Biography - Jocelyn Romero

Jocelyn Romero is a fifth-year student at Instituto Especializado de Nivel Superior Centro Cultural Salvadoreño Americano in the major English Applied Linguistics. She is an Alumni from ¡Supérate! Merlet, a program that provides high-quality education to young people with desire to be better people in society. In the teaching area, she made her social hours in the program “Inglés para un futuro mejor” and “Instituto Nacional de San Martín (INSAM)” where she provided virtual classes to students in the age of 15 to 17 years old.

Please note that this blog is part of a class project and the data presented must not be taken for granted. The intention is only to indicate understanding of the contents presented and should not be considered as linguistics/TESL norm.

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