Teacher of English as a Foreign Language

(native: born and brought up in the United Kingdom, with Spanish parents)

EDUCATION: (relevant only)

MASTER’S IN EDUCATION: Applied linguistics The Open University, United Kingdom 2006.

Master's in Education with a research project in Applied Linguistics.

DEGREE: BACHELOR OF ARTS (Honours) The Open University, United Kingdom 2002.

Diploma: ADVANCED DIPLOMA T.E.S.O.L. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. The Open University, United Kingdom 2003.

COURSE: TRAINER DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, United Kingdom 2008.

2 week training course in Teacher Training Development.

CAP (Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica) UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA 2006.

Certificate ACLES - Audio tasks development (Valencia 2022).

EXPERIENCE (present)

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language at the 'Centre d'Idiomes de la Universitat de València' since 2002.

Team member of the PACLE examinations. Production of assessment materials.

EXPERIENCE (past)

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language at the ' Politecnic University of Valencia' (2005-2010).

Teaching English to UPV students and teachers. 30, 40 and 60 hour intensive courses.

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language

(Native speaker:  Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor of Arts degree University of Alberta, Canada, 1983. (Major: English; Minors: Philosophy, Music History).

University of Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), 2004.

EXPERIENCE

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language at the 'Centre d´idiomes de la Universitat de Valencia´ since 2009 (all levels from A1 to C2, including Business English courses, Cambridge preparation for First Certificate in English, Certificate of Advanced English and Proficiency).

Team member of the PACLE production of examination materials.

Having graduated in Humanities: English literature/Musicology, at Hope University Liverpool in 1988 and working some years in public administration in Bristol I took the Cambridge TEFLA qualification and went to Madrid in 1992. Here I started teaching English as a foreign language at a private language school and then at the British Institute.

In 1998 I went to Germany where I mainly worked freelance in industry in the East of the country, returning to Spain in 2002, this time to Valencia where I was head of studies at a private language school. After two years I started working for CCOO doing Formación Profesional with (then) SERVEF (LABORA), then joining the Centre d’Idiomes de la Univesitat de València in 2012.

Studies:

In 2008 Oksana graduated in Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures, Department of English Language, from the Linguistic University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.

In 2011 she graduated in English Philology from the University of Valencia.

In 2018 she did a Master’s Degree in Graphic Design at Saint Petersburg ITMO University,  Russia.

Additional information:

In 2006 Oksana participated in the Work and Travel Program USA visiting Boston.

From 2016 she has been an English teacher at the University of Valencia Language Centre (CDI).

[Biography, english version]

Miroslav Kotsev holds a degree in Spanish Studies from the University of Sofia St. Clement of Orid (2013), Sofia, Bulgaria with a specialization in teaching Spanish as a foreign language and obtaining pedagogical aptitude certificate and professional qualification of teacher of Spanish as a foreign language. He also holds a Master's degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies: applications and research, applied academic itinerary of literature (2014) and Master's degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education (2018): specialization in teaching English as a foreign language from the University of Valencia.

Specialised in language teaching, with extensive experience in the private sector as an English teacher in language schools, teaching the subject of English in professional training courses of healthcare education at the Instituto Superior de Formación Profesional Biosanitaria Claudio Galeno and as a part-time lecturer (since 2020) at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia teaching official syllabus subjects of English for specific purposes and technical English. He has also worked as an English teacher at the Language Centre of the UPV. He currently works as a teacher of English and Spanish at the Language Centre of the University of Valencia and as a part-time lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. 

As a teacher of English as a foreign language, he has extensive experience teaching classes at all levels of CEFR, preparation for official exams of Cambridge ESOL, Trinity, EOI, Certacles (PACLE), English for specific purposes, technical English. As a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language he has taught from A1 to C1 CEFR levels, intensive courses for incoming Erasmus students at the UPV, Spanish literature classes. 

María Molés Moreno holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Universitat Jaume I (2016), specialized in literary translation and proofreading and text editing. She completed a Master's Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at CIESE-Comillas (2018) and began her professional career as a Spanish teacher.

She worked as a teacher at CEAR (Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid), in charge of literacy courses for adult immigrants and Spanish classes (all CEFR levels). She has been a member of the organising and scientific committee of the Foro de Profesores de ELE (UV) and is a member of the scientific and evaluation committee of the journal ForoELE. She is co-author of the MOOC "Spanish A2" for FORTHEM Digital Academy.

She currently works at the Centre d'Idiomes de la UV as a Spanish teacher. She is also a member of the teaching staff of the Master's Degree in Continuing Education for the Training and Updating of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (UV). She is a trained DELE examiner (A1 and A2 levels).

Professor of German Philology at the Universitat de València

PhD thesis (2022): Die 'Blumen der Tugend' des Heinrich Schlüsselfelder. Edition und Untersuchung einer frühneuhochdeutschen Übersetzung des 'Fiore di Virtù' aus dem 15. Jahrhundert.

Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching Training, in German (2015-2017)

Master’s Degree in Language and Literature Research (2012-2013)

Licenciatura (five-year degree) in German Philology (2004-2009)

Graduate in English Studies from the University of Valencia. She has the Teaching Training  Course. She held the post of Spanish language teacher's assistant at Harrogate Grammar School for two years. She has the Teacher Development course from the University of Edinburgh. She has been a full professor of English at the Center d'Idiomes de la UV since 2011.