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Mari Kruse is a Lecturer in Spanish Language and Linguistics at the University of Tartu's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures. She holds a Doctor's Degree (2018) and Master's Degree (2007) from the University of Tartu, specializing in Germanic and Romance Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on applied linguistics, foreign language teaching methodologies, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, particularly examining the role of false friends in language learning and the cognitive processes in multilingual writing.
Her career spans over a decade at the University of Tartu, starting as an Assistant in Spanish Philology (2005) and progressing to her current position. She has contributed to terminology projects, including adapting technical databases into language resources. Kruse has received the Estonian Terminology Board award (2018) for her work on dissertation summaries.
Research interests include multilingual writing strategies, cross-linguistic lexical influences, and academic writing practices. She collaborates on projects analyzing source use in multilingual writing and error patterns in language production. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical pedagogical applications, emphasizing the social and cognitive dimensions of language learning.