Workshop on Second Language Acquisition and Spatial Language, 10th September, 2007 Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle visit http://www.cocolab.org/esla/
Marina Velez Cambridge, United Kingdom I am a qualified teacher of Spanish as a foreign language having studied at Universidad Nebrija, Madrid and I hold a Cambridge Certificate English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). I have taken Social Anthropology and Social Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge. I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages extensively on a private basis, at primary schools, in companies and at institutes of adult education (e.g. Volksuniversiteit in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where I taught English Literature). I have trained teachers of foreign languages and given TEFL seminars to local teachers in Nepal. I am also an artist, a mother of three, a coordinator for the NGO INFONepal, have travelled extensively and lived in different countries (Argentina, Spain, USA, The Netherlands and UK) all of which has given me the patience, creativity, socio-cultural awareness and sense of humour I employ in my lessons. I also enjoy English Literature, archery, jazz and medieval music and flamenco dancing.