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Second Graduation Ceremony for the Doctor of Education Program

December 29, 2016
María Azpiroz, a graduate of the Master’s program in Education and coordinator of the Language Center at Universidad ORT Uruguay, defended her dissertation on December 28, 2016, to earn her Doctorate in Education.

Her thesis, supervised by Dr. Denise Vaillant, academic secretary of the Institute of Education, was titled: “Individual Differences in Learning Spanish as a Second Language: Learning Approaches, Styles, and Strategies of Chinese Students within the Framework of an Exchange Program between Universities in China and Uruguay.”

The evaluation committee consisted of Dr. Jesús Manso, a visiting professor at the institute; Dr. Ariel Cuadro, academic vice president of the Catholic University of Uruguay; and Dr. Eduardo Rodríguez Zidán, assistant academic coordinator for graduate programs at the institute.