Professional Activity

  • Remote Reviewer for Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) 2015-present
  • Evaluator and Reviewer for the Spanish Placement Exam: Berlitz Company by the Second Language Testing, INC (2015)
  • Lower Division Spanish Language Coordinator (2007-2015)
  • Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview (Rater (2008-2015) & tester (2011-2015).
  • Translation & Interpretation:
    2015-present – Legal Aid Society in Story County (supervising legal translations for Spanish 354).
    2017-2018 – Supervising translation for Primary Health Care (Patient Handbook)
    2018 (August) – Simultaneous Interpretation for Furlong-Fox, HRG Argentina:
    “Herbicide resistant weeds: Is Dicamba the solution?” By Bob Hartzler, Department of Agriculture, Iowa State University.
    “High Yield Corn and Soybean Management” by Mark Licht, Department of Agriculture, Iowa State University.
  • Ad hoc Reviewer for Journals, Conferences and books
    – Computer Assisted Language Learning (2016)
    – Foreign Language Annals (2014, 2015, 2016 (2), 2018 (3))
    – Hispania (2012 (2))
    – Language Learning and Technology (2016)
    – Language Quarterly Assessment: An International Journal (2015)
    – Cuadernos. Info (2015)
    – Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd) (2016, 2017, 2018)
    – Edited Book published by Equinox: Comunicación mediada por tecnologías: Aprendizaje y enseñanza de la lengua extranjera (one chapter, 2016)
  • Textbook reviewer
    2017 Cengage-Heinle, two focus groups for two textbooks (Rutas and Juntos)
    2017 Cengage-Heinle a 60-minute remote research interview
    2015 McGraw-Hill, one textbook (Contextos)
    2015 Cengage-Heinle, (HS review)
    2014 Pearson, one textbook (Cortometrajes)
    2012 Pearson, two textbooks (¿Qué me dices?, Charlemos)
    2012 McGraw-Hill, one textbook (Avance)
    2012 John Wiley & Sons, one textbook (Más allá de las palabras)
    2012 Cengage-Heinle, two textbooks (Plazas, Para siempre)
    2011 Cengage-Heinle, one textbook (Juntos)
    2011 Vista Higher Learning (Revista)
    2008 Cengage-Heinle, (Vértice)
  • Language Assessment
    2015 Second Language Testing, INC (Evaluator and Reviewer for the Spanish Placement Exam: Berlitz Company)