Valentina Concu, Carlos Raffo

Valentina Concu is an Assistant Professor for Linguistics and German at the department of Foreign Languages at the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. She got her Ph.D. in German Linguistics from Purdue University, Indiana, USA. Her research interests focus on, but are not limited to, historical corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, complexity theory, complex network science and second language acquisition. Her current research projects focus on pragmatic variation in the history of German, and the teaching of German as a Foreign Language.

Carlos Raffo is a Full Professor in the fields of German language, grammar, and reading comprehension at the School of Languages at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. His areas of interest in research include vocabulary and grammar acquisition, materials analysis, and development, reading comprehension in foreign language and teaching of German for specific purposes. He currently holds the position of Secretary of the Students’ affairs office. He is a member of evaluation committees in the areas of international scholarships, professors’ evaluations, and community action programmes. He is head and member researcher at various research projects.