About the facilitator

About the facilitator of this workshop:

Sergio Sánchez Padilla

Education background

-Bachelor's Degree in Applied Linguistics (with specialization in French language and culture); UATx, Mexico, 2005

-Master's Degree (with honorable mention) in Hispanic Linguistics; UNAM, Mexico, 2014

-Speaker of 3 foreign languages: English, French and Italian

-Certified by Cambridge English Qualifications: First Certificate of English, Certificate of Advanced English, and Certificate of Proficiency in English, 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively

-One month of TESOL training at the University of Arkansas (sponsored by the Fulbright Program), 2008

-Online course on "Critical Thinking" with the University of Oregon (sponsored by the US Department of State), 2011

-Online course on "Education Assessment" with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (sponsored by the US Department of State), 2012.

-Online course on "Gamification" with the University of Oregon (sponsored by the Organization of American States), 2018

-Multiple courses on all sorts of pedagogical and didactic topics: Multiple Intelligences, Bloom's Taxonomy, so-called Maslow's Pyramid, ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies), Learning Self-Management, Problem Based Learning, Content Based Learning, Task Based Learning, Project Based Learning, Topic Based Learning, Theme Based Learning, Community Language Learning, Strategies Based Instruction, English for Specific Purposes, 21st Century Skills (4 Cs, digital literacy, etc.), Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), Total Physical Response (TPR), Communicative Language Teaching, Eclecticism, etc.

-A number of courses having to do with multiple linguistic topics: Role & Reference Grammar, Information Structure, Mental Spaces, Iconicity, Semiotics, Cognitive Grammar, etc.

-Self-taught learner of cognitive neuroscience

A couple of professional experiences:

-Speaker at the "Can Motion Event Construal Be Taught or Restructured? Evidence from Bilinguals and L2 Learners" conference of the University of Reading of the UK, 2021

-Collaborator at the Psycholinguistics Lab of the Faculty of Psychology of UNAM, 2017

-Speaker at the “UK International Congress of Cognitive Linguistics” at King’s College London, 2012

-Research on Spanish Clitic Climbing for 7 years with Professor Ricardo Maldonado (who was, in turn, a former student of Ronald Langacker)

-18 years of experience as an English teacher; 11 of these at UNAM