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Samiah Hassan is a full-time professor in the undergraduate EFL Teacher training and translation course of studies at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, where she teaches General English. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics. She is also academic coordinator of immersion programmes of Spanish as a foreign language. Her teaching and research interests are mainly in the area of teaching and learning genres in EFL contexts. She is co-director of a research project that analyses how genres are taught in various educational contexts.

Cristina Boccia is a full professor at the EFL teacher training and translations studies at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. She teaches General English, Linguistics and Genre studies. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and is working towards her PhD. Her teaching and research interests are Appraisal especially in academic and scientific discourses; teaching and learning of genres; materials and professional development, all in the EFL context.