Fitxa persona

Alicia Ricart Vayá is Associate Professor at the Department of English and German Philology of Valencia since 2010. She has been teaching ESP in the degrees of Tourism, Medicine, Nursing, Podiatry, Physiotherapy and English Language in the degree of English Studies. She has been teaching English for Specific Purposes from 2002 to 2010 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she conducted her European Ph.D in 2008, entitled: “An ESP Comparative Analysis in Medical Research Articles. English-Spanish”. At the present time she is a member of the Research Institute on Applied Linguistics. Her main fields of research include Contrastive Rhetoric, Corpus Linguistics, Professional Communication, Discourse Analysis, Translation and Second Language Acquisition.