Manel Lacorte https://sites.google.com/site/manellacorte/ is Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics, Director of the Spanish Language Program, Director of the MA program in Hispanic Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park, and OPI Certified Tester. Since 2009, Manel Lacorte also works as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Spanish School of Middlebury College, Vermont. He is a co-editor (with Judy Liskin-Gasparro) of the Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction series (Pearson).