Sharon Wilson Foerster

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Sharon W. Foerster, from the United States, received her Master's degree from Boston University in 1975 and her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, where she was Coordinator of Lower Division Courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, she was the Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain for four years. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute and as Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. She retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, but she continues to teach Spanish in the Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is also the lead author of five Spanish Language textbooks for college-level students published by McGraw-Hill: Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (1999, 2004, 2007), Lecturas Literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Literacy (2006), Metas: Spanish in Review (2007), Metas comunicativas para maestros (1996,1999), Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998). She is also co-author of Supplementary Materials to Accompany Puntos de Partida (1994, 1998, 2001, 2004).

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