Teacher Education

Matthew Street

Education

M.A., Spanish Language and Literature, University of South Carolina (2013)

TEFL/TESL Certificate, International TEFL Academy & INTESOL Worldwide, Heredia, Costa Rica (2013)

B.A., Spanish, University of Louisiana at Monroe (2011)

Research Interests

  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Active Learning pedagogy
  • E-Portfolios in the foreign language classroom

Teaching

Accelerated Beginning Spanish (2013-Present)

Esther Poveda Moreno

Research Summary

A native of Madrid (Spain) Esther Poveda’s love for languages, literature and traveling started at a young age, when she decided to complete a B.A. in English Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Since then she has lived in Ireland, the United States, Spain and Guatemala, and she has travelled extensively in Europe and the Americas.

Kate Neff

Please email me for questions about SPAN 1010-2020 courses. 

Education

M.A., Spanish, University of Virginia (2008)

B.A., English and Spanish, Grove City College (2006), summa cum laude

Research Interests

  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Communicative and Proficiency-Based Pedagogy
  • Student Motivation
  • Instructional Technology (E-Portfolios)
  • Accessibility in the Language Classroom

Teaching

University of Virginia, 2014-2017

Administrative:

Stella Mattioli

Education

M.A., University of Virginia, Italian Studies; Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (2015)

B.A., Università degli Studi di Firenze, Organizzazione e gestione di eventi e imprese dell’arte e dello spettacolo; Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (2005)

Esperanza Górriz Jarque

Education

M.A., Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Menéndez Pelayo International University & Cervantes Institute (expected May 2022)

M.A., Spanish and Linguistics, West Virginia University (2013)

Certificate in University Teaching, West Virginia University (2013)                                            

M.A., English as a Foreign Language, University of Murcia, Murcia (Spain) (2008)

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