10th Spring Research Conference

PILAR MUR DUEÑAS is a senior lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the Faculty of Education at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Her research focuses on the analysis of multilingual scholars' discursive practices in English. She has explored scholars' publication practices looking into academic genres from an intercultural perspective. More recent research focuses on the analysis of scholars' digital scholarly practices when disseminating research.

Currently, she co-coordinates the national project "Processes of recontextualisation in the transfer of knowledge: A pragmatic, linguistic and multimodal study of digital scientific discourse for dissemination purposes (SciDis)" (PID2021-122303NB-100). Dr. Mur Dueñas is an active member of the research group CIRES (Intercultural communication and societal challenges), financed by the Government of Aragon and the EU, of the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) and of the Centro de Innovación, Formación e Investigación en Ciencias de la Educación (CIFICE) at Universidad de Zaragoza.

She is interested in English teacher training at all educational levels and coordinates the Expert Advisory Working Group of the Vice-rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation for teaching in English at Universidad de Zaragoza, in charge of designing, evaluating and implementing the CLIC@unizar programme (Content Language Integrated Competences at Universidad de Zaragoza), a training itinerary which includes several courses for UNIZAR staff who are teaching or would like to teach their classes in English. 

FRANCISCO LORENZO is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). His areas of interest are L2 acquisition, bilingualism, sociology of language and European language policy. He is the author of several monographs on Spanish applied linguistics; “Motivation and Second Languages” (2004), “Bilingual Education: content and language integration” (2011) and “L2 Spanish Academic Language” (2020) (co-author). His latest book is Bilingual Academic Language: Concepts and Case Studies (Lorenzo and Granados, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He received the Best Research Article Award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics for a paper on bilingualism and social justice (Lorenzo, Granados & Rico, 2020) in the journal Applied Linguistics. He has the privilege of leading Working Group 2 of the European Commission’s CLILNETLE network on disciplinary literacies: https://www.clilnetle.eu/.