Prados López, María

María is a PhD candidate in Languages and Cultures at the University of Huelva and a Spanish language instructor (lector) at the University of Coimbra under the Fundación Ramón Areces Lectureship Programme. She graduated in Hispanic Philology from the University of Jaén and holds two master's degrees from the University of Granada. She has worked as a pre-doctoral researcher (personal investigador en formación) on a competitive research project funded by the Regional Government of Andalucía, and has completed research stays at Aix-Marseille University (France) and the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Her research focuses on the reading process in Spanish as an additional language. She is a member of the ReALL Research Group (HUM-657) and COIDESO, and her publications and conference papers focus on reading, adult literacy, and language teaching.