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Published on: 1/19/2008
Last Visited: 1/19/2008
Sebastián Bianchi
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Sebastián Bianchi
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A. Sebastián Bianchi
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Sebastián is the Spanish language specialist at the Centre.He is responsible for coordinating the CULP Spanish teaching team, teaching at all levels and making sure that all the material used to teach and learn Spanish is the most updated, varied and enticing.
A very enthusiastic writer, he continues to author online material for CULP, such as a revision multimedia programme, 'Trotamundos lingüísticos', and 'Spanish At Your Fingertips'. for the LC and the BBC.He is also the co-author of a series of four coursebooks for AS/A2 Level published by Philip Allan Updates, and writes articles for 'Vida Hispánica' (Association for Language Learning (ALL)).
Sebastián's background is in English Language and Literature, with a B.Ed. obtained in his home city, Corrientes, Argentina, where he carried out resesarch into Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.He completed a Master's degree in Literary Studies at De Montfort University, England, and has lectured on Scots, Irish and English Literature, as well as on the writing of teaching material for Spanish as a Foreign Language in Argentina.
Since 1995, he has taught Spanish Language and Culture at all levels at a range of institutions in Cambridge, including the University's School of Education, Homerton College, Churchill College and the Language Unit of the Engineering Department, where he is also a Lector.
His main interests are languages and literature, a passion he combines by also publishing historic novels in Argentina.