About the Author Valeria Scherf Vanstrien was born in the “German” community of Puerto Rico, in Misiones Province, Argentina, where German was the language spoken at home. She attended elementary, middle, and high school at San Alberto Magno School. She attended the Superior Institute “Antonio Ruiz de Montoya” where, in 1995, she received a B.A. in English with certification for High School. In 1995, she also obtained a degree as Technician in the Practice on Taxes and Prevision at the Escuela Superior de Comercio N° 6 "Mariano Moreno" (High School of Commerce No. 6 "Mariano Moreno") in Posadas, Misiones Province, Argentina. She worked as an elementary teacher at the school, “Posadas Colegio Moderno,” as a high school teacher in the high school and tertiary level of the school Comercio Nº 2 “Independencia Nacional,” and in the tertiary institute IPESMI in the towns of Jardín América and Eldorado, in Misiones Province, Argentina. In 2006, she was selected by the American organization VIF (Visiting International Faculty) to come to work as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher in a public school in Charlotte Mecklenburg County Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. In 2009, she received a Master's Degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Greensboro College. Two years later she received a Master's Degree in Education at Montreat College, in North Carolina, USA. In 2014, she published her first three books: Historias de europeos en la tierra colorada (Spanish edition), Stories of the Red Soil Immigrants (English edition), Nada es para siempre (Spanish edition), and A Guide for ESL Teachers: How to Teach the Historical Background of English Irregularities in Modern English. She currently lives with her husband and children in the United States.
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