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Lourdes Barquín Sanmartín
Lourdes Barquín Sanmartín
is a Teaching Fellow at University College Dublin and holds a PhD in Language Acquisition and Language Teaching from the University of Edinburgh. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Her research centers on Spanish acquisition by native English speakers, particularly focusing on positive grammatical transfers between proximal languages. With a background in British education, Lourdes specializes in students with English as their first language (L1), French as their second language (L2), and Spanish as their third language (L3). Her work emphasizes the similarities between French and Spanish to aid in learning past aspectual and modal contrasts. To address this, Lourdes advocates for the pluralistic teaching approach of Inter-comprehension, which helps students utilize their previously-acquired languages as a tool to enhance both their linguistic awareness and comprehension, offering a holistic strategy for language learning.
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