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Anke Berns, Manuel Palomo Duarte, Juan Manuel Dodero, Manuel 
Pérez-Zurera 
University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain 
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Mobile ьpps and Games to Foster Students’ Writing Competences
 
Bio data 
Anke Berns
is currently working as a German Lecturer in the English and French 
Department at the University of Cádiz (Spain) where she received her Ph.D. in German 
as a Foreign Language in 2002. She has been working for more than 18 years as a 
teacher and teacher trainer. Her research interests focus specifically on the design of 
motivating and innovative teaching and learning materials in the Area of Foreign 
Language Learning, a field in which she has published several books and made 
contributions to peer-reviewed journals as well as international research conferences. 
Manuel Palomo-Duarte
has a Computer Science degree from the University of Seville 
and a Ph.D. from the University of Cadiz. He is currently a lecturer and Degree 
Coordinator for Computer Science at the University of Cádiz (Spain). His teaching focuses 
on subjects related to web science and serious games using open-source software. His 
main research interests are learning technologies and collaborative development, fields in 
which he has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals and research conferences. 
Juan-Manuel Dodero
has a CS degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a 
Computer Science Ph.D. from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is currently an 
Associate Professor of the University of Cádiz (Spain). He has also been a lecturer of the 
Carlos III University of Madrid and worked as a R&D engineer for Intelligent Software 
Components S.A. His main research interests are Web science and engineering and 
technology-enhanced learning, fields in which he has co-authored numerous articles in 
journals and contributed to research conferences.