Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos has an undergraduate degree from UPNFM and a graduate degree in International Teaching from Framingham University, Massachusetts. Active in ESL since 1992, she has worked with preschool and elementary learners in bilingual, content based instruction settings; tutoring in a variety of areas like languages, math, chemistry, physics, and literature; has done curriculum development for the pre-school area through a content based approach and EFL curriculum development for high school. She has been a presenter internationally in USA, Mexico and Central America. She has taught all ESL levels. Volunteer in projects such as the Language Institute project in Las Mesitas, and accredited by the US Embassy as teacher trainer since 2008.
Active researcher in topics like: Competency Based Learning, Motivation in the Language Classroom, Content Based instruction Vs ESL instruction, Technology to Enhance English learning, Student-centered Projects and Instruction, Experiential Learning. At present she works in Zamorano University.
