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Gloria Macarena Toledo Vega is an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC). She holds a PhD in Philology from the University of Valladolid (2012). Since 1998 she has been working as a Spanish/ L2 teacher for the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), the Stanford University Study Center in Chile and the University of British Columbia, Canada. She teaches classes in the areas of Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics and is head of the SFL program and the Specialization Diploma in SFL program. Her research has to do with the development of Spanish among Haitian immigrants in Chile and the relationship between the acquisition and development of additional languages and socio-cultural immersion. On this topic, she is the author of several articles. She has been awarded research funds at national level and has collaborated with organisations such as the Jesuit Service for Migrants and Spanish schools for immigrants within Chile.
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