About Us Karla Ramos Rivas

Karla Ramos Rivas is a doctoral researcher at the HCIAS and the Faculty of Modern Languages of Heidelberg University and a member of the HCIAS Doctoral Research Group “Communication and Society in Ibero-America”. She holds a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She holds a master's degree in linguistics and university teaching from the Universidad de Costa Rica. Her master's thesis addressed the creation of teaching materials to revitalize the Malecu language among children. She has more than ten years of experience teaching languages (Spanish, French, and English) and founded the center Global Kids, which inspired her book Manual para la enseñanza de idiomas a la población infantil. Prior to starting her doctoral research at Heidelberg University, she worked as a consultant and lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the Universidad de Costa Rica. She has also collaborated with the Universidad Nacional Costa Rica on rural education projects.

Her doctoral project, supervised by HCIAS Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda and Prof. Dr. René Venegas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), analyzes differences in cognitive strategies used by professionals when writing technical reports in Spanish, with and without the assistance of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). 

Karla Ramos

She studies how the quality and acceptability of texts vary depending on when AI is incorporated into the writing process through simulations. The research combines qualitative and quantitative methods and relies on tools such as Inputlog to record writing processes. Its objective is to contribute to the design of professional training programs in technical writing and advanced digital literacy.

Selected Publications

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  • Ramos Rivas, K. (forthcoming). Actualización interactiva de la ortografía. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica.       
  • Ramos Rivas, K. (forthcoming). Redactar es pensar: redacción efectiva de documentos ejecutivos y técnicos para profesionales. Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica.

Recent Presentations

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Contact

Karla Ramos

Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1 69117, Heidelberg

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