Dr. Emma Dafouz Milne (coordinator)

Associate professor in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. In the last years she has researched on CLIL in secondary and tertiary settings, with special emphasis on teacher discourse. She has published extensively in the area with articles in the Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (2007), the CLIL International Research Journal (2008) and has recently co-edited the volume entitled CLIL across Educational Levels: Experiences from Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Contexts (2009) with Richmond Publishing. Since 2006 she directs the CLUE Project (Content and Language in University Education), financed by the Community of Madrid and the Universidad Complutense on the impact of CLIL in higher education. She also advises regional governments on bilingual teacher education. ​

Dr. Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Associate professor of Pragmatics and English at the Complutense University of Madrid, having obtained her PhD in English Linguistics in 2001. Her fields of interest are mainly pragmatics and intercultural pragmatics; more specifically, speech act theory and verbal (im)politeness in computer-mediated communication. Her most recent publications include articles published in Computer Assisted Language Learning (2017); the Journal of Politeness Research (2015), or the Journal of Pragmatics (2013 and 2012). She also acts as a reviewer for different journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics, GIST, Sage Open, Modern Languages Journal or Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje. Besides her research and teaching, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo has been the academic secretary of the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University from October 2014 to November 2017.

Dr. Marciano Escutia López

Lecturer at the the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research work has centered around language acquisition: both his master thesis at the University of Illinois ("Aspects of the acquisition of Spanish reflexive pronouns by Engish speaking students") as well as his doctoral thesis at Universidad Complutense ("First steps in the acquisition of Spanish clitics by English speaking adults") are experimental theses about specific areas of Applied Linguistics.

Dr. María Ángeles Martínez Martínez

Lecturer at the the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her research is in the field of cognitive stylistics and cognitive narratology, and has a particular interest in issues to identity construction and intercultural communication. Her research has been published in journals such as Narrative (2014) and Poetics Today (2002), as well as in collective volumes. She currently coordinates the Degree in English Studies at this University.

Dr. Begoña Núñez Perucha

Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her research has focused on two primary areas: i) critical discourse studies, particularly addressing the relation between discourse, cognition and the sociocultural/ideological context (Núñez Perucha 2010, 2011) as well as issues of identity construction (Núñez Perucha, 2009; Hidalgo, Kraljevic y Núñez Perucha, 2013); and, ii) second language acquisition research from a discursive perspective, especially focusing on the use of genre and discourse based approaches for teaching academic writing (Núñez Perucha, 2016) and on the analysis of lecturing discourse in an EMI context (Dafouz Milne y Núñez Perucha 2009, 2010). She has participated in numerous national and international competitive funded projects and has served as external reviewer for several scientific journals. Among the awards she has received are the Graduate Student of Highest Distinction Award, the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, and the Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (6th Edition).

Dr. Elena Orduna Nocito

Lecturer in the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain. She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics. Her research is devoted to educational linguistics, more precisely to teaching English as a second language, the implementation of bilingual programmes within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), University Language Policy issues, and on the incorporation of EMI in tertiary education in Spain. She has participated in research projects related to the field of second language teaching and bilingualism: AECLIL (Assessment and evaluation in CLIL), VESPA (Varieties of English for Specific Academic Purposes) y  EDICC (European Diploma for Intercultural Competence). Most of her publications are the result of this research and have been published in significant journals in the field such as Journal of Language Learning in Higher Education, Mouton de Gruyter and Peter Lang. At a professional level, from 2008 to 2017, she belonged to the executive committee of ACLES (Asociación Española de Centros de Lenguas de Enseñanza Superior) and she also held the position of Language Policy Director at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria from 2014-2018. ​

Dr. Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández

Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), and she holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (2017) from Jaume I University. Her research interests include second language pragmatics and intercultural competence, with a special focus on the study abroad context and English-medium instruction (EMI). Her publications include articles in international journals (Journal of Pragmatics 2018, System 2018, English Language Teaching 2019) and in Spanish ones (ATLANTIS 2017, Porta Linguarum 2018), chapters in collective volumes (EUROSLA Series 2018; Peter Lang 2018; Routledge 2020), and she is the co-editor of the volume Learning Second Language Pragmatics beyond Traditional Contexts (Peter Lang 2018).

Dr. Davinia Sánchez García
Lecturer at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and lecturer of English Linguistics at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA). She obtained her PhD with honors in 2016 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where she is currently doing research related to English-medium instruction (EMI). Her research interests include EMI, CLIL, classroom discourse and second language acquisition. Currently she is a research member of the European Erasmus+ project ‘Educational Quality at Universities for Inclusive International Programmes’ (EQUiiP) and the CLUE project.

Andrea Martínez Celis

Visiting Professor in the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting and Modern Languages at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos since 2018. She is also a predoctoral researcher in English Linguistics and an Honorific Collaborator in the Department of English Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 2017.  She holds a BA degree in English Studies and a Master's degree in English Linguistics from the same university. In her Bachelor studies, during her stay at University of Sussex, Brighton, she became interested in the topic of forensic linguistics and, more specifically, on the analysis of suicide letters carrying out a linguistic analysis on Virginia Woolf´s suicide letters, which has been recently published. During her Master’s studies, switching to a new field of research, she focused on the role of pragmatics in English teaching and learning. Currently, following her works in this field, she is doing a PhD about the role of intercultural pragmatics in the internationalization of university.

Irene Soriano Flórez

PhD student in English Linguistics at Complutense University in Madrid. She holds a MA with Distinction in Applied Linguistics from University College London (UCL). She graduated in the BA in English Studies at Complutense University in Madrid (Premio Extraordinario de Grado, 2017). She collaborated as an intern in the Linguistics Department of the Faculty of Philology at Complutense University (2017) where she is an Intern ad honorem since July 2017.
​Her main academic interest focuses on processes of internationalisation within higher education, particularly that within Complutense University.

Clara Cantos Delgado

MA student in English Linguistics: New Applications and International communication at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She also holds a MA in Secondary School Training, and a BA degree in English Studies from UCM. She has recieved the Excellence Grant for achieving excellent academic results  (2017, 2018); and a Collaboration Scholarship (2018). Currently, she is an Intern ad honorem in the Department of English Studies: Linguistics and Literature at the UCM. Her fields of interest include pragmatics and second language acquisition, among others.