Master's degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Menéndez Pelayo International University), DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) 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 second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, CDA (Content and Language Analysis), linguistic ideologies, and Spanish for heritage and first-generation speakers.