Dr. C. Arturo Yáñez received his B.A. (Licentiate in Education) from the Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela) with majors in education and foreign language teaching. His M.Ed. is from the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) where he specialized in curriculum design and foreign language education. His Ph.D. is from the University of Iowa (Iowa, USA), where he specialized in secondary education, Spanish linguistics and foreign language education. Before he came to Manchester University, Dr. Yáñez was a professor of Spanish and TESOL at the University of the Andes in Merida, Venezuela, for 25 years and a visiting professor of Spanish and TESOL at Arkansas Tech University. Dr. Yañez has published several refereed journal articles and two book chapters. His research is on the pedagogy of foreign languages, evaluation and writing across disciplines. The book chapter entitled “The Big Picture People Rarely Become Historians: Genre Systems and the Contradictions of General Education” has been widely cited by scholars in a number of disciplines in the USA and in Europe. He also published the book