Manel Lacorte

Manel Lacorte (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland) is Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of the MA track in Hispanic Applied Linguistics at the University of Maryland. He has worked as an Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies at the Spanish School of Middlebury College since 2009, where he also teaches graduate courses on language teaching methodology and pedagogy. His research focuses on second language (L2) and heritage language (HL) pedagogy and teacher education; L2 classroom interaction and context(s); applied linguistics; and sociopolitical issues in L2 and HL teaching and learning. Manel has published over 40 book chapters and journal articles, and edited or co-edited 7 books, among them Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Language Learning: Teaching Spanish to Heritage Speakers (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), and The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge 2018). Manel has also edited two special issues on Spanish language teaching methodology and Spanish teaching in the US for Miríada Hispánica (2013) and Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (2014). He has recently co-authored two textbooks: Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: Teoría y práctica and Guía didáctica y material de apoyo para cursos sobre lingüística hispánica (Routledge 2017). He is associate editor of the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge).