About me

As a PhD researcher at KU Leuven (ITEC, an imec research group) and Université catholique de Louvain (CENTAL team), I’m currently working on dialogue-based CALL, more precisely on task-oriented dialogue systems (chatbots) for language learning, at the intersection of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and natural language processing (NLP). My research focuses on the instructional design and the evaluation of the effectiveness of dialogue-based CALL systems for L2 proficiency development, in particular L2 fluency.

I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics thanks to a SENESCYT scholarship (Ecuador). I am also an Assistant Professor of French Linguistics and Language Teaching at Universidad Central del Ecuador. After finishing my PhD, I will return to Ecuador to continue to teach and conduct research in Quito. Previously, I worked as a research assistant at Université catholique de Louvain on reflexive writing in general education.