Our Board

Universidad del Norte

Nayibe is associate professor at Universidad del Norte, Colombia and one of the co-founders of LAALTA. Her general research interests reside in the intersection of student learning and teacher learning and how language affects the construction of reality in contexts such as classrooms and in other institutions that surround us.

nrosado@uninorte.edu.co

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Salomé is Assistant Professor at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile and one of the LAALTA co-founders. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK, and an MA from Melbourne University, Australia. Her research interests include language assessment literacy development in the teaching profession and language testing in teacher education.

svilla@uahurtado.cl

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Pablo is an English teacher and teacher trainer (ISP “Joaquín V. González”). He holds a Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Assessment from the University of Cambridge and a Diploma in Education Policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Before joining Cambridge University Press & Assessment, he managed projects in the areas of remote teaching, internationalisation of higher education and language teaching to refugees for the British Council and led the Education department of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper.

pablotoledo@gmail.com

Universidad del Norte

Lourdes is an English teacher, teacher educator and researcher. Currently, she is the Director of the Department of Foreign Languages at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her research interests include classroom assessment and testing, curriculum review and design, teacher development, English language teaching and learning, and internationalization of Higher Education.

arey@uninorte.edu.co

Universidad del Norte

Mónica holds a PhD in Regional and Economic Integration and Development; in the area of Education with emphasis in Curriculum Development and Bilingual Education. She has done research on Culture, Bilingual Ed. and Professional Development. Monica is currently the Alliance Developer for LATAM for Digital Bridges Alliance and Teacher for Rock Hill Schools.

mrodriguezbonces@gmail.com

Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

Elsa Fernanda Gonzalez holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and ELT from the University of Southampton. She is a recipient of the 2015 Research Assessment Award from the British Council and currently works at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas as the BA in Applied Linguistics coordinator. Her areas of interest include classroom assessment of ESL/EFL productive skills and assessment literacy.

e.fernandagonzalez@gmail.com

The University of Queensland

Claudia is an applied linguist, and her research interests are situated in the field of (instructed) second and foreign language acquisition with a focus on L2 Spanish and English learning and teaching. Her main research focus is to investigate distinctive features of learner language proficiency, the longitudinal development of language proficiency and competence in learners and how task-based classroom instruction may support language and discourse development across proficiency levels

c.vasquez@uq.edu.au

Instituto Federal de Goiás – IFG

Liberato is an English teacher and Portuguese lecturer at Instituto Federal de Goiás, Brazil. He is currently a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics & Technology at Iowa State University, USA. His interests include language assessment and testing, pronunciation assessment, oral and written academic communication, CALL, and teacher training.

liberato.santos@ifg.edu.br