Yris Casart completed her BA degree in English Language and Literature with the summa cum laude distinction by Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela, 1996). In 2004, she earned her master's degree in Applied Linguistics at Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela). She has been a professor and researcher at the Languages Department (USB) since 2003. During 2007-2009, she was an accredited member of the Researcher Promotion Program by the Venezuelan Foundation for the Promotion of Research. She has published six research papers and has been a speaker in nine conferences. Her studies focus on the teaching and assessment of reading comprehension skills in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). She is currently conducting her doctoral research on the evaluation of and for the development of EFL reading comprehension skills from the sociocultural perspective (dynamic assessment). Her thesis supervisor is Dr. Olga Esteve Ruescas.