ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>About me</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="interchange format, standards body, language engineering, ISO, LISA, OASIS, OLIF, TBX, TMX, TEI, IETF, W3C, locales" name=keywords></META> <META content="Sue Ellen Wright" name=author></META> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY text=#6633cc bgColor=#9999ff> <STYLE type=text/css>BODY { FONT-FAMILY: Tacoma, Arial, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccccff } H1 { COLOR: #6633cc; FONT-FAMILY: Tacoma, Arial, sans-serif } H2 { COLOR: #6633cc; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Tacoma, Arial, sans-serif } </STYLE> <H1>Presentation: Academic background</H1> <P>f& I am Silvia Borrás and I am currently pursuing my MA in English - Spanish Translation in Kent State University. <P> f& I am also teaching Spanish for undergraduate students here at Kent. <p>f& Last summer I worked on an Internship in Centennial (CO) and the experience I gained was very productive. <H2>Goal: to work in the field of software localization</H2> <LI type=disc><FONT color="#6633cc"><STRONG>Kent State University </STRONG> <br> <br> <TABLE height="78" width="500"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="316" height="36"> <UL> <LI type=disc><A href="http://www.kent.edu/">Kent State University</A> </LI></UL></TD> <TD width="174" height="52" rowSpan="2"><IMG height="73" src="acercademi_files/LogoKent.gif" width="177" border="0"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="316" height="34"> <UL> <LI type=disc><A href="http://appling.kent.edu/">Institute for Applied Linguistics</A> </LI></UL></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>f& I finished my PhD Graduate Coursework in Translation at the University of Alicante in Spain.<P> f& I plan to start writing my dissertation on software localization next year.<BR><BR> <LI type=disc><FONT color="#6633cc"><STRONG>University of Alicante</STRONG> <UL> <TABLE width="432"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="473"> <LI type=disc><A href="http://www.ua.es/">University of Alicante</A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <UL></UL></LI></TD> <TD width="73" rowSpan="2"><IMG height="97" src="acercademi_files/logoua.gif" width="105" border="0"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="473"> <LI type=disc><A href="http://www.ua.es/dfing">Department of English Philology</A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <UL></UL></LI></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <br> <TABLE cellSpacing="2" cellPadding="6" width="15%" align="center" bgColor="#ccccff" border="1"> <TR> <TD align="center"> <A href="homepage.htm">Home</A> </TD></TR></TABLE> </BODY></HTML>