Linguistic Corner

The Linguistic Corner aims to prepare activities intended mostly for undergraduate students completing the Degree in English studies who are particularly interested in the study of the English language.

Through the Linguistic Corner we aim to:

develop the participants’ general competences
enable them to know or discover specific topics concerning English
discuss current issues around the role of English as a Lingua Franca
deal with cultural aspects of the English world critically
mentor students about academic and professional options

Past seminars

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Our Events

That's the way we are... We take part in different kind of projects aim to generate knowledge about digital genres in English used by academics and professionals to strengthen the visibility of their research output.

Latest events

Isabel Corona opens the sessions of the Linguistic Corner with a workshop on translation and Gibraltar

13th December 2018 In the first session of the Linguistic Corner, we carried out an analysis of the main techniques used to translate news from Spanish into English and the effect that several processes, specific of journalistic texts, are put to use in the translation of controversial issues, in our case, news about Gibraltar published…

First project meeting

All project members met at the Universidad de Zaragoza to advance in our research seeking to answer the project research questions. Methodological and theoretical aspects were the object of lively, fruitful discussions.

Seminar by Margaret Cargill on English for Research Publication Purposes – in Practice

21st September 2018 Margaret Cargill from the University of Adelaide (Australia) talked to us about how to design activities for student groups of different kinds and levels of experience, focusing on material development, including the use of corpora, about the provision of feedback to authors, how to train collaborators in ERPP practice and on the…

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