About me
About Me
About me
I am a full-time associate professor and coordinator of an English Bachelor's degree at the Language Department at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. In the language department,
I teach in the Bachelor's degree in English Language Teaching, the Master’s in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching, and the Bachelor's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. I am also a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in CONAHCYT, Mexico.
I was postdoctoral researcher at the Autonomous National University of Mexico [Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM], Faculty of Higher Education Acatlán [Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán] and the General Office for Cooperation and Internationalization [Dirección General de Cooperación e Internacionalización, DGECI]. Being a postdoctoral fellow has allowed me to be involved in the opening, logistics, development of, and research on an academic writing program.
From 2013 to 2018, I lived in England, where I obtained a Ph.D. in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton with the thesis “Exploring the factors that affect the outcomes of a Genre-Based approach to listening”. During my Ph.D. studies, I was part of the staff at the Dissertation Writing Centre. I guided MA students on writing and research skills regarding their final dissertations. I delivered demonstrations about NVivo, a software programme for the analysis of qualitative data, while working for the UoS Doctoral College.
I lived in the United States, while pursuing my MA studies in English as a Second Language at the University of North Texas. In 2011, I obtained a joint MA in English Teaching at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico [Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México] with the thesis “Strategy training to improve listening skills”.