Tatiana Ferrer, Ph.D. Fellow

Tatiana Ferrer received the title of Instructor of Basic General Education in November of 2006, in Mendoza, Argentina. After moving to Houston, she decided to continue her academic training and, in August 2013, she completed a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Sciences at the University of Houston. In August 2015, she graduated with a master’s degree in Spanish Linguistics and she also had the opportunity to study in Spain, at the University of Salamanca, completing a master’s degree in Hispanic Culture and Spanish Language in mid-2015. She is currently an ABD candidate at the University from Houston expecting to graduate by the end of Summer 2020. As a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Linguistics, her doctoral research is based on a pedagogical intervention study that analyzes the incidence of Active Learning Pedagogy in the acquisition of languages; with main focus in the influence of technological learning environments, Digital Humanities, and Applied Linguistics.
She has couched a series of seminars for k-12 and college instructors of second/foreign languages and directed workshops on curriculum planning, teaching methodology, and Pedagogy. She has presented her research findings in different areas of Linguistics at over fifteen national and international conferences and published an article about the teaching-learning process based on the construction of learning from recreational practices. She co-authored another two articles that were published in Cuba in 2017; currently she has a manuscript in preparation about the incidence of Digital Input in Second Language Acquisition.
She has completed a series of certifications such as Distance Education (2016), Learner-Centered Instructional Design (2016), Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language (2017), Copyright Literacy in the Academic Environment (2017), Creating an Active-Learning Environment (2019), and Teaching with Technology (2020) among many other.
She is an instructor for the Hispanic Studies Department, and the College of Education at the University of Houston teaching courses related to Spanish as a Second Language, Spanish as a Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the World Language Department at the Houston Community College where she teaches Spanish for native and heritage speakers.