Local Chapters

LAURA ELENA VALDÉZ ROJAS

ROCIÓ GUADALUPE PÉRES MORALES

CARLOS EDUARDO DE LA PAZ ARROYO

• Carlos Eduardo De la Paz Arroyo has worked at Centro Universitario Anglo Americano for 12 years. During this time, he has been an English teacher, teacher trainer and Academic Coordinator.
• He holds a BA in ELT by UNAM, the TKT Certificates modules 1, 2 & 3 and a Diploma for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language by UAEM.
• He has been involved in MEXTESOL for ten years and is a regular presenter at the National Convention.
• His main areas of interest include Applied Linguistics, namely Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and affective variables in EFL.

JUAN RAFAEL CERVANTES LÓPEZ

• l holds a Doctorate in Educational Innovation.
• She is a full time professor and coordinator of the English Program in the Modern Languages Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey.
• Researcher in the Foreign Language Teaching and Learning.
• Reviewer for national and international academic journals including the Mextesol Journal.

OSCAR DANIEL CRUZ HERNÁNDEZ

• Holds a MA-TESOL from SIT Graduate Institute.
• Oscar has been a language teacher since 1997.
• Since 2009 he has taught Certificate workshops for English teachers starting him on a new, dynamic, and enriching career as a free lance teacher trainer and speaker.
• When not teaching or teacher training, Oscar loves swimming and watching movies

SARA MERINO MUNIVE

• Sara Merino Munive is a teacher-researcher at Faculty of Languages, BUAP Mexico.
• She holds an MA in ELT and a specialization in Teaching Spanish to Foreigners from the University of Jaen, Spain.
• She has participated as an instructor in different EL training programs and in developing and evaluating different programs.
• She has participated as speaker in some national and international conferences such as MEXTESOL 2010, 2011, 2015, AAAL Chicago 2011, ETAWA Limerick 2011, ATDOP in Oregon, USA in 2012, EWCA Frankfurt Germany 2014 among others.
• Recently, she had the opportunity to present  in the ISLS  in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA 2015.
• Her main areas of interest are ICT, ELT training, evaluation and writing.

LUCINDA BORREGO

• Holds a B.A. degree in Applied Linguistics; as well as the, ICELT and CAE certifications from the University of Cambridge.
• She is also a certified translator by the State Government of
  Tamaulipas since 2014.
• She has worked as an English teacher for over 10 years in
  different private and public schools and institutions such as the Center of Languages and Applied Linguistics; in addition to some universities such as La Salle Victoria and the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas.
• She has been involved in MEXTESOL in the past years and has
  participated as a speaker in some regional conventions.
• Her main areas of interests include ELT, Second Language
  Acquisition and Translation.

Victor Manuel II Arizabalo Navarro

• holds a B.A. in International Business from the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, as well as Trinity and Cambridge certifications.
• He has been an EFL teacher for 5 years in public and private schools
• He currently teaches at The American School of Tampico and the Centro de Bachillerato Tecnológico Agropecuario No. 12, where he is also the head of the Department of School and Community Relations. He grew up in Tampico, Tamaulipas, and his experience moving to Dallas, TX as a high school student led him to develop an interest in learning about new cultures. Victor has also been selected and sponsored by Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education to participate in a Teacher Training Program in Austin, Texas in a partnership with the University of Texas ESL Services. 

MIROSLAVA TAPIA

• Miroslava Tapia has taught to secondary, high-school and university students for 20 years.
• She participated on the Summer English Training Program in Corvallis, Oregon and Proyecta 100 000 program in Tucson, Arizona U.S.A.
• She works as an English teacher at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana in Mérida Yucatán and she runs the reinforcement program in the same University.
• She studied a master degree in English Language Teaching, and developed a research about factors that hinder students learning.
• She has participated as a treasurer in Mextesol Yucatán Chapter and now she is the President.

SAMUEL BENITEZ