María Victoria Soulé, PhD

I am a Lecturer in Spanish Language and Culture in the Department of French and European Studies at the University of Cyprus.

I earned my Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude) from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain, in 2014. My Ph.D. dissertation received recognition with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. My doctoral research primarily focused on the role of discourse in the acquisition of tense-aspect by learners of Spanish as a second language (L2), specifically examining the distribution of the Spanish Preterit and Imperfect tenses in narratives.

Following my Ph.D., I served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. Under the supervision of Dr. Beatriz Granda, I conducted a research project titled "The influence of instruction on the development of verbal temporality in Spanish L2 within the study abroad context."

Before pursuing my Ph.D., I obtained a Master’s degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language in 2007 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. My undergraduate studies in Classical Studies were completed in 2006 at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Additionally, I attended the Modern Languages program of Spanish linguistics and literature for three years at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina in 2001.

My current research interests include: 

• Second Language Acquisition

• Spanish L2

• International Student Mobility: Study Abroad and Internationalization at Home

• Plurilingualism and Second Language Identity

• TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning)