I am an Assistant Professor of French and English Language Teaching at Universidad Central del Ecuador, in Quito. I am also a research fellow at ITEC, an imec research group at KU Leuven, and CENTAL+TeAMM at UCLouvain in Belgium.
I work 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.
PhD in Linguistics, 2022
KU Leuven
Agrégation in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
MA in Romance Languages, 2007
UCLouvain
BA in Romance Languages, 2004
Université Saint-Louis