Ms Cristina Garcia Hermoso

Ms Cristina Garcia Hermoso is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern Languages and Linguistics (MLL) at the University of Southampton.

Cristina graduated from Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1991 with a degree in Modern Languages. Since then, she has taught at various institutions in the state and private sector. Cristina joined Southampton University in 2007. In July 2015, Cristina qualified as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), after completing the course in the Professional Recognition of Educator Practice Framework (PREP). In July 2016, Cristina was awarded the Second prize for the ELE teacher of the year 2015, for the project "Manos a la obra", (in collaboration with Carmen Martín de León), working with parallel texts. In November 2012, Cristina received a staff achievement award in recognition of contribution to Santander Language Courses at the University of Southampton.  As well as Coordinator for Spanish Stage 5, Cristina teaches Spanish in various stages, translation into English for Spanish stages 6 and 7 and Public Service Interpreting (PSI).  Cristina has also been Erasmus Coordinator and has held the position of Senior Tutor pastoral at the University of Southampton.

In June 2018 Cristina became a UNILANG assessor by the UNILANG Certification Committee and has acted as External Examiner for the Spanish Department of the School of Management of Cardiff Metropolitan University (Sept. ´14- July ´18), for the Spanish Department of The Business School of Edinburgh Napier University (Oct.´17 – Dec. ´21) and in Sept. ´21 was appointed as Module External  Examiner for French, German, Italian and Spanish at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Cristina´s top priority is creating opportunities for our students to develop autonomy and self-reliance as well as their all-important language skills. Cristina´s research interests are geared towards improving students´ communicative competence.  Cristina co-wrote a book on the subject, which provides tips and activities for Spanish students to organize texts and use language creatively: Palabras Clave para organizar textos en español (2019) Ed. Routledge.

Other information on pedagogical research and further publications, please access Cristina´s page on PURE (pure.soton.ac.uk).

Prizes

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. (2015)