Plenary presenter’s profiles:

Rigoberto Castillo Ph.D. : Rigoberto Castillo holds a Ph.D in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. He is affiliated to Universidad Distrital, Bogotá. He has a book on Learner autonomy and is completing a book on Strategic knowledge and language learning. He is devoted to teacher education and consultancy for institutions in Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina.

Yair Ayala Zárate M.A.: Yair Ayala holds a M.A. in Applied Linguistics to TEFL from Universidad Distrital and is currently the Director of the Language Center at Universidad La Salle, Bogotá.