Activities

During the 27th-29th April, the 39th AESLA Conference was held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Our team members Rosana Villares, Alberto Vela, and Marian Velilla presented part of their current research projects. The abstracts of their presentations are linked below. A genre-based analysis of researchers’ scientific dissemination strategies on Twitter. Villares,R. Abstract: Technological advances …

Conference: Participation at 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Read More »

Luzón M.J. (2022).“Coronavirus explainers” for public communication of science: everything the public needs to know. In Musolff, A.,  Breeze, R., Kondo, K. and Vilar-Lluch, S. (eds). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse. Bloomsbury Publishing. 10.5040/9781350232730.ch-006 Abstract Disseminating knowledge to the public and communicating it by using engaging and non-technical language is particularly important in health-related crisis such …

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Predatory journals: A potential threat to the dissemination of validated knowledge in open science. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract Predatory publishing practices have proliferated in the past years by 25% (Oermann et al., 2018) as a result of researchers’ pressure to publish or perish in international journals and, concurrently, the expansion of digital editorial practices and the …

Conference: International Conference on Digital Communication, Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination (INTERGEDI2021), University of Zaragoza, Spain, 9-10 December 2021. Read More »

Velilla-Sánchez, M. A. (2021). Bilingual resources in English-medium instruction lectures: the role lecturer’s L1 is playing in EMI courses. Language Value, 14(2), 45-67. DOI: 10.6035/languagev.6122 Abstract 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 to include in its  …

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El objetivo general de este curso, impartido por la Dra. Carmen Pérez-Llantada,  es dar a conocer a los asistentes distintas estrategias de comunicación escrita que les puedan facilitar la redacción de artículos para su publicación en revistas científicas y la difusión de los artículos en medios digitales. Para más información ir al siguiente enlace: https://elearning.campusiberus.es/

Register choice and patterns of interaction across text varieties. Pérez-Llantada, C. Abstract In the context of Open Science and of the “democratization of science” agenda for reaching broader publics (Bonney et al., 2009; Fecher & Friesike, 2014), scholars are increasingly encouraged to produce new kinds of writing online that target a non-specialist/lay readership. This is …

Conference: Plenary talk at 10th Brno Conference on Linguistic studies in English, Czech Republic, 16-17 September 2021 Read More »

Language standards and style in a trans-scientific genre, BAAL SIG Health and Science Communication. Pérez-Llantada, C. Abstract This paper focuses on the crowdfunding project, a trans-scientific genre that is attracting increasing attention among researchers in the fields of Medicine and Health Sciences. The extant literature conceptualizes this genre as ‘trans-scientific’ (or ‘para-scientific’) because it operates …

Conference: Participation at BAAL 2021 Conference, Newcastle, University of Northumbria, 9-10 September 2021 Read More »

Scholarly communication and Twitter: Multilingual practices of Spanish research groupsference. María José Luzón Abstract Individual scholars as well as research groups are increasingly using Twitter as a tool for self-promotion, information sharing, networking and public outreach (Mahrt, Weller and Peters, 2014; Veletsianos, 2012). Multilingual scholars, in particular, use their Twitter accounts to reach diverse local …

Conference: Participation at the 19th International Conference of AELFE (Vilanova i la Geltrú), 7-9 July 2021 Read More »

On 9th July, some of our team members won the 8th Enrique Alcaraz Research Award at the AELFE-TAPP 2021 Conference. María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada won the best published work with their book Science communication on the Internet (2019), and Rosana Villares won the best unpublished PhD Thesis with her work entitled The convergence …

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Understanding the multimodal practices of research groups when communicating in Twitter. Luzón, María José Abstract Twitter is being increasingly used in academia as a tool for self-promotion, information sharing, networking and public outreach (Mahrt, Weller and Peters, 2014; Veletsianos, 2012). The use of Twitter enables scholars to select and combine a variety of semiotic resources …

Conference: Participation at LSPPC6, HONG KONG, 3-5 June 2021 Read More »

Studying the rhetorical structure of crowdfunding discourse: A move-step analysis of project videos. Vivas Peraza, Ana Cristina Abstract Crowdfunding (CF) is a strategy for scientists and entrepreneurs of any kind to collect funds for their projects by requesting online donations to the public. As an alternative to the highly competitive traditional institutional funding, this revolutionary …

Conference: Participation at Seminar in English Studies ( SEING 2021), 27-28 May 2021 Read More »

Metadiscourse and predatory scholarly journals: how publishers interact with prospective article authors. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract Predatory practices have proliferated in the last decade as a part of the pressure-to publish explosion of scholarly publishing (Fazel & Hartse, 2020). These practices are often associated with on-line Open Access (OA) publishing; however, because the OA model in …

Conference: Participation at 3rd Metadiscourse Across Genres (MAG2021). Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). 27-28 May 2021 Read More »

Uncovering the discourse of open access predatory journals. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract The pressure-to publish trend in academia has contributed to the proliferation and expansion of journals from predatory publishers (Fazel & Hartse, 2020; Power, 2018). Many of these publishers usually email scholars promising short peer review turnarounds, high acceptance rates and, therefore, fast publication (Bocanegra-Valle, …

Conference: Participation at ENTRETEXTOS, ALICANTE, 13-14 May 2021 Read More »