Holds a teaching degree from Universidad de Chile and a Master´s Degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
She has had extensive experience in teacher training working for the Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, the University of Papua New Guinea, Riverside County Office of Education in the United States, Universidad Católica in Valparaiso, Chile, and the Department of Education in Chile.
Her research interests lie in the area of Discourse Analysis in the classroom as well as in the field of Second Language Acquisition as applied to different methodological approaches in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Currently, she works for Universidad Andres Bello teaching in the teacher training program in Viña del Mar. In her spare time, Patricia enjoys listening to classical music and reading detective stories.
