Miguel Tarifa

Miguel Tarifa is a native Spanish speaker who graduated from the University of Granada with a BA in Philosophy in 2008. Miguel continued his studies by studying an MA in Pedagogy at UNED, Madrid, and specialised in Language Development at University College London, gaining a MSc in Neuroscience and Language Sciences. Miguel has ten years of experience in teaching Spanish across a variety of programmes and joined the Modern Language Centre at King’s College London in 2014. He is also a teacher trainer and freelance learning consultant.

Miguel is specially interested in instructional design and the cognitive processes involved in language learning.

Experience

• Spanish language teacher
  King's College London

• Visiting teacher of Spanish
  London Business School

• Visiting Lecturer of Spanish
  ESCP Business School

• Learning and Development Consultant
  Battersea Spanish

• Teacher trainer/ DELE examiner
  Instituto Cervantes London

• Tutor of Spanish
  South Thames College

• in-house corporate language training (Spanish)
  Mott MacDonald

• in-house corporate language training (Spanish)
  DWF

Education

• UCL
  MSc, Neuroscience and Language Sciences (with specialisation in Language Development)

• Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
  Master of Education - MEd, Vocational Training, Language Teaching, Secondary Education

• Universidad de Granada
  Bachelor's degree, Physics and Philosophy