Tyson de Moura Umberger
Tyson de Moura Umberger is a PhD student in Linguistics in the Hispanic Studies Program in the Department of Languages and Cultures focusing on morphosyntax in L2 acquisition of the Romance Languages of the Americas (French, Portuguese, Spanish) from theoretical and sociolinguistic perspectives. His educational background is in General, Applied, and Hispanic Linguistics as well as English, Portuguese, and Spanish language teaching methodology. He has taught languages, academic composition, analytical reading and thinking, public speaking, intercultural communication, and linguistics courses in private schools and universities in five different countries across four continents. His interests, besides languages and linguistic studies, lie in travel, tennis, and the outdoors.