Jornada de difusión online proyecto de investigación Nutcracker, 24-25 junio 2021

NUTCRACKER: Sistema de detección, rastreo, monitorización y análisis del discurso terrorista en la Red Funded by: MINECO. 2017-2020. FFI2016-79748-R Proyectos I+d+I – Programa estatal de investigación, desarrollo e innovación orientada a los retos de la sociedad. “Nutcracker: System for Detection, Tracking, Monitoring and Analysis of the Discourse of Terror on the Net” LINK 24 JUNE … Read more

Where´ is home? EU citizens as migrants.

Approaches to migration, language and identity 2020 AMLI Conference (www) University of Sussex, Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 June 2021 Book of abstracts. Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Elena RemigiUniversidad de Murcia / The In Limbo Project When? Thursday June 10, Panel A: Foregrounding migrant perspectives 11:25 UK time Abstract Since January 2021, UK and EU citizens can no longer … Read more

How learners are using corpora in EMI contexts

This talk was part of Cambridge University Press ELS Insights on Demand. You can download my presentation slides here. Here´s a list of the references I used in this presentation: Biber, D. (2019). Text-linguistic approaches to register variation. Register Studies, 1(1), 42-75. Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Brian, A. (2020). A case study of corpus-informed ESP language learning materials for EMI psychology students at the University of Padova. Curry, N. & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Understanding Lecturers’ Practices and Processes: A Qualitative Investigation of … Read more

Using slack to help you run an academic research project

Running an international research project where many researchers from different institutions are involved may seem like a daunting task. COVID-19 has not made things any easier lately. While many of us have relied in the past on emails to run our projects, there are more efficient ways to keep everybody in the loop, and, at … Read more

There are infinite ways of using language

Epistemological relativity, for an ELT professional, means that one acceptsthat there are infinite ways of using language and that differences do notautomatically call for judgmental evaluation. (Leung, 2005: p. 138) Leung, C. (2005). Convivial communication: Recontextualizing communicative competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 119-144. Check other quotations here.