We are happy to be able to announce that Zeltia Blanco-Suárez has returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela on a tenure-track position as Lecturer (‘Ayudante Doctora’) in English, after serving at the University of Cantabria.

It is great to see that talented early-career researchers trained by the ELC teams are finding their way back home. Congratulations!

A new research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams, on Tuesday, 27 October, 5 pm.

Invited speaker: Lucía Loureiro-Porto (University of the Balearic Islands)

Title: “Democratization, prescriptivism and gender-neutrality: the good, the bad and the ugly?” (Click on the title to watch the video recording of the seminar)

Convenor: Ignacio Palacios

Registration is free. Those interested in connecting online, please send an email to Lidia Gómez García (lidiagogar@gmail.com), together with your personal details: name and surname, email and telephone number. A Teams link will be sent a few days before the seminar.

Iván Tamaredo-Meira, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a tenure-track position as Lecturer (‘Ayudante Doctor’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salamanca.

The Department of English at Salamanca, founded in 1952, was the first one established in Spain in the field of English Studies.

Congratulations, Iván!

Positive news keeps coming! Cristina Lastres-López, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a full-time position as Substitute Lecturer in English at the Department of English Language of the University of Seville.

Between October 2016 and September 2020 Cristina held a four-year FPU grant (FPU2015/02519) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Universities. She will publicly defend her PhD thesis, supervised by Teresa Fanego, on Thursday 22nd October, from 10:30 am (the link to the online viva will be circulated in due course).

Congratulations!

The volume Languages and the Internationalisation of Higher Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020; 282 pp., ISBN 1-5275-4667-5), edited by Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez, both members of the LVTC group, has just been published.

It contains a a collection of essays on three key areas in which institutions of HE are working together with governments across Europe: language policy and internationalisation; specific training for the university community; and language testing and accreditation.

Further information and table of contents can be found here.

Congratulations!

The VLCG team has obtained a new research grant funded by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade of the Regional Government of Galicia:

Timeline: 01/01/2020 – 31/12/2022
Grant reference: ED431B 2020/01
PI: Teresa Fanego
Funding awarded: 90.000 euros
Programme: Axudas do Programa de Consolidación e Estruturación de Unidades de Investigación Competitivas – GPC

Congratulations to the VLCG group!

Further information here.

Cristina Blanco-García, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a position as Assistant Lecturer in English (‘Ayudante’) at the University of Extremadura at Cáceres.

Good to see that positive news keeps coming!

Congratulations, Cristina!

Paula Rodríguez-Puente’s research monograph The English phrasal verb, 1650-present. History, stylistic drifts, and lexicalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2019) has received the  prestigious ESSE 2020 Book Award (€1,500) in the category of English Language and Linguistics.

Congratulations!

The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) announced on Thursday that the research project titled Representación y procesamiento del género gramatical: Efectos fonológicos y léxico-semánticos en la congruencia y la concordancia de género (PIs: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Isabel Fraga) has been awarded a three-year grant (funding: 60.500 euros plus a four-year FPI contract).

Reference: grant PID2019-110583GB-I00; Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i y de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad; Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020.

Congratulations to Carlos, Isabel, and to the PCC group as a whole!

Further information here.

The 2019 edition of the SJR (SCOPUS), which was released last Thursday, ranks VIAL – Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics within its quartile 1 (impact factor: 0.303; nº 219 out of 938 journals in the category Linguistics and Language).

VIAL’s Founding Editors were Marta Dahlgren, now retired, and Rosa Alonso Alonso, who for the past year has worked in close collaboration with Ignacio Palacios as Managing Editor.

Congratulations!