Estephanie López Contreras

Estephanie is a full-time graduate student in the Language, Literacy, and Technology doctorate program at Washington State University, Pullman. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Estephanie completed her B.Ed. in English as a foreign language at Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) and graduated magna cum laude. She continued her education at Universidad Central de Chile, obtaining a master’s in education. She joined the English teaching training program at USACH as a language teaching methodologies instructor, where she was able to share her passion for language learning with her undergraduate students. She has also worked with pre-service teachers during their student-teaching process. Before joining USACH as faculty, Estephanie worked as a K-12 teacher in a bilingual school teaching English as a second/foreign language.