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Sergio Álvarez Uribe is a full-time teacher-researcher at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. His research interests include academic language development and assessment; knowledge about language for teacher development; argumentative studies; cohesion analysis; extracurricular and co-curricular language development; creative and art-based research methods; and instructional design informed by genre-based pedagogy.

Norma Barletta is an associate professor at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla-Colombia. She teaches at the Spanish, Foreign Language and Education departments. Her research interests center around L1 and L2 language and literacy teaching and learning as well as language use in social contexts. She is particularly interested in discourse analysis, issues of ideology and identity, and applications of genre-based pedagogy.

Teresa Benítez is a full-time teacher-researcher at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla- Colombia. She belongs to the Language and Education research group. Her research interests include Language (L1 and L2) teaching and learning; applications of genre-based literacy pedagogy in educational contexts; teacher development; curriculum development and instructional materials design. 

Nayibe Rosado-Mendinueta is a language teacher and a teacher educator at Universidad del Norte in Colombia. Her research interests reside in the intersection of students' and teachers’ learning and how languages affect the construction of reality in contexts such as classrooms and in other institutions that surround us.