Esther Castro

25 Ciruti Center
Office Hours: Mondays: 12:30-2 & by appt.
413-538-2057
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Esther Castro Cuenca is originally from Madrid, where she received a Licenciatura. in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense. She received a M.A. in the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language at the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija. While in Madrid, she worked as a Spanish instructor in different institutions (Cámara de Comercio de Madrid, Escuela de Verano de la Universidad Complutense, and other schools). Middlebury College was Esther’s first destination in the United States, where she coordinated the Spanish House during two academic years, and taught different courses at the Spanish Language School for three summers. She received her second M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), where she is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation on the acquisition of inalienable possession structures in Spanish L2. While in Amherst, she has been a Spanish instructor at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst College. Her research interests focus on Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics and interfaces between psycholinguistics and language learning/teaching.