Phone:

(023) 8059 3488

Email:

P.Romero@soton.ac.uk

Dr Patricia Romero de Mills PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Dr Patricia Romero de Mills is a Lecturer in Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.

I completed a degree in Philosophy and Hispanic Literature (Laurate) at the University of Guanajuato (UG), Mexico, where my experience teaching at higher education began as tutor of both English and Spanish as foreign languages. My involvement in the languages department at UG expanded to the area of Language Teacher Education, which gave me the opportunity to collaborate with novice language teachers with whom I shared my own teaching philosophy and practice through a series of seminars and workshops of my own design. By 2001 I was also appointed as a Teacher Educator for the Escuela Normal Superior de Guanajuato (a Government teacher training college) training primary and secondary teachers of English, who would be appointed to teach in some of the most deprived areas of the Guanajuato State. In 2008 I was awarded a PhD in Applied Linguistics by the University of Southampton for my thesis The Development of Criticality amongst Students of Spanish, in which I looked at the different components of Modern Languages degree programmes at higher education (e.g. language classes, content classes, the Year Abroad) and the impact of these elements on the intellectual growth of undergraduate students of languages.

In May 2013 I was honoured to be nominated by the Modern Languages and Linguistics students for the Excellence in Teaching Award, a competition organized by the University of Southampton Student Union. I was the Faculty winner (Arts and Humanities) in the category Innovative Teaching.