Name
Second and Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Alicante
Members
- Pastor Cesteros, Susana (spc@ua.es), Director of the Group
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Department of Spanish Philology, General Linguistics and Literary Theory, University of Alicante
President of the Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera (ASELE) (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language) - Aleson Carbonell, Marian (aleson@ua.es), Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Alicante
- Bell Kruse, David (david.bell@ua.es), Associate Professor, Dept. of English Philology, University of Alicante
- Comes Peña, Claudia (claudia.comes@ua.es), Profesora asociada, Área de Lingüística, Dpto. de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante
- Contreras de la Llave, Natalia (natalia.contreras@csidiomas.ua.es), External collaborator, Centro Superior de Idiomas de la Universidad de Alicante
- Escabias Lloret, Pilar (pescabias@csidiomas.ua.es), Associate Lecturer, Dept. of English Philology, University of Alicante, Centro Superior de Idiomas de la Universidad de Alicante
- Galindo Merino, Mª Mar (mar.galindo@ua.es), Profesora Ayudante Doctor, Dpto. Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante
- Gil del Moral, Ana María (anamgildelmoral@gmail.com), External Collaborator, Doctoral Candidate
- Mora Sánchez, Miguel Ángel (ma.mora@ua.es), Profesor asociado, Área de Lingüística, Dpto. de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Español, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Alicante
- Morell Moll, Teresa (mt.morell@ua.es), Profesora titular, Dpto. Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Alicante
- Palazón Speckens, Manuel (mpalazon@flordelis.org), Profesor asociado, Dpto. Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Alicante, Centro Formación Personas Adultas Joan Lluís Vives, Ibi
- Pérez Escribano, Mª Isabel, Associate Lecturer, Dept. of English Philology, University of Alicante, Assistant Director in the international programme Spanish Studies Abroad
- Rodríguez Lifante, Alberto (alberto.rodriguez@ua.es), Profesor asociado, Dpto. Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante
- Tabuenca Cuevas, María (maria.tabuenca@ua.es), External Collaborator, Dept. of Primary Education, Catholic University San Antonio (UCAM, Murcia)
- Timofeeva, Larissa (timofeeva@ua.es), Profesora Ayudante Doctor, Dpto. Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura, Universidad de Alicante
Objectives
The main objective of the Acqua group is to develop applied research on the processes of learning and teaching second languages, through teamwork in the different areas involved (English and Spanish for non-native speakers), based on the previous collaboration of the Departments of English and Spanish Philology, to which most of its members belong, both in the MA in Teaching Spanish and English as SL/LE, and in the MA in English and Spanish for Specific Purposes and Business.
Lines of research
- Lifelong learning (Lifelong Learning)
- Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
- Bilingualism and teaching
- Language teaching for specific purposes
- Second language assessment: levels, criteria and procedures
- Training of second and foreign language teachers
- Innovation in language teaching methodologies
- Interaction and communicative language learning
- Linguistics applied to second language acquisition
- Multilingualism and Multicompetence
- Social networks and foreign language learning
- Second languages and immigration
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) applied to language learning
- Integrated treatment of languages in the education system (co-official languages in the same community and foreign languages)