Nolvia Cortez

                                                                                                                                                                ncortez@email.arizona.edu

Education and Training

2002-currently                    University of Arizona                                   Tucson AZ

·             Pursuing Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

2000-2002                      University of Arizona             Tucson AZ

·             M.A. Bilingual and Multicultural Education

 

       1992-1997                    Universidad de Sonora              Hermosillo, Sonora MEXICO

·   Licenciatura en Sociología (B.A. Sociology)

·             Thesis completed in 1999 “Crisis, Empowerment and Change in the Working Women of of Nogales Sonora”.

        1996-1997            British Council/Cambridge University             Hermosillo MEXICO

·             Received Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English (COTE) after finishing a one year course on methods and activities for teaching English as a Foreign Language.

 

        1993                    University of Arizona/CESL                                        Tucson AZ

·               Attended a summer course on methods for teaching EFL

Employment

 

2002-Present      University of Arizona                                                                                    Tucson AZ
Graduate Assistant Teacher
                    -   Instructor for Beginning level Spanish for the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese                   

2001–2002        Arizona Dept. Health Services/ Border Health                      Tucson AZ

Program/Project Specialist

·             Responsible for training lay health workers on state and federal health

objectives as well as developing corresponding bilingual training curriculum

 and material.

 

1999-2000          Mariposa Community Health Ctr/ Platicamos Salud             Nogales AZ

Program Assistant/ Evaluation Specialist

·             Designed and implemented a culturally appropriate nutrition education curriculum imparted by lay health workers for women of Nogales Sonora and Arizona.

·             Developed internal evaluation instrument for the local Tobacco Prevention Project.

·             Conducted training for lay health workers on utilization of materials.

 

 

 

1993– Present          Universidad de Sonora                Hermosillo Sonora MEXICO

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language

·             Taught beginning to advanced English to college students and professors.

·             Assisted in the design of a curriculum suited to the needs of university

           professors seeking higher education in English speaking countries.

·             Currently member of the teaching faculty at Foreign Languages.

·             Classified as a full time teacher pursuing higher education for the benefit of the department of Modern Languages.

 

1994-1995                 Colegio de Sonora                       Hermosillo Sonora MEXICO

Research Assistant

·             Participated in research project approved by the Mexican National Science and Technology Council (CONACYT) titled: “The Internationalization of the Municipality of Hermosillo.”

·             Translated documents and bibliographic references from English to

         Spanish

·             Data Input and Surveying

 

Publications and Participation in Academic Events

 

October 16, 2003

Poster presentation at the Second Language Research Forum at the University of Arizona titled: Narrative Structure in Near-Native Speakers of Spanish.

 

October 17, 2003

Presented paper at the MEXTESOL conference in Oaxtepec Morelos

Presentation title: Exploring the Feasibility of Communicative Competence in the EFL classroom

 

October 10- 11, 1997      

 “Regional Workshop on Gender and Development”, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora MEXICO

Imparted workshop on gender issues relating to the women’s campesino movement in

Mexico.

 

May 7- 9, 1997   

“National Congress on Family”, Universidad de Sonora MEXICO

Presented paper on preliminary findings of 20 interviews with female heads of households  in

in Nogales Sonora, regarding work, family and personal experiences.

 

Febuary 19-22, 1997

“XII Simposio de Historia y Antropologia de Sonora” (XII annual History and

Anthropology Symposium of Sonora)

Presented and published a chronological overview of the 1991-1992 student’s movement

of the University of Sonora. 

Honors and  Awards

Nominated for the Minority Graduate Student Excellence Award by the U of A SLAT Ph.D. Program, Fall 2003

Elected as SLAT Colloquium Organizer, Fall 2003

Awarded Graduate Assistant Teaching fellowship from the University of Arizona for 2003-2004

Awarded Graduate Assistant Teaching fellowship from the University of Arizona for 2002-2003

First place in GPA for six semesters, and upon graduating from licenciatura en Sociología.

Thesis: ”Crisis, Voluntad y Cambio en las Mujeres Trabajadoras de Nogales Sonora”

(Crisis, Willingness and Change in the Working Women of Nogales Sonora),

 received honorable mention and unanimously approved.