MAGDALENA CUSTODIO ESPINAR

Affiliation

Universidad de Jaén

Biography

Magdalena Custodio Espinar was born in Granada, Spain in 1971. After more than 15 years working as a CLIL teacher at state schools, she received her PhD in Education in 2018 from Complutense University of Madrid and received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2019. She graduated with honors from the same university and has Master’s Degrees in Management and Leadership of Schools from The International University of La Rioja (UNIR), La Rioja, Spain, and Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain. Magdalena was Technical Advisory Teacher for the Regional Ministry of Education, Madrid, Spain. Besides, she has provided in-service and pre-service teacher training in numerous courses and has extensively published her research on bilingual education and CLIL in indexed scientific journals and reputed publishing houses. She has been invited as a visiting scholar in prestigious universities, such as Granada University, the University of Castile La Mancha, and the Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan, where she is honorary member of the Japan CLIL Pedagogy Association (J-CLIL). Currently, she is teaching and researching in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at Comillas Pontifical University. Research interests include teacher training, didactic programming, CLIL, FLT, ELT, EMI, and co-teaching.