Raúl graduated from Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain) in December 2017 with a Ph.D. in Humanities, focusing on Spanish and French Linguistics, as well as on Second Language Acquisition. His former education includes a Master’s Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Pablo de Olavide University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics from the University of Limoges (France). Raúl has more than fifteen years of diverse teaching experiences around the world, which has provided him with a global, comparative and comprehensive vision of language education. Concerning higher education, Raúl has extensive experience in teaching language, culture, and linguistic courses in the United States (Viterbo University and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, in Wisconsin) and China (Jilin International Studies University, in Changchun, and XJTLU). He has also experience in pre-college education in which includes two years in secondary education, and seven years in conservatories and schools of music in Spain.

Psycholinguistics

Hispanic and French Linguistics

Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

Vocabulary Acquisition and Teaching

Senior Language Lecturer. Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China (August 2020 - Present)

Assistant Professor. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA (2017 - 2020)

Associate Professor. Jilin International Studies University, Changchun, Jilin, China (2016 - 2017)

Adjunct Instructor. Viterbo University, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA (January 2015 - June 2016)