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Araguaney

The yellow tree on the upper left is called "araguaney" (Tabebuia chrysantha or 'golden voice'), a name from indigenous (Caribbean) origin. It belongs to the Bignoneaceae family and was decreed as Venezuelan's national tree in 1948.

Education, Background and Teaching

  • • HDR: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches. Université de Nantes. France. November 2002.
  • • Ph.D (Foreign Language Education). University of Texas at Austin. USA. August 1977
  • • M.A. in Russian Language and Literature. Université de Lyon. France. June 1973
  • • B.A. in Russian Language and Literature. Université de Lyon. France. June 1971.

  • • Coordinator of the Research Group on Scientific Discourse Analysis. Gradute School of Medicine. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida. Venezuela. 2000

  • • Professor of English for Medical Purposes. Graduate School of Medicine. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida. Venezuela. 1979
  • • Professor of Russian. Modern Language Department. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida. Venezuela. 1981-1990.

The teaching of English for medical purposes mainly implies courses on corpus linguistics, scientific reading and writing, contrastive rhetoric and genre analysis