Rosana Villares

University of Zaragoza | UNIZAR · Department of English and German

Twitter for academic purposes has been analysed from multiple perspectives such as genre analysis, the use of multimodality and hypertextuality, or type of participants; yet interactivity between writers and readers remains under-researched. This study analyses academic-related conversations from the Twitter conference genre, particularly focusing...

This study examines the emerging digital genre of the Twitter conference, which remediates the traditional academic conference. Twitter conference presentations (TCPs) are composed of six-tweet threads where academics share their ongoing research projects. In the context of Open Science, this paper aims to analyse how academics craft these presenta...

Framed within the current European Union’s educational policies aiming at developing communicative competence and digital literacy in a foreign language, this chapter presents an innovative, action-oriented, task-based, and technology-mediated approach to language assessment. Building on these principles, we propose the use of the e-portfolio as a...

One of the main responsibilities of researchers is the circulation and dissemination of scientific knowledge. However, this task has evolved over time, and new forms of digital communication have emerged. This study explores the science communication strategies used by researchers in an emerging digital genre, the Twitter conference presentation. A...

This paper explores the implementation of internationalisation in the Spanish university system and its effects from a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative corpus linguistics techniques and qualitative interview protocols. Results showed that Spanish universities' written policies align with the national framework and rely on a complement...

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies es una publicación del Departamento de Filología inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Cada artículo es evaluado de forma anónima por dos informantes. Miscelánea difunde artículos sobre lingüística inglesa, literaturas escritas en inglés, pensamiento, cine y estudios culturales del ám...

This paper describes the design of an innovative approach to teaching and learning academic communication and intercultural linguistics in the English Studies field to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. More specifically, we describe the learning outcomes, sequence of tasks and assessment of competencies for an itinerary...

DIGITAL SCIENCE ACTION GROUP (D_SCI) is a multidisciplinary research group of researchers in the fields of computation and physics of complex systems, biomedic al and health sciences, data science, applied linguists, and specialists in languages for specific purposes, academic writing, digital literacy development and science journalism. It s aim i...

The implementation of English-taught degrees has proven to be a challenge for many non-Anglophone universities, leading to the integration of content and language (ICLHE) to tackle potential linguistic difficulties for students. This presentation focuses on the English-taught undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Management from the U...

https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2021.12 One of the main goals of Spanish higher education is the consolidation of an internationalised university system through international visibility, attractiveness, competitiveness and collaboration. As the literature reports, English plays a relevant role in internationalisation strategies, so this paper examines...

One of the main goals of Spanish higher education is the consolidation of an internationalised university system through international visibility, attractiveness, competitiveness and collaboration. As the literature reports, English plays a relevant role in internationalisation strategies, so this paper examines the relationship between internation...

Internationalisation has positioned writing for publication in international and prestigious journals at the core of institutional objectives. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews, this chapter analyses the type of resources and strategies used by Spanish scholars to develop academic literacy and engage in international academia. Results...

http://www.aesla.org.es/ojs/index.php/RAEL/article/view/445

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205145

This paper examines the extent of linguistic diversity in modern academia, in opposition to the claims of the Englishisation of academia. A questionnaire was distributed to explore language choice in the research-and teaching-oriented practices of Spanish scholars. Results showed the existence of biliteracy practices for research activities, wherea...

https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89284# || In delving into the context of globalising trends and neoliberal educational policies, this PhD thesis aims to explore how the discourse of internationalisation, which is considered to be a direct consequence of globalisation, is constructed in top-down policies of universities. In particular, this study so...

Using corpus methods, this study explores the role of Language Policy (LP) documents in the internationalisation process of Spanish universities. It aims at understanding how non-Anglophone universities integrate English and local languages in the functions of education, research, and administration. Content analysis was used for the identification...

Download > http://dehesa.unex.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10662/5263/978-84-608-9678-4.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y | | THE PURPOSE OF this presentation is to report on the implementation of a project work specifically designed to raise young learners’s awareness of the role of intercultural competence and reflect on the uses of English as Lingua Franc...

DOWNLOAD > https://easychair.org/publications/open/1gb | | LINGUISTIC DEVIATIONS from the standard use of English in computer-mediated communication have been described by the literature as distinctive Netspeak features. Using corpus linguistics and register theory, I examine those linguistic deviations in a corpus extracted from the microblogging...