Maria Estevez Gonzalez at Illinois State University | Rate My Professors 

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Throughout my studies, travels, and personal experiences in life I have had the opportunity of meeting people from all over the world and that has helped me to have an open-minded perspective. I realized that languages help me grow not only professionally but personally as well. As I grew up, I was always eager to interact with people who made me rethink my viewpoints and challenged me. By exploring a diverse variety of interests, I found that what I truly enjoy in life is understanding how languages work and being able to teach them is something that I find very satisfying. My interest in linguistics was built progressively by all the different experiences I had involving languages; mostly by learning, translating, and teaching. 

My role in a language classroom is that of a supervisor, a guide, a helper, a facilitator, and a language resource. Teaching a foreign language means to guide or to help students achieve their foreign language acquisition. I put a lot of time and effort in creating contexts in which my students can use the target language in a meaningful way. I like to design activities that can relate to their personal experience and keep them motivated. I firmly believe that foreign-language instructor is someone students can rely on to solve their doubts and improve their language skills.