Daniel Pascual And Pilar Mur Dueñas give a session on digital texts in the EFL class as part of our Linguistic Corner activities

14th February 2019. In this session, we invited students to deal with the characteristics of digital genres that are commonly employed nowadays, and should be introduced in the language classroom, such as blogs. After discussing their communicative purposes and their similar and different affordances with other digital genres, we focused on some pedagogical and methodological…

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CERLIS 2018: Pilar Mur. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Mur-Dueñas, Pilar: “Knowledge dissemination through research project websites: engaging and interacting with a wide audience” Abstract Academics are currently not only required to produce primary output, i.e. peer-reviewed research articles, chapters or books, which constitutes certified and legitimised knowledge, and on which their status and reputation lie (Puschmann 2015), but they are increasingly pressed to…

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CLAVIER 2017: Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge

Mur-Dueñas, Pilar: “Academics’ digital discursive practices in English: A genre-based analysis of the websites of international research projects” Abstract Academics’ discursive practices are becoming more and more varied and demanding as it seems to be increasingly necessary not only to get one’s research results published in English high-impact journals, but also to disseminate research outcomes…

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