Melissa Negron

Melissa Negron is an instructor of Spanish and the assistant coordinator for the Heritage Language Program. Her teaching experience includes different levels of Spanish language courses for L2 and heritage language learners in hybrid and online formats. Her research interests focus on sociolinguistics and heritage language pedagogy.

She was born and raised in Puerto Rico where she attended the University of Puerto Rico and obtained a bachelor's in secondary education in Spanish language arts with a minor in Italian and French. She later moved to Arizona where she completed a master's in Spanish linguistics. She is currently working on her doctorate in Spanish linguistics.