Jorge Arús Hita

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• PhD English Linguistics
• Faculty Member at Complutense University of Madrid

The current paper concentrates on the grammar of relational processes in English and Spanish, both from a theoretical and an applied perspective. From the theoretical perspective, the study provides a contrastive account of relational processes within the systemic-functional framework provided by the extensive cartographic reference grammar of the...

This paper explores the accessibility and visibility of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) in academic and professional contexts across languages, academic profiles, and disciplines through a questionnaire-based study. Developed by M.A.K. Halliday, SFL offers a unique, appliable approach to linguistics, positioning language as a resource for mea...

Applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics began to drift further apart in the 1960s. There were obviously many reasons for this, including the need to support the wide range of strands of applications at the time; for example, (machine) translation studies were included since the institutionalisation of translation studies as a distinct disci...

This paper describes and compares the realisations, functions and interrelations of Theme as point of departure (POD), i.e. Theme stripped of any reference to “what the clause is about”, in two languages — English and Spanish — and two genres — academic writing and casual conversation. The ultimate goal is to find out which POD characteristics are...

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García Laborda, J., Arús Hita, J., & Mashhadi, A. (2024). Introduction: Language teaching feedback and assessment aided by digital technologies. Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 3-5. https://doi.org/10.22055/rals.2024.19543 The rapid advancement of AI is transforming language assessment by providing innovative tools like G-Rubric...

It can be argued that if a theoretical model is not visible, it is as if it did not exist, and if it is visible but not accessible, it might as well not exist. In this light, my talk addresses some of the issues raised in the conference’s CFP, namely the visibility and accessibility of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) across languages, as well...

This paper intends to offer a practical case of application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to Foreign Language Teaching (FLT). While there is research offering very interesting insights for the application of SFL to Foreign and Second Language teaching contexts, none of it provides a straightforward application of SFL to the actual design...

While approaches informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have been widely applied to the field of language education since the 1960s, the idea of the system embodying the meaning potential of language in context, represented as a system network, could be used to make a much more significant contribution to second language (L2) or foreign...

This paper looks at projection in the discourse of news reports in English and Spanish. The analysis reveals the extent to which projection pervades these texts, not only at clause complex level – the traditional object of study of projection – but also below the clause complex, at clause simple and at group level. The discussion of a number of exa...

This paper offers a detailed study of Theme as point of departure in English and Spanish academic texts. A corpus of around 45,000 words is examined from different perspectives to compare the realizations, functions and interplays of the point of departure in these two languages. Examples reveal crosslinguistic contrasts in terms of (a) the preferr...

El propósito de este artículo es explorar los significados de las coletillas modales del español en la metafunción interpersonal y el estrato léxico-gramatical desde el enfoque sistémico funcional del lenguaje. En particular, se ofrece una descripción del funcionamiento de estos recursos a partir de un análisis trinocular en muestras de habla del c...

This contribution aims to show how the study of a specific construction can benefit from the exploitation of a language corpus in combination with the use of a specific computational linguistic model designed for the lexical analysis of constructions. The construction in question is the light verb construction and the linguistic model the so-called...

This paper uses a trinocular approach – i.e. from below, from above and from roundabout – to describe Theme as point of departure (POD) in English and Spanish casual conversation (thus avoiding the more controversial ‘what-the-clause-is-about’ aspect of Theme). This research is part of a long-term contrastive study which includes the description of...

This chapter discusses the ways in which support entities and higher education institutions can collaborate in order to help refugees become integrated in the host society, notably Spanish society. While support entities play a crucial role at the early stages by providing refugees with aid addressing some of their most basic needs, these early int...

Research on academic stance and evaluation has been prolific over the past few decades. Few studies, however, have focused on exploring the evaluative potential of that-constructions in shaping the structure of academic arguments. To address this lacuna, the current study aimed at exploring the potential impact of the distinct communicative functio...

This paper presents a systemic-functional contrastive analysis of an original English text – a chapter, ‘The Land of Shadow’ from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings – and its Spanish translation, ‘El País de la Sombra’, focusing on the shifts in translation of representations of motion and of saying. These two realms of experience provide an...

The emerging paradigm of mobile open social learning for languages (MOSL4L) integrates the three elements of mobile, open and social, and in so doing it creates the idea of a conceptually different language learning space. It is a space full of opportunity and challenge, relevant to a post-pandemic world in which we are looking for ways to build ba...

The emerging paradigm of mobile open social learning for languages (MOSL4L) integrates the three elements of mobile, open and social, and in so doing it creates the idea of a conceptually different language learning space. It is a space full of opportunity and challenge, relevant to a post-pandemic world in which we are looking for ways to build ba...

In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interrelated perspectives: ontogenesis, or the development of the language system in the individual; logogenesis, or the development of meanings in across texts and discourses; and phylogenesis, or the changes to individual language systems over time. We discu...

In Memoriam Dedicamos este volumen monográfico a la memoria de nuestros queridos colegas, Elsa Ghio y Giovanni Parodi, insignes lingüistas latinoamericanos, prematuramente fallecidos en 2020. La fecunda obra de Elsa Ghio constituye de alguna manera, el germen de las contribuciones recogidas en este volumen, el cual no habría visto la luz sin el ent...

Edición de número monográfico especial

Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) have received widespread attention. Research on these constructions, however, has for the most part focused exclusively on their syntactic and lexical-semantic properties. Additionally, studies devoted to specific LVCs tend to neglect the phrasal-semantic and pragmatic variety brought about by the combination of a li...

This presentation shows how to use a language corpus for the study of specific constructions, in this case a particular type of light verb construction, with light give in English and its Spanish equivalent with dar. Examples of both constructions can be seen in (1a, b, c), for English, and (2a, b, c) for Spanish. As reflected in the examples, in t...

For several years now, the application of systemic functional theory to the description of languages other than English has been helping to fine-tune descriptive practice. Typological work on Spanish, for instance, has shown some areas in which this language is very different from English and mere transfer comparison does not work. One example is t...

This paper reports on a crosslinguistic corpus-based investigation of linguistic strategies of quoting and reporting of speech and thought across six genetically unrelated languages (Arabic, English, Dagaare, Hindi, Spanish and Japanese). Specifically, the study draws on Michael Halliday's concept of projection that covers the traditional categorie...

he Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday’s Introdu...

Review of this book belonging to the collected works of Halliday.

Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús Hita University of Portsmouth / Facultad de Filología, UCM [English Text Construction, 9:1] June 2016. 220 pp. John Benjamins Publishing Company https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/etc.9.1/main

Los laboratorios de idiomas son una herramienta de gran valor en el apoyo a la enseñanza de lenguas. En una Facultad como la de Filología, donde se enseñan más de XX lenguas, este tipo de laboratorios se ha convertido en algo imprescindible. Los laboratorios de idiomas facilitan la enseñanza mediante el acceso a recursos educativos punteros. Sin em...

This paper presents Eating out, a Moodle-based digital learning resource for EFL teaching that can be run both on CALL and MALL platforms. It is argued that MALL resources do not necessarily need to be specifically designed for such platforms. Rather, a carefully planned methodology and a well-grounded theoretical basis for the explanation of lexic...

Language Learning apps have exploded in a few short years but are they any good?

In this paper, experiences from different research groups illustrate the state-of-the-art of Mobile Assisted Language Learning (henceforth, MALL) in formal and non-formal education. These research samples represent recent and on-going progress made in the field of MALL at an international level and offer encouragement for practitioners who are tryi...

This paper outlines current work on the construction of a high-quality, richly-annotated and register-diversified parallel corpus for the English-Spanish language pair, as currently carried out within the framework of the MULTINOT project. The corpus consists of original and translated texts in both directions and is designed as a multifunctional r...

Abstract: This paper reports on work carried out by members of the ATLAS research group within the SO-CALL-ME (Social Ontology-driven Cognitively Augmented Language Learning Environment) project. One of the mobile applications created by the group is Eating out, an EFL autonomous learning digital resource developed on Moodle. The paper describes th...

Rubrics created by the ATLAS group for the evaluation of foreign language practice apps within the SO-CALL-ME project

In the introduction to this volume, we promised to present a state-of-the-art of technological and methodological innovation in the teaching and processing of specialized linguistic domains. It is our belief that the chapters included in this compilation have not only offered valuable insights into the promised state-of-the-art but also opened a nu...

Mobile learning is without any doubt the next step in the evolution of educational technology as it offers modern methods of support to the process of learning through the use of mobile instruments. However, although there are a huge number of educational applications in the market at the moment, the educational value of many of them is rather ques...

In this paper we focus on the contrastive corpus annotation of certain aspects of the phenomena of Thematisation, on the one hand, and of Modality, on the other, in the framework of the CONTRANOT project, a research effort aimed at the creation and validation of contrastive functional descriptions through corpus analysis and annotation. Our most im...

Presents the state of the art of technological and methodological innovation in the teaching and processing of languages for specific purposes Theoretical analysis, fundamental research, and case studies on the current and future directions of technology-enhanced applied linguistics A high-ranking group of international researchers presents findi...

This paper provides an examination of both the qualities and limitations of the most salient MALL (Mobil Assisted Language Learning) applications available at the moment by assessing their features from a pedagogic point of view. Operating systems like Google’s open source Android, Apple’s iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows 7, are getting more sophistica...

Rubrics, or documents for standardized assessment have been generalized in education in the past decade, and several benefits can be drawn from their use: a more objective assessment, a clear understanding of the criteria used, a homogenization of expectations and desirable features, etc. Thus, there have been several attempts to create rubrics fo...

In this short paper, we present some initial work on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (henceforth, MALL) undertaken by the ATLAS research group. ATLAS embraced this multidisciplinary field (that cuts across Mobile Learning and Computer Assisted Language Learning, henceforth, CALL) as a natural step in their quest to find learning formula for prof...

This paper looks at hybridity at clause level as a way to account for the interpretation of processes such as (1a), where the metaphorical use of run (versus its literal use in 1b) renders the otherwise material process a hybrid material/relational process. (1a) The Dorset coast path runs along a spectacular rugged cliffline from Poole Harbour to...

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En este capítulo se presenta una serie de actividades autocorregibles diseñadas para la asignatura “Pragmática, discurso y texto en inglés I”, de la Licenciatura en Filología Inglesa, aplicables también a la asignatura de “Pragmática y discurso en lengua inglesa” del Grado en Estudios Ingleses. Estas actividades, que constan de preguntas de diverso...

Technological developments in ubiquitous computing and wireless communication together with the adoption of mobile multimedia devices and applications have translated into huge opportunities for English as a foreign language (EFL). Operating systems like Google’s open source Android, Apple’s iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows 7 are getting more sophistic...

In this paper we present the preliminary results of an empirical study designed to test contrastive features of the category of Theme in English and Spanish through corpus analysis and manual annotation. Using as our theoretical basis the more general features of the model of thematisation proposed in Lavid, Arus and Zamorano (2010), the study desc...

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking are...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the clausal thematic features observed in two newspaper genres —news reports and commentaries— can be interpreted as textual signals of their different generic characterization. This is done through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a sample consisting of thirty-three English texts, divided int...

This paper presents an innovative way in which face-to-face English language classes can be optimally complemented by innovative ICALL (Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning) software. The software uses a linguistic formalism based upon the Systemic-Functional approach integrated with the notional-functional syllabus model from The Common...

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Filología y Tecnología: introducción a la escritura, la informática, la información (2.ª ed. revisada y ampliada) por Ana M.ª Fernández-Pampillón Cesteros, María Goicoechea de Jorge, Luis Hernández Yáñez, Dámaso López García (eds.) se encuentra bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported Este libro recoge...

This article proposes a strategy to create inductive and incremental LOs in tertiary education low-tech contexts such as the field of Humanities. We take a teaching context to be low-tech when the teachers are not computer specialists and also have poor IT support. This is the case with many university schools in Spain, such as the Faculty of Philo...

The ever-increasing presence of e-learning tools in education at different levels has brought about a wealth of electronic teaching material, often convertible into Learning Objects (LOs). However, in spite of the advantages of the LO model and the technology associated with it, there is a gap between the IT knowledge and skills of the potential us...

El Campus Virtual de la UCM (CV-UCM) es una herramienta de trabajo académico plenamente incorpo-rada en la Facultad de Filología. Sin embargo, los estudios de máster adaptados al EEES no han incorpo-rado en su docencia el CV. Este hecho es sorprendente y preocupante porque se trata de una formación di-rigida a profesionales que necesitan utilizar l...

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Este capítulo propone un modelo de explotación conjunta del Laboratorio de idiomas multimedia y el Campus Virtual que maximiza el potencial de cada uno de estos entornos de enseñanza. Se pretende facilitar tanto la exportabilidad, gracias al Campus Virtual, del trabajo realizado en el Laboratorio como la monitorización, gracias al Laboratorio, del...

This article proposes a strategy to create inductive and incremental LOs in tertiary education low-tech contexts such as the field of Humanities. We take a teaching context to be low-tech when the teachers are not computer specialists and also have poor IT support. This is the case with many university schools in Spain, such as the Faculty of Philo...

Early Computer Assisted Language Learning programs reflected the structural/behavioral view of language. This computer-based language instruction was characterized by the use of software that was prescriptive by nature. As developments in computer hardware and software were made, it appeared that AI might offer a way to give CALL software the abili...

About Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish This book offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English. The authors analyse Spanish according to the three main 'metafunctions': ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The result is a comprehensive examination of...

This paper presents a contrastive study within the general, expanding context of applications of SFL (Systemic Functional Linguistics) to LOTE (Languages Other Than English). It compares thematic resources in English and Spanish, and thus seeks to contribute to the ever-widening understanding of the scope and functions of Theme and the different wa...

This article discusses the concept of didactic scaffolding, with special attention to its application in computer systems, and presents the design of a novel and complex type of scaffolding mechanism in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning system. This work is contextualised in a novel professional English course that is currently bei...

This paper presents an innovative way in which face-to-face English language classes can be optimally complemented by innovative ICALL (Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning) software. The software uses a linguistic formalism based upon the Systemic-Functional approach integrated with the notional-functional syllabus model from The Common...

p>This paper describes a methodology which combines the use of original comparable texts and bidirectional translations for the contrastive study of linguistic phenomena. The methodology is based on the following procedures: (1) analysis of the preferred linguistic choices in original comparable texts; (2) analysis of the preferred linguistic choic...

This paper shows an application of SF theory to L2 (second-language) teaching, in particular EFL (English as a foreign language). The systemic conception of context and language as a continuum proves helpful in the design of a L2 teaching method in which language is taught in context, with lexicogrammatical realizations reflecting choices at the le...