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Rommy Carolina Anabalón Schaaf

Head of the Department

Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


- Linguistics - ESL/EFL - Education - Teacher training

Educación

  •  Linguistics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
  •  English Linguistics and Literature, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2004
  •  Education, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006
  •  Teacher of English, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Lecturer Full Time

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

  •   Lecturer Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Filosofía y Humanidades

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - A la fecha

  •   Lecturer Other

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Education

    Santiago, Chile

    2007 - A la fecha

  •   Teacher Other

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2015

  •   Lecturer Other

    UNIACC

    Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales

    Santiago, Chile

    2007 - 2014

  •   Lecturer Other

    Universidad de las Américas

    Education

    Santiago, Chile

    2006 - 2011

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Head of the Department of Foreign Languages Full Time

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Santiago, Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Supervisor of the following undergraduate thesis for Pedagogía en inglés at Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins:

- (2015) The use of mind maps to teach vocabulary to a group of 5th graders.
- (2014) The effectiveness of Total Physical Response in the teaching of English as a foreign language to students of a third year of an elementary school.
- (2014) The effectiveness of mindmaps as a strategy for reading comprehension.
- (2013) The integration of mobile phones in an English class: a quasi-experiment on listening comprehension and vocabulary.
- (2013) The effectiveness of games as a strategy on the learning of English vocabulary in adult learners from an evening high school.
- (2013) Teaching values through the English class: a case study of a group of fourth year students of secondary school.
- (2012) Teaching vocabulary by using the lexical approach throughout the analysis of cognates, taken from the Ministry of Education’s text book, in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
- (2012)Students’ opinions and perceptions about their English classes at the Language Resource Center.
- (2011) SIMCE English 2010: An observational case study on listening skills in a subsidized-private school and a municipal school.
- (2011) The relationship between the methodology used in the English class and the level of development of oral performance in students of 6th grade at “Colegio Adventista Las Condes” during the second semester of 2011.

Member of the following organizations

- TESOL Chile - Board of Directors
- Phonetics Group, Chile
- Sociedad Nacional de Profesores de Lenguas Extranjeras en la Enseñanza Superior (SONAPLES)


Difusión y Transferencia


Presentations at conferences and seminars.

- 2016 “Hacia la Internacionalización de la Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins: Inglés 3.0”. IV Jornadas Internacionales de Lenguas Extranjeras: Políticas Lingüísticas y Lenguas extranjeras en el nivel superior” Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina.
- 2016 “El uso de organizadores visuales como estrategia de comprensión de textos académicos en inglés”. XI Seminario de Lectura y Escritura en la Educación Superior (SLEPES): “El rol de la lectura y la escritura en la formación de profesores”. Universidad de la Serena. La Serena, Chile.
- 2015 “The use of graphic organizers as a reading comprehension strategy” Second EFL-UBO Conference.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Premio al Mérito Docente

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Chile, 2015

    Distinguished teaching during semester Autumn, 2015

  •   Premio al Mérito Docente

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Chile, 2014

    Distinguished teaching during semester Spring 2014

  •   Premio al Mérito Docente

    Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

    Chile, 2014

    Distinguished teaching during semester Autumn, 2014


 

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Análisis de desviaciones en la pronunciación de segmentos consonánticos producidas por hablantes de español de Chile aprendientes de inglés
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Rommy Anabalón

Head of the Department

Department of Foreign Languages

Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

Santiago, Chile