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  • Phone:

    9708

  • Email:

    mvanegas@pmu.edu.sa

  • Office No:

    LRC F005

  • Mónica Marcela Ardila Vanegas

  • Job Title :

    Assistant Professor

  • College :

    Preparatory Program


  • Department :

    Preparatory Program


Mónica Ardila Vanegas is a PhD candidate in the Humanities and Communication program at UIC Barcelona. She specializes in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE). Ardila Vanegas’s work focuses on the didactics of Spanish for beginner levels, with particular interest in the use of music and popular song as pedagogical tools to enhance linguistic competence. Her experience includes A1 -A2 - B1 level Spanish teaching, contributing to the development of innovative curricular materials that facilitate language acquisition. In teaching, Ardila Vanegas emphasizes a communicative and dynamic approach and aims to help students develop listening comprehension and oral expression skills from the earliest stages. She integrates authentic cultural content to connect theory with practice. Currently, Ardila Vanegas is engaged in developing her doctoral thesis on the effectiveness of music in ELE and is interested in advancing research on active methodologies and the internationalization of language education.

 

  • PhD candidate in Education, Humanities and Communication, UIC Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2025 – Present
  • Master of Arts in Literature, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities and Spanish Language, a specialization in Primary Education, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, 2018
  •  Associate of Business Administration – ABA. CESDE Medellín, Col. 2016

 

Ardila Vanegas, M. M. (2022). Huir. En Cicatrices de América (p. 55-61). ITA Editorial

Ardila Vanegas, M. M. (2022). Cotidianidades. En Viajes inéditos: El transitar de senderos oscuros (pp. 124–126). ITA Editorial.

Ardila Vanegas, M., & Casadiegos Aponte, A. (2019). La desaparición forzada como estrategia de control del Estado en las novelas: El tren de la ausencia de Joaquín Guerrero-Casasola y Desaparición de Gustavo Forero Quintero. En G. Forero Quintero (Ed.), República, violencia y género en la novela de crímenes (pp. 175–193). Siglo del Hombre Editores.

 

Prince Mohammad Bin Salman University (PMU), Saudi Arabia.

Universidad Internacional de Cataluña (UIC), Spain.

Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia.

  • Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE)
  • Musical Pedagogy
  •  Literary Studies
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Sociology of Literature

 

 

  • Manager, Languages Center – Assistant Professor.

            Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University. Saudi Arabia, Sep 2023 - Present ·

 

  • Adjunct Professor – Workshop Facilitator - Guest Speaker.

            University of Antioquia, Colombia.  2018- 2022

 

  • Administrative Coordination and Editorial Coordination of PIMECLA

           University of Antioquia, Colombia.  2018- 2022

 

  • Academic coordination / Assistant III

            University of Antioquia, Colombia.  2017-2022

 

PMU (2024-2026)

SPAN 1311 – Spanish as a Foreign Language (Level A1)

 

Universidad de Antioquia 2018- 2022

Social abilities and communication skills

Reading and Writing techniques

ELE

Seminar VII (ethical philosophy).

Scientific writing

Assertive communication

Creative writing.

 

  • Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE)
  • Musical Pedagogy
  •  Literary Studies
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Sociology of Literature

 

 

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