Fitxa persona

PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Politècnica de València and lecturer in the English area of the Department of English and German Philology at the Universitat de València. She was the beneficiary of an FPI predoctoral scholarship funded by the Generalitat Valenciana for an international PhD (CAMILLE-UPV research group and University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States). She has a degree in English Philology as well as in French Philology from the Universitat de València, where she was awarded the Award for the Outstanding Graduate of the Year.

She belongs to the Interuniversity Research Institute of Modern Applied Languages ​​(IULMA) and to the research groups SILVA and TALIS. She is the director of the research project iTECLA: Innovative Telecollaborative Environments of Languages for Specific Purposes Acquistion, funded by Valencia’s regional government (Generalitat Valenciana); and co-director of the TALIS project: Tales from the Philippines, funded by the UNESCO Chair of the Universitat de València. She has also participated in numerous research and innovation projects.

She has organized and participated in numerous international conferences, and has published books (Editorial Comares), book chapters (Springer, De Gruyter, Equinox, Cambridge Scholars) and articles in indexed journals (Computers & Human Behavior, British Journal of Educational Technology, Iberia and Revista de Educación a Distancia, among others).

She has completed research stays at the University of Costa Rica; UNICAMP, Brazil; Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal; Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada; and UMass Amherst, United States. She has also been guest lecturer within the Erasmus + and Global Faculty programmes at Grenoble School of Management, France; Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro, Mexico; the University of Iceland; Aalto University, Finland; and Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.

Her teaching at the UV includes English for Specific Purposes (Business English III, Degree in International Business), applied linguistics (Advanced linguistic commentary, Master's Degree in Research in Languages and Literatures, Interpersonal Communication across Genres, Master's in Advanced English Studies) and teacher training (Teaching and Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language, Master's Degree in Secondary Education Teaching).

Her research interests include Computer-Assisted Language Learning Teaching and Assessment, English for Specific Purposes, teacher training and the design of resources for educational innovation, and intercultural communication through virtual exchange.