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Silvia Sobral is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She holds a Licenciatura in English Language and Literature from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1993) and an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995). Her expertise spans Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Pedagogy, and Heritage Language Teaching, with a focus on Spanish in the U.S. context. She has co-authored textbooks like Dicho y Hecho: Beginning Spanish and contributed to teaching materials.
- Research Interests: Bridging language acquisition theory with classroom practice, sociolinguistics of Spanish in the U.S., teacher training methodologies.
- Teaching: Courses include Basic Spanish (HISP 0100/0200), Advanced Spanish (HISP 0500), Hispanic Linguistics (HISP 0710C), and Language Teaching Theory (HISP 2990A).
Affiliated with ACTFL and AATSP, she emphasizes practical applications of linguistic research in education. Her publications reflect a commitment to improving language pedagogy through structured curriculum design and classroom innovation.
