Arianna Alfaro-Porras

  • Senior Lecturer and Global Engagement Coordinator
  • Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Field Group
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Office Location

Broad Hall 205

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With Pitzer Since: 2011

ACTFL OPI Tester with Full Certification

Arianna Alfaro’s focus is on second language acquisition and issues of Public Health in Latin America, aiming to build curricular connections on issues of health between students’ experiences abroad and locally. Alfaro concentrates on second and third year Spanish language classes.

  • Intensive Introductory Spanish (Span 022)
  • Intermediate Spanish (Span 033)
  • Advanced Spanish-Language and Cultures (Span 044)
  • Public Health in Latin America (Span 045)
  • Advanced Spanish Conversation through Film (Span 055)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

  • ACTFL Role of Grammar in Development of Proficiency Workshop, 2017
  • ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test Familiarization Workshop, 2015
  • ACTFL OPI Assessment Workshop, 2013, 2014

Associated Programs