Dr Isabel Molina Vidal
- Position: Lecturer in Spanish/Year Abroad Tutor for Spanish and Portuguese
- Areas of expertise: Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Second Language; The use of Technology in SLA; Teaching of Spanish Grammar from a Cognitive Grammar perspective; Teacher Trainer. Translation.
- Email: I.MolinaVidal@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 7107
- Location: MS 2.42b Michael Sadler
- Website: LinkedIn
Profile
Dr of Philosophy with the School of Education at the University of Leeds. My thesis was on The use of synchronous computer-mediated communication text-based online chat to self-repair recurrent errors in indicative-subjunctive-related structures when speaking in advanced learners of Spanish
Degree in Translation and Interpretation at the University of Alicante and MA in Technology, Education and Learning at the University of Leeds.
I have been teaching Spanish as a foreign language since 2003. From 2004 to 2012 I was Head of Studies and teacher of Spanish as a foreign language at the Language School Estudio Sampere in Alicante (Spain). Since 2013 I have been working at Instituto Cervantes Manchester-Leeds as a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language and teacher trainer. I also taught Spanish language and culture courses at the University of Leeds and the University of Huddersfield from 2014 to 2018. I have published the paper “Thinking the Grammar: Teaching a cognitive grammar in a blended-learning context” in The Language Scholar at the University of Leeds. I worked as a Spanish Lecturer and Spanish and Portuguese year abroad coordinator at the University of Leeds in 2018-2019. In 2019 I was awarded the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. I have been awarded the title of Dr of Philosophy in February 2025 by the University of Leeds.
Responsibilities
- Teaching and coordination of Spanish Language Modules
- Coordination of UG going on their year abroad to Spanish and Portuguese- speaking countries
Professional memberships
- FHEA