Alicia Muñoz Sánchez

Dr. Alicia Muñoz Sánchez manages all Spanish instruction in the Linguistics Language Program at UC San Diego, where she leads the development of the Spanish curriculum and the training of instructors. Her academic expertise spans the areas of second language acquisition, language teaching, Spanish in the United States, and Spanish for specific purposes. Dr. Muñoz Sánchez regularly teaches the upper-division undergraduate courses LIGN 119 First and Second Language Acquisition: from Childhood to Adolescence, and LIGN 178 Spanish Sociolinguistics. 

Her book, Spanish for Health Care and Human Services:  An Interdisciplinary Approach (co-authored with Dr. Natalia Santamaría Laorden), stems from her work on the development of intercultural competence in the teaching of Spanish for health sciences.  Her most recent publication, Tapices: An Intermediate Spanish Language Textbook (with Marqués-Pascual, Laura), incorporates critical pedagogies as well as evidence-based methodologies (task-based and project-based) to support language acquisition.

With the support of the Anti-Racist Pedagogy Fellowship at UC San Diego, she is currently investigating the use of Spanish in university campuses using linguistic landscapes and survey data. This work is a collaboration with Alejandro Rodríguez Aispuro and Lorenzo Sianez Jr. 

She has been the lead co-organizer of UCSD's International Mother Language Day since 2020 and current member of the UCSD Language Diversity Committee

Contact Information:

• E-mail: amunoz@ucsd.edu 

• Office: Applied Physics & Mathematics Building (AP&M) 3121

• Phone: (858) 534-2525 (voice)

• Mailing Address: 9500 Gilman Dr. #0108, La Jolla, CA 92093-0108