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Dr. María Jesús Barros García is a Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University (NU) and Director of the Spanish Language Program. She holds an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language and a doctoral degree with Honors in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Granada. Between 2011-2012, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her research focuses on intercultural pragmatics, politeness theory, and second language acquisition, with over 30 publications in these areas. She teaches undergraduate courses on linguistics, literature, culture, border studies, language pedagogy, film, heritage language instruction, and Spanish for specific purposes. At the graduate level, she specializes in curriculum development, assessment methods, and integrating culture into language education.
- Serves on multiple committees at Northwestern University
- Former course coordinator for Spanish 121
- Co-organizer of Tacita de Café, an extracurricular program for Spanish heritage speakers
Professional affiliations include:
- Communications/PD Coordinator for the Downstate Illinois chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
- Collaborator Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language
- Certified DELE Spanish Diploma Tester (A1-C2)
- Member of the Modern Language Association (MLA)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- Applied Linguistics Research Group HUM-277
- Spanish Linguistics Society
- Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language
