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Biography

Ana Belén Cabrejas Peñuelas is an Associate Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain), where she teaches academic English to undergraduate students and Discourse in the Media as well as Learning and Teaching of English at graduate level. She holds a MA (Northwestern State University, Louisiana, USA) and a PhD degree (University of Valencia, Spain) on ESL/EFL writing. Currently, Dr. Cabrejas-Peñuelas investigates the cognitive processes involved in second or foreign language writing, in particular the revision process and the use of the mother tongue, although she is also concerned with Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Systemic Functional Linguistics. She has authored and co-authored more than 30 publications (including books, book chapters and journal articles) and has given lectures in more than 30 national and international conferences. She has contributed chapters to international volumes and published papers in renown journals like Pragmatics Quarterly, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada (RESLA), Discourse and Society, Ibérica, Atlantis, Intercultural Pragmatics, Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación y ELIA Journal. She is the co-editor of IULMA Monografías, Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de Valencia (PUV). She is part of the research project Red temática sobre comunicación conflictiva y mediación: interacción, vínculos relacionales y cohesión social (CoCoMInt) (RED2022-134123-T).