Experience

EMPLOYMENT TIMELINE

CURRENT

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (PROFESOR AYUDANTE DOCTOR)
2022-PRESENT
ENGLISH LECTURER
2009-2022
LANGUAGE POLICY DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO DE VITORIA, MADRID

  • syllabus design and lecturing Foundations of the English Language (6 ECTS) (Introduction to English Linguistics) (2022-ongoing)
  • syllabus design and lecturing English Phonetics and Phonology (6 ECTS) (2014-2023)
  • lecturing and designing official ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) courses in the following degrees (6 ECTS/3 ECTS): Medicine, Biotechnology, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Law, Business Studies, Advertising, Media Studies, Journalism, Architecture, Fine Arts, Design, Education (Primary and Early Childhood), Sports Sciences (2009-ongoing)
  • teaching general English (CEFR A2-C1) on official degree courses (6 ECTS/3 ECTS) (2020-ongoing)
  • teaching general English (CEFR A2-C1) to university students (extra-curricular) and staff (2009-ongoing)

TEACHING MOBILITY

  • INHOLLAND University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2014)
  • WSEI Cracow, Poland (2023)

TEACHING INNOVATION PROJECTS:

  • Member / Innovation Project UCM: ¿Qué (no) sabemos sobre la diversidad lingüística? Herramientas para fomentar la inclusión y la diversidad (2024-25) (n.º 464)
  • Member / Innovation Project UCM: Qué (no) sabemos sobre la diversidad lingüística: concienciación sobre la variación y las actitudes lingüísticas a través de seminarios y recursos didácticos en abierto (2023-24) (n.º 163) (230€)
  • PI (Principal Investigator) / Innovation CommunityUFV: International Language Day (2021-2023)
  • Member / Innovation Project UFV: Compartiendo inquietudes (2017-18) (1.500€)
  • Member / Innovation Project UFV: Nuevas Narrativas para Europa desde las Humanidades: habilidades de pensamiento crítico dentro del ámbito de la ética y la responsabilidad social (2017-18) (258€)

    RESEARCH
  • phonetics/phonology/pronunciation of English and Spanish, intelligibility, language attitudes, critical thinking and international communication.
  • Member / Research Project UCM / State funded: TECNICAS EXPERIMENTALES EN SOCIOLINGUISTICA: EFECTOS METODOLOGICOS EN EL ESTUDIO DE LAS ACTITUDES LINGUISTICAS (2022-25) (65.307€)
  • Reviewer: ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada (Studies in Applied English Linguistics

INSTITUTO CERVANTES DELE EXAMINER
2017-PRESENT
DELE EXAMINATION CENTRE
UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO DE VITORIA, MADRID

  • interlocutor and assessor of the DELE speaking paper  (A1-C2)
  • DELE A2 coordinator
  • head examiner
  • exam administration, management, invigilation/proctoring

OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

  • EXTERNAL MENTOR on MOOC: English Pronunciation in a Global World, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Future Learn (2021)
  • FREELANCE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION COACH

PAST

ENGLISH TEACHER
7-8/2010
AULA INTERNACIONAL, MADRID

  • taught English to children between 4 and 12
  • taught English Phonetics and Phonology 

ENGLISH TEACHER
3/2008-9/2009
INLINGUA, MADRID

  • taught general and business English (CEFR A2-B2) to groups, private clients and civil servants of the Autonomous Region of Madrid
  • designed skill-based courses and level-tests 

ENGLISH TEACHER
3/2008-9/2009
ALWAYS IDIOMAS, MADRID

  • taught English courses (A1-C2) to groups and individual clients
  • taught in-company classes (Red.es, etc.)

ENGLISH TEACHER
3/2008-9/2009
TALENTA, MADRID

  • taught private English classes to individual clients

GROUP LEADER
7-8/2009
SPRACHCAFE, EXMOUTH, DEVON, UK

  • organised leisure activitiies for teenagers 
  • dealt with contact between students and host families
  • dealt with student transfers

SPANISH TEACHER
2-6/2007
BUENA VISTA, KRAKOW

  • taught Spanish as a foreign language (A1-B1)

SPANISH TEACHER (ON-STAFF AND INTERN)
12/2007-6/2007
GENERAL SECONDARY SCHOOL NO. 6, KRAKOW
BILINGUAL SPANISH-POLISH SECTION

  • taught Spanish as an intern in the bilingual section (A2-C2)
  • taught Spanish as part of staff in the bilingual section (B1-B2)