Mextesol´s WhatsApp’s groups, a way to share, learn, communicate and to create online communities in a Mexican context.

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With the continuously evolving in technology in our lives and the connectivity that apps allow human beings. The tendency for sharism in communities, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Furthermore, communities like Research gate, LinkedIn and TED Talks, has allowed people to learn, share, and feel part of a community. Therefore, it is important to create online communities of English teachers.This study explores the advantages and disadvantages that creating online WhatsApp groups with academics in three states of Mexico. Exclusively speaking of, (Mextesol) the biggest association of English teachers from Mexico. The study examines three groups from Puebla, Mexico City, and Guanajuato. This paper examines that a simple app like WhatsApp can be considered an online community that enables Mexican English Teachers to have a community in a synchronous and asynchronous form.

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Angel Tellez Tula (Mexico)

Angel Tellez Tula is an MA English Teacher. At the present time, he is a current teacher at a public junior high school " Técnica 61" located in Puebla, Mexico. His family were immigrants, crossing the border seeking education and better opportunities. He studied preschool and some academic years in Elementary school in the state of Pennsylvania. He pursued his BA. in Mexico. In 2013, he obtained a degree in teaching English as a foreign language. Meantime, he was doing his BA, he helped his indigenous community by teaching English to all levels. Consequently, he has been teaching for seven years at all levels. He has obtained three TKT modules expired by the University of Cambridge. In addition, he has obtained the TTC (Teaching training course) with a technical degree as an English teacher for adolescents and adults from the Anglo. He believes that every kid is the future in progress and in happiness in society. He holds a master's degree at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in English teaching. Furthermore, he holds a Master’s degree at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) in Educational Technology. His research areas are technology, literacy, and assessment. He has been a National and International speaker in Veracruz, Guanajuato, Mexico City, Puebla, Paris, and Texas. He has presented conferences about technology, assessment, and pragmatics. Moreover, he did a research stay at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He presented a national program called “La Red de Comunidades para la Renovación de la Enseñanza-Aprendizaje en Educación Superior (RECREA)”. In addition, he has done research stays in Spain and Finland. In 2018 he won the international research (Miguel Alvarez Research Award from the University of San Antonio Texas. In his free time, he likes to be with his family and friends. He loves to read, play the guitar, watch series on Netflix. Finally, he has also dabbled in literature and is working on his first historical-fiction novel” The Windmill” which participated in an international competition for Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. And finally, he has taken courses in economics from MIT (Institute of Technology of Massachusetts).

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