Ellen J Serafini Author

Cristina Sanz, PhD, is Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics at Georgetown University, where she directs the Spanish program for students in the School of Foreign Service and the intensive program, recognized with the AAUSC Innovation Award for Inclusion and Social Justice. She also established and directs the Georgetown summer program in Barcelona. As an expert in bilingualism, she has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications, often with graduate students, and has trained hundreds of teachers in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines during her thirty years in the profession.

Ellen J. Serafini, PhD, is Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Classics and Modern Languages at George Mason University. where she also directs the graduate program and online Spanish Heritage Language Education Graduate Certificate program. In both research and teaching, she applies critical task-based approaches to explore and foster the development of critical language awareness and agency among Spanish students and teachers in diverse learning and social contexts. Her work appears in several academic journals and edited volumes, and she has over twenty years of experience teaching Spanish and training teachers at the primary, secondary, and university level.

Inma Taboada, PhD, is Associate Clinical Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she directs the undergraduate and graduate Spanish, French, and German teacher training programs. She teaches classes in theoretical linguistics, and language teaching methodology, focusing on the integration of culture in the language classroom and language teaching from a social justice perspective.