Development of Writing Skills in Children in Diverse Cultural Contexts: Contributions to Teaching and Learning

Alina Galvão Spinillo is a Full-Professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Cognitive Psychology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She is also one of the leaders of the Group for Research in Psychology of Mathematics Education at the same university. She is a member of the Working Group Sociocognitive and Language Development of the National Association for Research and Post-Graduate Programs in Psychology, Brazil, and a member of the Working Group Cognitive and Linguistic Processes in Mathematics Education of the Brazilian Society of Mathematics Education. She is a level 1 researcher with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. She has carried out studies and publications on mathematics reasoning, literacy, writing and text comprehension in elementary school children.

Carmen Sotomayor is a Full-Professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education at the University of Chile. She coordinates the area of ​​Language Teaching and Learning at this institution, and she trains primary education teachers at the same university. She is a member of the Chilean Association of Researchers in Education, and a member of the SIG Writing, Special Interest Group, of the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI). She is a consultant for the Ministry of Education in projects on learning standards and teacher training in Language and for UNESCO in the curricular analysis for the ERCE reading and writing tests for Latin America. She has carried out studies and publications on writing in primary school, including the use of technology for teaching writing.

Alina Galvão Spinillo 是巴西佩南布科聯邦大學認知心理學研究所的全職教授。她同時也是該大學數學教育心理學研究小組的領導者之一。她是巴西國家心理學研究與研究生課程協會社會認知與語言發展工作小組的成員，以及巴西數學教育學會數學教育中的認知與語言過程工作小組的成員。她是國家科學與技術發展委員會的1級研究員。她在小學生的數學推理、識字、寫作和文本理解方面進行了研究和出版。

Carmen Sotomayor 是智利大學高等教育研究所的全職教授。她負責該機構的語言教學與學習領域，並在同一所大學培訓初等教育教師。她是智利教育研究者協會的成員，也是歐洲學習與教學研究協會（EARLI）寫作特別興趣小組的成員。她是智利教育部在語言學習標準和教師培訓項目中的顧問，並為聯合國教科文組織提供有關拉丁美洲ERCE閱讀和寫作測試的課程分析。她在小學寫作方面進行了研究和出版，包括使用技術來教學寫作。