domingo, 15 de julio de 2012

Resume

         Laura Lezama García
                   lauraleg6@gmail.com

School Address:                                                                              Permanet Address:                                      
Philosophy and Literatura School                                                  226 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,
3000 Av. Universidad, CU,                                                            Agricultura, Mexico City, 1360
Mexico city, Mexico.                                                                     Tel. 052 55 53 42 49 07


EDUCATION

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO 
                           Mexico City, Mexico
Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Literature and Linguistics                                       Jan. 2001- Sep. 2006
Average 87/100
Dean’s List 2001-2006

LICENCED

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO                       Mexico City, Mexico
Spanish Center for Foreing People (CEPE)                                                                                              July 2011- January 2012
Spanish Teacher for Speakers of Other Languages

EXPERIENCE

NATIONAL EVALUATION CENTER    (CENEVAL)                                 Mexico City, Mexico
Spanish Test Designer and Writing Evaluator                                             January 2009- Present
  •    Researched of communication subject
  •    Analyzed Spanish content and applied of data
  •    Evaluated writing essays

FREELANCE EDITOR AND COPYWRITER
Self- employed
  •  Lectured and edited texts
  • Analyzed text content
HIGH SCHOOL GUSTAVE JAUME                                                                         Pierrelatte, Fr.
Language Assistant Teacher                                                                            Sept. 2007- July 2008
  •   Trained spanish learners to improve their speaking skill
  •    Developed reading programs
  •    Evaluated speaking and writing skill
HIGH SCHOOL MICHAEL FARADAY                                                Mexico City, Mexico
Spanish Teacher                                                                                       July 2006 - August 2007
  • Coached spanish students
  • Developed spanish programs
  • Coordinated communication activities

LEADERSHIPS ACTIVITIES

Coordinator summer program, Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM      Mexico City, Mexico
  • Spanish coordinator of programs and activities                                            Jan. 2009- Sep. 2010


SKILLS
  • Highly proficient in French
  •  Proficient in English
  • MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Prezi and OS Mac

lunes, 9 de julio de 2012

Formal Letter

July 8,   2012

Professor Renato Rosaldo
Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies at NYU
University of New York
New York, NY

Dear Professor Rosaldo,

I’ve been following your work in the last 5 years and I’ m really impressed by your critics and point of view about anthropology and ethnology.

I think your book Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis illustrates the real need to understand the other in his context. Nobody is able to describe the other’s experience if he tries to enunciate his story with his prejudices. Also, with your work I think it’s open a new door to read the anthropology studies.

As a student of the female Chicana literature, I consider that culture is a big problem that sometimes anybody wants to think about. In my view, culture is fundamental to answer a lot of questions which arise while you read the text. Even a text  will never be something alone without questions to answer.

Therefore, I would like to apply for your summer program, because I’m really interested to know and participate in your actual  research and discussions. Moreover, the summer program would enrich my own research so it’d be really important to my thesis project.

Sincerely,

Laura Lezama

domingo, 8 de julio de 2012

What I want from this course?

My first experience with English was when I was in middle school. I had never learned anything in English and suddenly I started to study in a bilingual school. All my classmates had already learned a lot of things in English and I hadn't. It was my first awful experience in this incomprehensible language. Of course, I never learned any English so I started to hate it. Despite of my experience, when I was at university I took up again the English class and I discovered that English was an interesting and beautiful language so I decided I wanted to learn it.

Thus, I really expect to improve all my English skills, writing, in my view, is more important than grammar, because if you improve your writing, in consequence, you improve your grammar. I hope, with this course, to start to write more professionally because sometimes I feel very stupid writing simple and basic sentences.

Finally, I never have applied an English accreditation and for my professional life it's really important so I have to work for that.