Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Menéndez Pelayo International University), DEA in English Philology (University of Huelva), Bachelor's degrees in Linguistics (Complutense University of Madrid), Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Journalism (University of Seville). Her main lines of research are: teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, affective factors in L2, sociolinguistics, CDA, linguistic ideologies, and Spanish for heritage and first-generation speakers.