Rodrigo Tovar Viera
Technical University of Cotopaxi
Ecuador

Rodrigo Tovar Viera is a PhD student from Ecuador and a recipient of a Stipendium Hungaricum grant. I am currently in the second year of the PhD Program in Applied Linguistics at University of Szeged, Hungary. I hold master’s degrees in Applied Linguistics to bilingual teaching: English-Spanish and University Teaching and Educative administration at Catholic University and Indoamerica University of Ecuador, respectively. I have also gained an ESL diploma at Army Polytechnic School, Department of Languages. My scholarly interest includes SLA and FLL, particularly in vocabulary acquisition, academic writing, and language development. My PhD project focuses on the writing academic style of native and nonnative writers. I teach language courses at the Faculty of Humanities and language studies at Technical University of Cotopaxi, Ecuador. I have been teaching language courses for 15 years.