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Ingrid Westhoff is a lecturer at Universidad de los Andes, Santiago and Andrés Bello University, Viña del Mar, in Chile, she teaches reading and writing pedagogy and English for specific purposes. She completed her Master of Education degree at the University of Sydney in Australia where she specialised in the use of Systemic Functional Linguistics and genre pedagogy and she has a Diploma in Philosophy from U Andes. She is a director of the foundation Educar para Crecer, working in education with disadvantaged families. She has worked for many years in Chile with the Reading to Learn teacher development program.

Raimundo Olfos is a lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso with an interest in Reading to Learn pedagogy. He holds a Master’s degree in mathematical education from the University of Santiago de Chile and completed his PhD at the University of Wales and post doctorate at King’s College. He is Chair of the Teacher Trainer Strand in the Doctoral Program of the Didactics of Mathematics, President of the Sociedad Chilena de Educación Matemática and Director of the Asociación Chilena de Investigadores en Educación. He is also an Asociated researcher at the Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (UChile, PUCV, UdeC).