Assistant Professor

Name:	Cynthia Yanin Pimentel Velázquez
Position:	Assistant Professor
Research group:	Miembro del grupo HUM-1021 Atención a la Diversidad y Educación bilingüe
Telephone:	+ 34 957 21 8124
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Address:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Cynthia Pimentel has been a lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Córdoba (Spain) since 2016. Previously, she was a teacher of English as a foreign language in the Language School of the University of Córdoba (UCOIdiomas) for five years. She has also been a teacher trainer within the "Plurilingualism Promotion Plan" of the University of Córdoba since 2015 and a teacher trainer in courses for state secondary school teachers, among which, we find: "Linguistic and Methodological Update for Teachers in Bilingual State Secondary Schools" and "Key Competences in Materials Design in CLIL: The Pluriliteracies Approach" for teachers of different levels in state schools in the area of Porto (Portugal).

She received a BA in English Philology from the University of Córdoba in 2010 and a MA in English for Professional Qualification (specialty in Plurilingualism, Intercultural Communication and Curriculum Planning) in 2014 and an MA in Secondary Education (specialty in Foreign Language Teaching: English) in 2017. She is also currently pursuing a Ph.D degree at the University of Córdoba within the program "Languages and Culture", research line "English Linguistic Studies"; her research focuses on an analysis of the tasks and activities present in secondary education coursebooks used in CLIL programs. She has recently been an international visiting researcher at the University of Porto (Portugal).

Her interests concentrate on bilingual education programmes/ CLIL, the creation and analysis of teaching materials in bilingual schools, English teaching methodology, second language acquisition and English Phonetics and Phonology.

Since 2018, she is part of the research grupo HUM-1021: Atención a la diversidad y educación bilingüe (AD-EB).

Main publications

• Pimentel Velázquez, C. (2014). Teaching Listening as an instrument for the development of linguistic skills in an integrated way. (Master's tesis). Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, España.
• Pimentel Velázquez, C. (2017). English and Culture in the Second Language Classroom. (Master's tesis). Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, España.
• Pimentel Velázquez, C & Pavón Vázquez, V. (2018). Improving oral skills in university lessons: techniques and strategies to use pronunciation effectively. Manuscript submitted for publication.