Margarita Rois Quiroga

Margarita has many years’ experience teaching Spanish to adult students of various backgrounds, in person and online. She holds a BA in Hispanic Philology.

When she moved to London in 2010, Margarita completed a Spanish Language Teaching to Adults Programme. After this, she started teaching at Further Education colleges in the UK on accredited and non-accredited programmes. In 2019 she started teaching non-degree courses at Royal Holloway University of London, where she later also taught part of some degree courses at all levels.

Margarita joined LSE in 2022 and since then has been teaching Spanish and society on the non-degree courses at different levels, and on the undergraduate program from 2023.

She studied a Master’s Degree in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language at Nebrija University. She focused her Final Research Project in the areas of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics by analysing constructs of complexity (syntactic and lexical), precision and fluency in the written linguistic production of multilingual language learners in different types of tasks. In addition, she examined the influence of emotions on arguments provided.

She is interested in how L2/L3 learners process information connected to the teaching and assessing their writing and oral discourse, as well as grading and sequencing tasks when creating learning materials.

Expertise

Second Language Acquisition, Analysis and Creation of Teaching and Learning Materials, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics