Professor Dr. Eduardo Negueruela Azarola

Biography

Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s degree in TESOL from West Virginia University. His scholarship focuses on language teaching, learning, and testing from a sociocultural psychology perspective. His publications center around participatory action research methodologies, second language acquisition (SLA), and concepts of transformative thinking, creativity development, and storytelling in L2 learning. He has directed multiple doctoral dissertations on these topics. Before coming to Princeton, he directed the ILCE MA program in Spanish L2 Teaching at Universidad de Navarra in Spain for seven years. He was also the director of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for three years and held the same position at the University of Miami for ten years. Eduardo has been an invited professor, teaching graduate seminars at various institutions, including Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, Aarhus University in Denmark, and St. Michael's College, Rutgers University Camden, and Middlebury College in the USA.

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