Pauline Ernest pernest@uoc.edu Coordinator of English for Humanities and Philology Studies (UOC) Has been involved in language teaching for the past 25 years at primary, secondary and university levels. She has a degree in English and French from the University of Sussex (England) and a postgraduate Diploma in Teaching English as Second Language from the Royal Society of Arts (London). She has taught in Britain, USA, Mexico and Bangladesh and in Barcelona has worked at the British Council, ESADE and the School of Modern Languages at the University of Barcelona. She was also Head of English Studies and Head of the primary school at Oak House British school in Barcelona. She is now the Coordinator of English at the UOC. Her interests include e-learning, teacher development and classroom management, poetry translation and the development of strategies for incorporating literary texts into the language classroom. She has taken part in international congresses, providing workshops on teaching and studying literature for both students and teachers. She has published Writing skills. A problem-solving approach for upper-intermediate and more advanced students (1983, Cambridge University Press; co-written with Norman Coe and Robin Rycroft) and was co-translator, with Josep M. Fulquet, of the Catalan version of Birthday Letters/Cartes d'aniversari by Ted Hughes (1999, Edicions 62/Empúries), which was awarded the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or prize in 2000.