AESLA 2024: Paula Wood-Borque presents a study of teachers’ perceptions on the use of films and series in the EFL classroom

Paula Wood-Borque presented a paper in this year’s edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA), which took place at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain) on the 17th-19th April 2024. In her talk, titled “Using audiovisual materials in the EFL classroom: A study of perceptions towards a multimodal…

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AESLA 2024: Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz explores expert identity in X and Instagram

Our team member Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz participated in the 41º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), celebrated on the 17-29th April 2024 at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain). With her talk “Expert identity construction on social media: An X-Instagram cross-platform analysis”, she aimed to identify similar or differentiated patterns…

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Our participation in the next AESLA conference

Our team members Dr. Daniel Pascual, Dr. Vicky Gil, Paula Wood-Borque and Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz will participate in the upcoming AESLA conference (41 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada), which will take place next 17th-19th April at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain).  The conference’s motto this year will be “Doing…

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UPCEL 2024: Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz approaches knowledge dissemination practices on expert Instagram profiles

Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz presented the current stage of her research at the 5th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics, held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on the 23rd-24th January 2024. In her presentation, titled “Knowledge Dissemination on Instagram: Exploring Recontextualization and remediation practices on physiotherapy accounts”, she explained the results of a pilot…

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CMC 2023: Rosa Lorés explores intertextual patterns in science dissemination

Rosa Lorés Sanz participated in CMC-Corpora 2023 (10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities), which was held 14th-15th September 2023 by the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). In her talk, titled “The recontextualization of expert knowledge: intertextual patterns in digital science dissemination”,…

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CMC 2023: Ana Sancho analyses science dissemination practices on Twitter

Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz presented her paper “Scientific communication on social media: Analysing Twitter for knowledge recontextualisation” at the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities, which was organised by the University of Mannheim (Germany) and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). In this conference, which took place on…

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10th Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English: Pilar Mur Dueñas’ plenary talk on digital dissemination practices

In her plenary talk, titled  “Scientists’ digital dissemination practices: A look into the recontextualization of specialised knowledge”, Dr Mur-Dueñas shed light into the process of digital scientific dissemination of knowledge exploring some of discursive, communicative phenomena through evolving digital texts, genres and practices. She explained the SciDis approach to recontextualization as a cognitive and discursive…

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AELFE 2023: Isabel Herrando explores genre and discourse practices in explainers

Isabel Herrando participated in the AELFE-LSPPC 2023 (European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes – Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association) joint international conference, which was held in Zaragoza the days 28th-30th June 2023.  In her paper, titled “Exploring the genre and discourse practices of web-text explainers”, Isabel analysed 10 explainers from the website The…

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Pilar Mur-Dueñas will be a keynote speaker in Brno

Our team member Dr. Pilar Mur-Dueñas will deliver a plenary talk at the 10th Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English, which will be held at the Faculty of Education of the Mazarykova Univerzita (Brno, Czech Republic) the days 4th-5th September 2023.  In her talk, titled “Scientists’ digital dissemination  practices: A look into the recontextualization…

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