María Ángeles Velilla-Sánchez

University of Zaragoza | UNIZAR · Department of English and German

The contextual nature of intercultural communication, especially concerning speakers’ pragmatic choices to negotiate or balance the dichotomy of ‘language of communica-tion’ vs ‘language of identification’ (Fiedler, 2011) has become more prominent in recent research. A wide variety of studies have shown that the accommodative pro-cesses are shaped...

Online videos have gained popularity as a means for academics to communicate complex scientific ideas both to specialist and non-specialist audiences ( Erviti & Stengler 2016 ; León & Bourk 2018 ; Luzón & Pérez-Llantada 2019 ). Nonetheless, concerns are raised about the potential journalistic or oversimplified nature of such science communication e...

This paper examines English-medium instruction lectures at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and problematises the extent to which English is only the ‘medium’ or the ‘lingua franca’ to obtain a teaching-learning purpose as regards content or whether these lectures are also sensitive to language learning. The study analyses metalinguistic comments...

Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar clases magistrales de inglés como medio de instrucción en la Universidad de Zaragoza (España) para definir hasta qué punto el inglés es sólo el “medio” o la “lengua franca” para obtener un propósito de enseñanza-aprendizaje respecto al contenido de las asignaturas o si estas clases también son sensibles al...

English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) for academic activities in Spanish higher education institutions. The notion of ELF is now being redefined including in its conceptualization a multilingual nature of communication (Jenkins, 2015). This conception is interesting for researchers in English-medium instruction (EMI). Therefore, thi...

English is undeniably the lingua franca in many domains, including most academic encounters worldwide. This phenomenon has become a major and expanding field of research within Applied Linguistics. To better understand the dynamics of ELF in academic interactions, there is a need to further investigate ELF usage from its pragmatic perspective in sp...

As a result of the thriving process of internationalization that many Spanish Universities are undergoing, there is a recent interest in offering English as medium of instruction courses, English being adopted as the common language of choice for academic activities. In this paper I present the preliminary results of research analyzing the pragmati...

English as a medium of instruction (EMI) is an increasingly global phenomenon. There seems to be a change, in non Anglophone countries, from English being taught as a foreign language (EFL) to English being the medium of instruction for many academic subjects. At University level, in Spain, the increase in the provision of courses in English is lar...

Email correspondence has become one of the most useful ways for global communication, and more precisely for international business communication. Diverse studies of global communication in English have been carried out concerning ELF (English as lingua franca) and BELF (Business English as lingua franca). The purpose of this research is to bring t...