Margarita Muñoz Piña

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Margarita Muñoz Piña,
from Mexico, graduated with honors in Mass and Organizational Communication from the ITESM campus Queretaro. Following graduate courses for a master's in Educational Administration at Ohio University, she started teaching Spanish language courses at the University of Michigan where she also became assistant coordinator. Her teaching career continued at Vassar College, Marist College, and Poughkeepsie Day School. During the summer of 2001 she completed the high beginners program at the French Language School in Middlebury College. Since the summer of 2002, she has taught for the Spanish Language School: intermediate, beginners, and high beginner's grammar, conversation, and composition courses. In 2007, Margarita completed her Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain with a project entitled: Propuesta didáctica de enseñaza-aprendizaje de ELE para un programa de inmersión lingüística: Nivel principiante-avanzado. This research project took two summers of experimentation and analysis at the Spanish School of Middlebury College. After completing her studies in Spain, she taught at Centre College in Dainville, Kentucky. She has joined the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she has been teaching Spanish grammar review at the 300-level and advanced composition courses at the 400-level.

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Margarita Muñoz Piña