Mariana Bono teaches courses at different levels in the Spanish Language Program. Before joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, she taught Spanish language and literature at the Ecole Polytechnique in France and applied linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her approach to teaching Spanish as a foreign language is multidisciplinary and draws on language pedagogy, psycholinguistics, bilingual studies and discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in the processes and factors that bear on the acquisition of Spanish in formal settings, such as the impact of prior linguistic knowledge, language transfer, linguistic awareness and the roles played by reflexivity and verbal interaction in the learning process.