Meet the InStructors

Associate Research Professor

AELRC Director

Georgetown University

Hello! I serve as the Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) and as an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics. My work focuses on performance-based language assessment, and I am deeply committed to collaborating with world language educators to create and implement useful and practical assessment tools. My research interests include oral proficiency assessment, rater training and scoring, and language assessment literacy. I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University and a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from Georgetown University.

Doctoral Student

Applied Linguistics

Georgetown University

Hello! I’m originally from Chile and moved to Washington, D.C., in 2023 to pursue a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at Georgetown University. Before beginning my doctoral studies, I spent ten years teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Chile and abroad. Drawing on my classroom experience, my research focuses on language assessment literacy and classroom-based assessment within English language teaching. More broadly, my academic interests include instructed second language acquisition, language teacher education, and task-based language teaching and learning.