured teacher at the Cervantes Institutes in Cairo and Lisbon, and served as academic coordinator of the Cairo centre for one academic year.

Between 2005 and 2006 she was a senior officer at the Cervantes Institute's Teacher Training Centre, where she planned and coordinated a range of courses in collaboration with the Socrates Agency. Within the same institution she drew up training plans for Cervantes Institute centres, and organised and assessed the teaching practice of non-EU students on the centre's Master's degree in teaching Spanish.

She has been a DELE examiner since 1999.

She has run numerous training and methodology update seminars for teachers of Spanish.

Her publications include "El teatro desde una perspectiva coloquial", "Las preposiciones locativas en español e italiano" and "La integración de los sufijos apreciativos en los niveles avanzados de L2". Of particular note is her work on the digital encoding of the Linguistic Atlases of Cantabria and Spanish America and of the Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Spanish America. She has co-authored a spelling and typography handbook for writers. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals *Acequia*, *Candil* and *Revista Cervantes* of the Cervantes Institute.

She has taken part in numerous conferences, including the 3rd International Congress on "El Español de América", the 1st International Congress on the Teaching of Spanish, the 5th, 6th and 9th International Expolingua Congresses, and the 4th, 7th and 9th International ASELE Congresses, as well as the International Symposium on Latin American Literature: One Hundred Years of History.

She has studied English, Italian, Portuguese and Arabic.

Marifrán Cuerpo Blanco

Marifrán Cuerpo Blanco has held a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 1987. In 1991 she obtained the Specialist qualification from the UCM's course for Specialist Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language. She has run seminars and training courses for teachers at various Spanish institutions, including Teacher Training and Resource Centres of the Ministry of Education in Madrid, Ávila and other cities, and at universities such as Alcalá de Henares, on the practice of written expression in Spanish as a second language classes and on teaching Spanish to migrants.

She has taught Spanish to international students at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 1988, and also served as an academic tutor on those courses from 1988 to 2008. Since 2009 she has taught on the Intensive Courses for Erasmus students of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme, organised by the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish at the request of the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations.

She has been a member of the examining board for the DELE oral examinations, organised by the Cervantes Institute, since 2000. She has published widely in the field of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, and between 1996 and 2000 she was co-director and a member of the editorial board of *Frecuencia L*, a journal specialising in the didactics of Spanish as a foreign language (Editorial Edinumen). She also collaborates with other publishers, Dicenda and Espasa Calpe, on publications outside the field. She continues to teach at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish.

María Pilar Díez de Frías

María Pilar Díez de Frías holds a degree in German Philology from the UCM. In 1997 she obtained the *Magíster* qualification in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language after completing the UCM Master's degree for specialist teachers in this field, and in 2004, having completed her doctoral coursework in the Department of Spanish Language I at the UCM, she was awarded the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA).

She began teaching Spanish as a foreign language in the summer of 1998 on the courses offered by the Faculty of Philology, and since the creation of the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE) she has taught a range of subjects there. She has also taught Composition, Stylistics and Grammar on various North American programmes (Universidades Norteamericanas Reunidas and IES Madrid).

Since 1997 she has worked as an academic tutor and coordinator on the UCM Master's degree for specialist teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language.

She has taught Business Spanish since 2004 at the CCEE, since 2009 at CUNEF, and since 2010 on the postgraduate course *Especialista en didáctica del español de los negocios*.

At the Universidad Alfonso X (UAX) she taught Spanish as a foreign language to Erasmus students and oral and written communication on a range of degree programmes.

From 1998 to 2009 she coordinated the Advanced Philology Courses in their autumn, spring and summer editions.

She runs training courses at various institutions and is co-author of *Competencia Gramatical en Uso. Nivel B2* (Edelsa, 2008).

Zara Fernández de Moya

A graduate in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994), she was awarded a scholarship to take a Master's degree in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Ottawa, Canada, between 1994 and 1995. In 1996 she completed the teacher-training course in Spanish as a Foreign Language at International House Madrid, and during 1996 and 1997 she was a Spanish language assistant at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. From 2000 to 2001 she took the Master's degree in Publishing run by the University of Salamanca and Santillana, and in 2009 she undertook doctoral studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies within the R&D project *"Relaciones culturales entre España y el Mundo Árabe"*, with research on educational and cultural cooperation between Spain and Syria and the Cervantes Institute in Damascus.

She has worked as a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language, a DELE examiner, a teacher of Spanish cinema and a teacher trainer at the following universities: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (from 1997 to the present); New York University in Madrid (2007-2008); University of California, Davis in Madrid (2007-2014); Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran (2015); University of New Haven at CEA Madrid (2007-2009); Universidad Veritas, San José, Costa Rica (1999); Charles University, Prague (1996-1997); and the University of Ottawa (1994-1996).

Between 1998 and 1999 she coordinated the language, art and culture department at the InterNexus Language Centre Madrid-Brazil, and collaborated with the Centro Virtual Cervantes on materials for "Rayuela".

Her published teaching materials include *Escala I* and *Escala II. Material Complementario para la enseñanza del español* (Editorial Edinumen, 2000), presented by the author at the Cervantes Institutes in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília). In 2005 she contributed to *Prisma C1* (Editorial Edinumen) and published *Estudio ELE, nivel A1* (Edinumen).

She has written numerous articles on second language acquisition, among them "Licensing and identification of null categories in Spanish non-native grammars" (26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, UAM, Mexico City); "La adquisición de la gramática del español no nativo de adolescentes y adultos en un contexto institucional" (*La adquisición de segundas lenguas*, Madrid: Edelsa); "La evaluación en la enseñanza de ELE: una propuesta de cuestionario" (8th International ASELE Congress, 1997, University of Alcalá de Henares); and "A Longitudinal Study of Spanish Non-native Grammars: Beyond parameters" (Penn State Conference on Acquisition of Spanish as a First or Second Language, Penn State University, University Park).

In publishing, she worked on the supervision and copy-editing of the new Clásicos Universales collection at Editorial Gredos, and was director of press and communications at Editorial Lengua de Trapo (2002-2003).

She is also project director, curator and head of communications at the Western Mediterranean Cultural Association (MED-OCC, www.med-occ.org). Between 2008 and 2011 she directed the exhibition *Yusur-Puentes: Paisaje y arquitectura en Marruecos y España*. As part of Damascus's year as Arab Capital of Culture, she coordinated the exhibition *Ilham de Damasco* (2008-2009). In 2012 she directed the visual arts project representing contemporary Spanish art at the First Casablanca Biennial, following a residency at Ifitry (Essaouira), organised by Maroc Premium in collaboration with MED-OCC.

She was deputy director of communications for the exhibition *Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World* at the Focus-Abengoa Foundation in Seville and for the *Journey to Andalucía* project, organised by Casa Árabe, the Crossway Foundation of London and Art Jameel. She coordinated the seminar organised by Casa Árabe at the Cervantes Institute in Rabat, *Contextos para la creación: Marruecos y España, un espacio común*. Since 2014 she has coordinated the fine arts jury of the Ciudad de Alcalá de Henares Prize, and she directed the event *Recordando a José Luis Sampedro: La vida perenne*, held in September 2015 at Espacio Fundación Telefónica and promoted by the UCM Faculty of Philology and the MED-OCC Association, among other partners.

She is currently curator and director of the exhibition *Miradas Paralelas. Irán-España: fotógrafas en el espejo*, the first touring exhibition of work by women artists from the two countries, shown throughout 2016 at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre as part of the Ellas Crean Festival, in Tehran with the support of the Spanish Embassy, and at the Tres Culturas Foundation in Seville. The exhibition is promoted by MED-OCC with the collaboration of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID); the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport; the Directorate-General for Libraries, Archives and Museums of Madrid City Council's Department of Culture and Sport; the Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo Foundation; and the Andalusian Photography Centre of the Regional Ministry of Culture, with the support of the Persépolis Cultural Centre in Madrid, Casa Asia, the UCM Faculty of Philology, La Esfera del Arte and Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran.

Zara Fernández de Moya speaks and writes English, French and Arabic, both Classical and Moroccan dialect.

Miguel Ángel Galindo Lario

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Miguel Ángel Galindo Lario holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. In 2001 he completed the *Master's degree for Specialist Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language* at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also completed the Teaching Certificate course (CAP) at the Institute of Education Sciences and the *Master's degree in Italian-Spanish Translation* at the Institute of Translators and Modern Languages. He also obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the UCM's Department of Philology I.

From 2000 to 2008 he taught regularly at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on the Spanish Courses for International Students, the General Courses in Spanish Language and Culture, the DELE preparation courses and the Intensive Courses for Erasmus students of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme. He has worked as a teacher at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish since it was founded in 2009.

In 2001 he was appointed Spanish language assistant at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy, where he taught until 2003. There he published the handbook *Cuestiones sintácticas y gramaticales fundamentales de la lengua española*.

He has been a tutor on the UCM Master's degree for Specialist Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language, where he has also taught modules and run training tutorials.

As a materials writer, he contributed to Module 5 of *Hola, ¿qué tal?*, produced in collaboration with the publisher SM and the Cervantes Institute.

In 2004 he was awarded a research grant on the project "Base de datos para un diccionario combinatorio del español", directed by Ignacio Bosque Muñoz.

From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a technical editor in the reference department of Ediciones SM, writing, proofreading, revising and editing dictionaries.

Carmen García

Carmen García Benito has held a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 1987. She has completed the Teaching Certificate course (CAP) and doctoral coursework at the UCM, as well as the Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at Universitas Nebrissensis, Fundación Antonio de Nebrija, in 1991-1992, and other training courses in the field.

She taught Spanish to international students on the Complutense Courses from 1989 until the creation of the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE), where she has taught since its foundation. She teaches on the Intensive Courses for Erasmus students of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme organised by the CCEE and on the courses for the UCM's international students. She has also taught on the Courses for International Students (1992-1997) at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander and at various companies and private language schools. From 2004 to 2009 she taught Spanish language and literature at secondary level at Colegio Nuestra Señora de Santa María in Madrid.

Until 1997 she combined her teaching with the post of deputy director of the Miguel Antonio Caro Hall of Residence at the Universidad Complutense, organising cultural activities for university students and discussion sessions for Spanish teachers from secondary schools in the United States.

She takes part in the DELE examinations held at the UCM and is accredited for levels A1, A2 and A1 for schoolchildren.

Aarón Garrido Ruiz de los Paños

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Aarón Garrido Ruiz de los Paños holds a degree in German Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1996) and the *Magíster* qualification for specialist teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language from the same university (1997). He completed his doctoral teaching credits in the Department of Spanish Philology I at the UCM and obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies in 2004.

He has taught at the CCEE since its foundation. Previously, from 1998, he taught on the UCM's inter-faculty courses in Spanish as a Foreign Language.

From 1999 to 2009 he taught a range of subjects on visiting North American university programmes at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, including Northern Illinois, North Dakota, Texas A&M and the University of Kentucky, among others, as well as various Spanish as a Foreign Language courses run by that university.

He has also taught and tutored on North American university programmes such as Marquette University (2004), Boston College (2002-2004), Vanderbilt University (2002) and the Institute for European Studies (2000).

He has been a DELE examiner since 1998 and is accredited at levels A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2.

He coordinates the DELE examinations held at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish.

In 2016 he jointly designed, administered and marked a placement test for tourism students at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

He taught German at the Institute of Modern Languages of the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (2006-2008).

As a teacher trainer he has, since 1998, taught modules, seminars and courses in Spain (CCEE, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cervantes Institute, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid Association of Doctors and Graduates) and abroad (Cervantes Institutes in Bremen, Frankfurt and Berlin, and the Universidade do Porto).

He has coordinated the teacher-training courses in Spanish as a Foreign Language run by the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (2009-2015) and, before that, the Advanced Philology Courses in the teaching of Spanish run by the UCM General Foundation.

He has taught and served as academic tutor and coordinator on the UCM's in-house Master's degree for specialist teachers of Spanish.

He is co-author of *Competencia gramatical en uso. B2* (EDELSA) and of articles such as "La Enseñanza de la gramática en niveles superiores" (*New Routes*, Brazil), "El Componente Cultural en el Aprendizaje de ELE" (*Forma*, SGEL) and "Contraste español-alemán de las preposiciones de más frecuencia de uso" (*Frecuencia L*, Edinumen).

María Guijarro Sanz

María Guijarro Sanz holds a European PhD in Applied Linguistics for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2017). Her thesis examines Cognitive Grammar — and specifically Construction Grammar and cognitive processing — as a route to more effective grammar instruction for students of Chinese origin. Her project involved recording and analysing errors in relative clauses among Chinese speakers, designing specific cognitive-based materials to eliminate those errors, testing those materials with students (n=74) and carrying out a statistical analysis of the results, which showed a statistically significant improvement among the students taught with the protocol materials.

She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2010) with a specialisation in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, and completed the UCM Master's degree in the same field (2011). Since 2010 she has been a member of the research team "Creación de materiales para un nuevo modelo en la Enseñanza/Aprendizaje del español como Lengua Segunda" (MNPEALS), developing, testing and creating technological tools for the optimal development of the Spanish learning process: platforms, dictionaries and web applications.

During her degree she undertook study periods in Beijing (Beijing Foreign Studies University, 2005), London (University College London, 2007) and Granada (Universidad de Granada, 2008), and a doctoral research stay in Heidelberg, Germany (Heidelberg University, 2015), where she carried out an experiment on cognitive processing among learners of Spanish using eye-tracking to analyse and compare the processing of relative clauses.

She is in regular contact with Mandarin and Asian culture. She is also passionate about all forms of art, and poetry in particular. She has a command of English (C1), speaks French (B1) and German (A2), and has some knowledge of Chinese (A1).

She currently teaches intensive immersion courses for Chinese students and Intensive Courses for Erasmus students of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish.

Sierri Hinojosa Ruz

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Sierri Hinojosa Ruz has held a degree in *Hispanic Philology* from the University of Barcelona (UB) since 1997. That same year she obtained the *Teaching Aptitude Certificate* (CAP), also at the UB. In 2006 she completed the *Master's degree for Specialist Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language* at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

She has taught in various capacities since 1998 and, since 2006, has worked regularly with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on the Spanish Courses for International Students, the General Courses in Spanish Language and Culture, the DELE preparation courses and the Intensive Courses for Erasmus students of the European SOCRATES/ERASMUS Programme, as well as on Spanish immersion courses for Chinese-speaking students. She has worked as a teacher at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish since its creation in 2009. In parallel she has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) and at various private schools.

She specialises in DELE preparation courses and is a certified examiner at levels A1, C1 and C2. Since 2006 she has served on the examining boards for the oral paper of that diploma.

In 2010 she published, together with Arancha Pastor, the paper *La cesión del protagonismo al alumno chino: la implementación del enfoque comunicativo en la clase de expresión oral*, in the proceedings of the first meeting of teachers of Spanish for Chinese speakers organised by the University of Jaén. That same year she taught a teacher-training course on *teaching Spanish to Chinese students*.

Since 2007 she has worked as a trainer of teachers of Spanish for migrants with the ASTI Association.

José Vicente Martínez García

José Vicente Martínez García holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he also completed his doctoral coursework and carried out research on a wide range of subjects (the art of navigation in the sixteenth century, an approach to the Kabbalah, the verse epistle in poetics from 1561 to 1635, and marginal and protest poetry in various manuscripts held at the National Library, among others). His doctoral thesis, on the Golden Age, is still in progress. His training includes courses in the teaching of Spanish, in radio (from which came *Las tribulaciones de Rufino*, a comic verse sketch), in maritime signalling (telecommunications) and in music (music theory and music history). He is a qualified Airport Operations Technician and a person of wide-ranging curiosity.

He has taught Spanish to international students at the UCM since 1998 and at the CCEE since its foundation, working across all levels and areas of teaching. He is a member of the Complutense DELE examining board and is accredited by the Cervantes Institute as an examiner for the B levels. In the 2003/04 academic year he was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Education to open the first Russian-Spanish bilingual school in St Petersburg, where he drew up curriculum plans for different levels in addition to teaching and lecturing. Other work of note includes the translation and writing of news items for the magazine *Cable y Satélite*, membership of the team that drew up projects on the cable business in Spain for presentation to the relevant ministry (technical English, telecommunications and US cable law), and proofreading and copy-editing of books and periodicals for two companies.

His training, his work and his own needs have led him to study Latin, Classical Greek, English and a little Russian, and he has studied texts in Galician, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian. He has a genuine interest in the evolution of Spanish from Latin and in etymology. He loves classical music and is grateful to all his teachers.

María Miquel Bautista

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María Miquel Bautista holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with intra-curricular specialisations in Linguistics and in Spanish for International Students. She completed her training with the official Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language and the Teaching Aptitude Certificate (CAP), both at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is accredited by the Cervantes Institute as a DELE examiner at levels B1 and B2 and has served on the oral examining boards for that examination at the Universidad Complutense.

She continues her professional development by attending the International House and Difusión meetings in Barcelona and Madrid, the Universidad Nebrija conferences for teacher training in Spanish as a Foreign Language, and various courses on teacher training and on the use of new technologies in the classroom.

In 2009 she was awarded a language assistantship at the Ferrara and Crispi Technical Institutes in Palermo, Italy. While in Italy she also taught on the DELE preparation courses at I.T.C. Ferrara. In 2008 she worked for the publisher Anaya on cataloguing and compiling the historical archive of the Anaya Educación division. She has taught at the Eureka academy in Madrid and worked as a teaching assistant at the UNESCO Language Campus in Gdańsk, Poland.

She currently teaches Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish, with which she has been associated since 2009, teaching on the general courses and on the Erasmus programme classes for European students.

Leonor Montilla Gil

Leonor Montilla has held a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 1996 and a diploma in Tourism since 1994. In 1997 she joined the teaching staff of the Spanish as a Foreign Language courses run by the UCM Faculty of Philology. She also teaches students on the Erasmus programme and on DELE preparation courses, and serves on the examining board for that diploma.

She has worked at other centres, including CEA Global Campus, as a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language (2007-2010). She has tutored students on the UCM postgraduate course in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language. Between 1999 and 2002 she taught speech therapy for profoundly deaf children at the San Nicolás Centre.

She teaches Spanish on a range of North American programmes.

Within the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish she is responsible for Academic and Cultural Activities, the department that organises the cultural programme accompanying students' language learning: visits to museums and exhibitions, guided cultural walks through different parts of Madrid, and trips to other Spanish cities and regions (Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Asturias, Toledo, Segovia, among others).

She has published articles and contributed to literature books as well as to a verb conjugation handbook for learners of Spanish as a foreign language (*Vamos a conjugar*, Madrid: Edinumen, 2000). Since 2011 she has taught Spanish Art and History on the Advanced Course in Language and Culture.

Francisco J. Olmedo Bernal

European PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with the thesis *El teatro breve de Alonso de Olmedo: estudio y edición*.

Since 1996 he has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language on the courses of the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE), has been a member of the DELE examining board and has taught on the Erasmus programme for European students.

He has taught on American university programmes in Madrid such as UCEAP-ACCENT (University of California), I.S.A. (International Studies Abroad) and Stanford University in Madrid.

Between 1999 and 2000 he was Spanish language assistant at the Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy, where, in addition to teaching Spanish, he ran an extensive programme of cultural activities (cinema, poetry, theatre).

He enjoys combining the teaching of Spanish with literature and theatre, through texts read, performed or written by the students themselves. He taught the Theatre Workshop for eight years for Universidades Norteamericanas Reunidas and teaches Spanish Literature on the Advanced Course in Culture at the CCEE.

He has taken teacher-training courses in Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Cervantes Institute and at the Universidad Complutense itself.

He has published two books of poetry and contributed to publications on Baroque theatre with the publishers Gredos and Pliegos. He gets by in English, Italian and French.

Elena Palacios Gutiérrez

Elena Palacios Gutiérrez holds a PhD in *History and Theory of Theatre* from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2015) and a degree in Hispanic Philology, also from the UCM (2003), with intra-curricular specialisations in *Spanish Language* and *Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature*. She held a scholarship under the national *University Teacher Training* programme (FPU, 2005-2007) and was subsequently employed by the UCM as a researcher (2007-2009). Within that programme she undertook short research stays at the *Centre de Recherche sur l'Espagne Contemporaine* (CREC), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (2009). She has taken part in several research projects on literature and the performing arts, as well as in the *BIESES* project (Bibliography of Spanish Women Writers) at the UNED, and has published widely in the field.

In the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language, she is a *Specialist in the Didactics of Business Spanish* (UCM) and has completed the Cervantes Institute's *Virtual Classroom Tutor Training* course, as well as others on online student tutoring. She has both attended and delivered seminars on the use of Moodle in language teaching. Her training also includes the UCM *Advanced Philology Course in Spanish as a Foreign Language* and courses on pragmatics, interculturality, games and activities, teaching Chinese students, and new technologies applied to the field.

Since 2003 she has worked regularly on the Complutense courses for international students and, since its creation in 2009, at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish, teaching a range of subjects and levels on both the regular and the summer courses. She has also taught on the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme organised by the CCEE at the request of the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations, and on others such as ERASMUS MUNDUS-MONABIPHOT for the UCM Faculty of Chemical Sciences. In teacher training, she has tutored on the *Specialist in the Didactics of Business Spanish* course (online). She has also been an accredited DELE examiner since 2009 and has worked as a tutor for American universities including Tulane, Indiana, Wisconsin and Purdue. She currently collaborates with the publisher enClave ELE on textbooks for teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

Arancha Pastor Haro

Arancha Pastor holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Málaga (UMA) and the *Magíster* qualification for Specialist Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. She has taught at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE) since its foundation in 2009.

Alongside her teaching, she has given papers at the training events organised by the CCEE, with sessions on "Cinema in the Spanish classroom" and "Digital tools for a livelier classroom".

She is an accredited DELE examiner at levels A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2, and has served on the examining boards for these diplomas at the Universidad Complutense since 2005.

She combines teaching with audiovisual subtitling and translation revision, disciplines from which she draws a great many applications for her Spanish classes.

Isabel Sastre Pintado

isasastr@ucm.es

Isabel Sastre Pintado holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 1995 she completed the Teaching Certificate course (CAP) at the Institute of Education Sciences. In 1996 she completed the first year of doctoral studies specialising in Latin American Literature. She has also taken various training courses at the Cervantes Institute, among them "Literature in the Spanish classroom", and has attended a number of webinars run by the publisher Difusión. She also attended a training course at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish on the use of ICT in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

Since 1998 she has worked regularly at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, teaching on the Spanish Courses for International Students and the intensive courses for Erasmus students of the European Socrates/Erasmus programme, and serving on the DELE examining board. She has worked as a teacher at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish (CCEE) since its creation in 2009.

From 1996 to 2000 she taught Spanish at various schools in Madrid, including Estudio Sampere, Open English, InLingua, Carpe Diem and Transfer School of English, as well as giving private classes, among them Spanish for United States military personnel (Spanish Air Force, Madrid).

Juan Trouillhet Manso

Juan Trouillhet Manso has held a PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) since 2007, with a thesis entitled *Shakespeare, Valle-Inclán y la renovación teatral española*. He also holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1995) and completed doctoral coursework at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2000) in the Art, Literature and Philosophy programme. Since January 1998 he has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Complutense Centre for the Teaching of Spanish, UCM. He has also taught Spanish to international students at the University of Illinois Chicago (2000-2006), the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2007-2008) and the Cervantes Institute in Chicago (2006-2007), where he also ran training courses for teachers in Chicago's public schools.

In 2011 he published, together with Juana Ruiz Mena and Cristina Aliaga, *Habla, método de aprendizaje de español para personas extranjeras A1-A2*. He has taken part in and published at numerous literature conferences on the work of Ramón del Valle-Inclán, as well as in journals such as *El pasajero* and *Cuadrante*.

In addition to teaching Spanish across all skills and levels, he directs and teaches a Spanish cookery course for international students at the centre. He is also working on a reading guide to *Don Quijote de la Mancha* and helps to organise a philosophy café. His academic interests range across Spanish language teaching, cookery courses and classes in Spanish culture and literature, particularly the Spanish Civil War through cinema and literature, the work of Valle-Inclán and fantastic literature. Outside academia he is especially keen on sport — football, cycling and running — as well as cooking, mountains, sailing, meditation and yoga.

Beatriz del Valle Martínez

Beatriz del Valle Martínez graduated in Hispanic Philology in 1988 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she went on to complete her doctoral coursework.

In 1989 she began teaching Spanish as a second language on the former UCM Courses for International Students (today's CCEE), where she still teaches. She therefore directed her professional development towards this field, obtaining the qualification of Specialist Teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language in 1992. Since then she has regularly taken courses and seminars on specific aspects of second language teaching and acquisition (neurolinguistics, suggestopedia, interculturality, assessment, and others).

Between 1990 and 1999 she worked as a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language at Tandem Escuela Internacional, where she learned above all to work as part of a team and to design teaching sequences of varying length according to the learning objectives and the needs of the students.

Since 1998 she has also taught at Middlebury College's Madrid campus. She has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at other institutions, both in Spain (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, State University of New York in Madrid and Georgetown University) and in the United States (Clark University in Massachusetts and Middlebury College in Vermont).

Within the UCM Courses she also served as academic coordinator (1998-2008) and was a member of the various working groups set up between 1999 and 2001 to draft the syllabus for the courses and to create the corresponding teaching materials.

Between 1995 and 2000 she was co-director and a member of the editorial board of *FRECUENCIA-L*, a publication for teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language.