Maria Alejandra Mareco is a bilingual educator, sociolinguistic researcher, and teacher educator with nearly three decades of experience across K–12 and higher education in Argentina and the United States. She currently teaches Spanish at Wilburn Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she designs inclusive and culturally sustaining instruction for multilingual learners. She holds master’s degrees in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and in Bilingual Education, along with specialized training in ICT tools for CLIL and teaching methodologies through the Fulbright Program. In Argentina, she served as the Principal and highest academic authority of the Teacher Education Program for English in Formosa Province, leading curriculum development, supervising faculty, and coordinating clinical practice across institutions. She also worked as the Protocol Coordinator for the Ministry of Education, representing the province in institutional and international events. Her research focuses on translanguaging, bilingual identity, and language maintenance among heritage Spanish speakers. She actively presents her work at international conferences.
Ms. Maria Alejandra Mareco
Presentation Title: When Learning a New Language Silences, The First: Rethinking CLIL Through Translanguaging to Interrupt School-Based Language Loss
Wake County, the United States
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