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	Omar Villarreal is a University Lecturer in the area of Applied Linguistics. He is the Coordinator of the ELT Pedagogy Area at INSPT of Universidad Tecnológica Nacional where he is also the Coordinator of the Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa. He is also Head of the English Department at Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Nro 41- Adrogué. He graduated as a Profesor en Inglés e Inglés Técnico at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico.He is also a Licenciado en Ciencias de la Educación from Universidad Católica de La Plata ( Summa Cum Laude) and Licenciado en Tecnología Educativa from Facultad Regional Avellaneda - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Summa Cum Laude). His post-graduate studies include courses in Educational Research (M.A. in Educational Research) at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and in Applied Linguistics at Carrera Cuaternaria del Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas. Omar has finished his Doctorate in Modern Languages at Universidad del Salvador and is currently his doctoral thesis . He is also a candidate to the Maestría en Gestión del Conocimiento from Escola Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Omar has taught English at all levels: Kindergarten through University for 33 years now. He was a Secondary School Head for more than 10 years. He was also Head of the School of English at Universidad Austral and Principal of Instituto Superior del Profesorado Modelo. He was the Project-Director and co-author of a series of books and allied material for the last three years of Secondary School : "POLIMODAL ENGLISH" published by Macmillan Heinemann. He is also the author of "GRAMMAR EXPLORER" and "TOP TEENS" published by Macmillan Publishers and a number of other books, papers and articles in his field of specialization. He has lectured extensively in all Argentinian provinces as well as in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Perú. He was the President of the Organizing Committee of the Seventh and Ninth National Congress of Teachers and Students of English and chaired its Academic Committee in 2000, 2003,2005 and 2006.


	Marina Kirac has taught English from Primary School through University. She has been a Head of School for more than 10 years. She is a University Lecturer in the Area of English Grammar at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional . She is also a Lecturer in Grammar, Linguistics and Phonology at various Colleges of Education in the Province of Buenos Aires :Institutos Superiores de Formación Docente Nros 41, 35 and 18 where she is also Head of Department. She is also a Lecturer in Research Methods at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. In 1995 she co-founded with Omar, St.Paul´s Institute of Research in Education, dully acredited by the Red Federal de Formación Docente Continua. She is a graduate teacher of English and Technical English from Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico with a a post-graduate course of specialization in English Grammar at Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado "Joaquín V. Gonzalez". She is also a Licenciada en Gestión Educativa from Universidad Nacional de Lanús. She is a candidate to the Master in TESOL from Universidad de León, Spain. She is a co-author of several of the 33 components of the best seller series "POLIMODAL ENGLISH" and of GRAMMAR EXPLORER published by Macmillan. Her latest series, also published by Macmillan, is "TOP TEENS"



	Omar and Marina got married in 1984 and have got two boys, Martin, aged 21 and Sebas, 18. Sebas is in his second year at the School of Law at Universidad Austral Martin has graduated as a Profesor de Inglés para la Enseñanza Primaria at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and is in his last year at University where he is training to become a teacher of English. The Villarreals live in Lomas de Zamora, a quiet neighbourhood in the South of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.