Biography

Rafaela Vinueza is an EFL instructor from Guayaquil. She holds a Bachelor´s degree in Education with emphasis on English Language and Linguistics from Universidad Estatal de Guayaquil. Rafaela obtained a Go Teacher scholarship sponsored by the government of Ecuador to study a TESL training at Kansas State University. Later, she graduated from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), where she got her Master´s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Rafaela is also a certified CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) instructor, and she has been a speaker in different English Languages congresses in Ecuador. She has teaching experience in different levels of education (pre-school, elementary, middle, high school, & college).

She is a social activist (E.D.O.E) and is passionate about education. In her earliest years of teaching experience, she realized that Education is the only opportunity a society has to promote justice, innovation and solidarity.

 

Research Interests

• Language gender in foreign language classrooms
• Writing development for beginners and assessment
• Extensive reading and vocabulary acquisition.

 

Selected Publications

• A quantitative analysis of the effects of an extensive reading program on the development of narrative writing skills in beginner EFL learners from a public high school https://www.dspace.espol.edu.ec/handle/123456789/44351
• Empowering the English Teaching Community for Today’s Challenges in English Language Teaching ISBN: 978-9942-8792-0-2