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José Aldemar Álvarez V. is a professor of applied linguistics and second language acquisition and teaching at Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He has published in the areas of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, language policy, language teaching approaches, teacher education, and intercultural communication. Currently he is researching and writing about social networking sites for language learning from a multimodal social semiotic perspective. With more than 14 years of teaching experience, José A. has taught a myriad of English related courses including language skills, teaching methods, culture, research in EFL, and ESL composition –which he taugh for 4 years in the Writing Program of  the University of Arizona, USA.  He holds a BEd in Spanish-English (Universidad Pedagógica), an MA degree in Applied Linguistics to TEFL (Universidad Distrital), an MA degree in Hispanic Linguistics (Instituto Caro y Cuervo), and MA and PhD degree in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. 

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