As a Junior Researcher at KU Leuven (ITEC team, also at imec) and UCLouvain (CENTAL team, part of ILC), I’m currently working on dialogue-based CALL, more precisely on task-oriented dialogue systems/agents (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 effectiveness evaluation of dialogue-based CALL systems on L2 proficiency development.
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 UCLouvain on reflexive writing in general education.
PhD in Linguistics, ongoing
KU Leuven
Agrégation in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
MA in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
BA in Romance Languages, 2004
Université Saint-Louis
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FNRS-FRFC research project from 2008 to 2010 at UCLouvain
Doctoral research project at KU Leuven, funded by a SENESCYT scholarship (Ecuador)