About me- Abbreviated CV

María Alicia Maldonado is Teacher of English graduated from Instituto Nacional del Profesorado de Paraná (Entre Ríos), Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral and holds the IPA Certificate of Proficiency in the Phonetics of English from University College London (UK).

Former lecturer in Language, Phonology, Psycholinguistics and Methodology at  the Teacher Education Programme, Translation Programme and Interpretation Programme at Instituto Superior del Profesorado N°8 “Alte. Brown” in Santa Fe, where she worked until March, 2015, when she retired. She has taught English at all levels and in many different contexts (Rural schools, Bilingual schools, public and private schools, etc) for over 30 years.

She is tutor for “Trabajo de Producción Final”, at Licenciatura en Inglés at Universidad Nacional del Litoral, All teachers she tutored received the highest grade in their tesinas. She has led workshops for in-service teachers since 2000 and has lectured in Argentina, Chile, UK, Serbia, Pakistan and India.

She has published works on Didactics and Phonetics and Phonology in specialized journals.

As a freelance material developer, she is author of On the Pulse Workbook and Tests (Macmillan Education) Launched in 2015, reviewer for For Teens and co-author of What’s Up? 1^st and 2^nd edition (Pearson Education 2008 - 2011). Author of What’s Up? 3^rd edition Students Book and Teacher's Book. Launched in 2016. She has been Content Coordinator for Pearson's Look Wide series (2018). She is author of the Students Books and Teachers book for Light Up series for Pearson Argentina (2019). She is authour of the mindfulness workbook for Wonders 2020 (Mc Graw Hill). She is course author for The Language Fuel magazine (New Zealand).

She has been nominated Academic Judge in the Global Creative Women Award 2021 organised by the Global Trainer Academy.