Rosana VILLARES

rvillares@unizar.es

I am an assistant professor at the University of Zaragoza and a member of the project GENCI 2.0 – Digital Genres and Open Science and the BIFI institute (digital science group). Currently, my main research interests are digital science communication, especially the dissemination of scientific knowledge on social media platforms, and how researchers use language and other semiotic resources to communicate to expert and non-expert audiences. I have also carried out research on internationalisation, language policy, and teaching English as a Foreign Language. You can follow my updates on my website.

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Publications

  • Villares, R. (Forthcoming, 2024). La internacionalización de la investigación: retos e identidades desde la perspectiva de los investigadores. In E. Dafouz (ed.), La internacionalización del sistema universitario español en perspectiva. Editorial Complutense. (in press)
  • Villares, R. (2024). Twitter conference discussion sessions: how and why researchers engage in online discussions. RICL Research in Corpus Linguistics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.01.05
  • Villares, R. (2023). Exploring rhetorical strategies of stance and engagement in Twitter conference presentations. ESP Today, 11(2), 280-301. https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2023.11.2.5 
  • Villares, R. (2023). Twitter conference presentations: a rhetorical and semiotic analysis of an emerging digital genre. ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, 22, 125-167. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/elia.2022.i22.05 
  • Villares, R., & Carciu, O.M. (2023). Technology-Mediated Tasks for Formative Assessment in an e-Portfolio Environment. In S.W. Chong & H. Reinders (eds.), Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment (pp. 219-236). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18950-0_13
  • Villares, R. (2022). Do top-down and bottom-up agents agree on internationalisation? A mixed methods study of Spanish universities. Language Value, 15(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.6035/languagev.6845
  • Villares, R. (2022). Book review of Science Communication on the Internet by M.J. Luzón & C. Pérez-Llantada, John Benjamins, 2019.  Miscelanea: A journal of american and english studies, 66, 207-211. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20227165
  • Carciu, O-M., & Villares, R. (2022). Innovation linked with SDGs: Citizen Science projects to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 1223-1230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd22.2022.14408
  • Villares, R. (2021). EMI, international visibility and competitiveness: A corpus-assisted discourse study of Spanish higher education internationalisation plans. European Journal of Language Policy, 13(2), 201-222. https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2021.12.
  • Villares, R. (2021). Engaging Internationally in Academia: How Personal Experience Shapes Academic Literacy Development. In Muresan, L.-M., & Orna-Montesinos, C. (eds.), Academic Literacy Development: Perspectives on multilingual scholars’ approaches to writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham: pp. 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62877-2_13
  • Villares, R. (2020). Book review of Bocanegra-Valle, A. (Ed.). (2020). Applied Linguistics and Knowledge Transfer. Employability, Internationalisation and Social Challenges. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3719-9 (324 pages). RAEL Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, 19(2), 145-149. Retrieved from http://www.aesla.org.es/ojs/index.php/RAEL/article/view/445
  • Villares, R. (2020). Book review of The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education. Language Policy and Internationalisation in Catalonia by Josep Soler and Lídia Gallego-Balsà. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Miscelánea, 61, 137-143. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205145
  • Villares, R. (2020). The challenges and opportunities of multilingual academia: Spanish scholars’ language choice in research and teaching practices. Synergy, 16(2), 131-152. Retrieved from http://www.synergy.ase.ro/issues/2020-vol16-no-2/2%20Rosana%20Vilares.pdf
  • Villares Maldonado, R. (2019). The convergence between internationalisation and language policy in higher education: a discursive analysis of language implications for internationally engaged universities. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Zaragoza, Spain. ISNN: 2254-7606. Retrieved from https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89284#
  • Villares, R. (2019). The role of language policy documents in the internationalisation of multilingual higher education: an exploratory corpus-based study. Languages, 4(56), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030056
  • Villares, R. (2017). A Corpus-based Analysis of Non-Standard English Features in the Microblogging Platform Tumblr. EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics, vol. 2, 295–303. ISSN: 2398-5283. https://doi.org/10.29007/gln9
  • Villares Maldonado, R. (2017). Project Work as a Tool to Develop Intercultural Competence from an ELF Perspective in Secondary Education. In G. Nieto Caballero (ed.), Nuevas aportaciones al estudio y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras (pp. 107-122). Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura servicios de publicaciones. ISBN: 978-84-608-9678-4. Retrieved from http://dehesa.unex.es/handle/10662/5263

Presentations

  • Villares, R. (2024). Engaging in socially responsible research: exploring scientists’ perceived value of online public communication of science. 22nd AELFE Conference, 6-7 September, 2024, Budapest, Hungary. https://zenodo.org/records/13856438
  • Carciu, O-M, & Villares, R. (2024). Recontextualizing the RA abstract for a diversified audience: A case study of writing lay summaries. 45th GERAS International Conference,  21-23 March 2024, Winterhur, Switzerland.
  • Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O-M. & Villares, R. (2024). Digital language and communication training for EU scientists. XII National BIFI Conference, 17-19 January 2024, Zaragoza, Spain. Poster presentation.
  • Carciu, O-M. & Villares, R. (2024). Digital language and communication competences for scientists’ professional development. XVI Jornadas de Innovación Docente e Investigación Educativa, 18-19 January, 2024, Zaragoza, Spain. Poster presentation.
  • Vela-Tafalla, M. A. & Villares, R. (2023). Researchers’ skills in the digital era: insights from the GENCI 2.0. and DILAN projects. The 11th International Conference Synergies in Communication, 26-27 October 2021,  Bucharest, Romania / online event. Invited roundtable.
  • Villares, R. (2023). “Thank you so so much, this is great and your data are so fascinating! :)”: interaction in academic Twitter discussions. 40th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). 26th-28th April 2023. Mérida, Spain.
  • Villares, R. (2023). Communicating Science in Twitter conference presentations. XI National BIFI conference. 25-27 January 2023, Zaragoza, Spain.
  • Villares, R. (2022). Invited session: Institutional language policies: aims, approaches and challenges.  7th ICLHE Conference. 18-21 October 2022, Maastricht, Netherlands. Conference presentation.
  • Villares, R. (2022). An exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of Twitter conference presentations. 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC2022). 28-29 September 2022, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Conference presentation.
  • Carciu, O-M., & Villares, R. (2022). Innovation linked with SDGs: Citizen Science projects to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 1223-1230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd22.2022.14408. Conference proceedings.
  • Villares, R. (2022). A genre-based analysis of researchers’ dissemination strategies on Twitter. 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), 27-29 April 2022, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Conference presentation.
  • Villares, R. (2022). From EMI to ICLHE: Coordinating English language competence development in a Business Degree. 7th Spring Research Seminar, 1 April 2022, Barcelona, Spain.  Poster presentation. https://zenodo.org/record/6390967
  • Villares, R. (2021). Changing scholarly practices: The case of the Twitter conference “Linguistweets”. The 9th International Conference Synergies in Communication, 28-29 October 2021, Bucharest, Romania. Conference presentation.
  • Villares, R. (2021). Is English really the key language of institutional internationalisation processes? A case study of Spanish-based multilingual campuses. World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA), 15-20 August 2021, Groningen, The Netherlands. Conference presentation.
  • Villares, R. (2021). Postgraduate roundtable: PhDs’ experiences. III seminar in English Studies (SEING), 27-28 May 2021, Zaragoza, Spain. Invited talk. https://view.genial.ly/60a51ec8341bab0d64e7d78a/presentation-presentacion-basica
  • Villares, R. (2020). Corpus linguistics tools for the creation of linguistic resources that support the internationalisation of tertiary education. 46th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies, 3-4 October 2020, Tokyo, Japan. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4064192
  • Villares, R. (2020). La carrera investigadora, política lingüística y otras cuestiones, 25 September 2020, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. Invited talk.
  • Villares, R. (2019). Cuando dos metodologías son mejor que una. Seminario internacional Psylex V: de los datos empíricos a la teoría del lenguaje, 24-25 October 2019, Zaragoza, Spain. Poster presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3751851
  • Villares, R. (2019). The role of languages in the internationalisation of higher education. I seminar in English Studies (SEING), 10 May 2019, Zaragoza, Spain. Conference presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3751873
  • Villares, R. (2019). A critical discourse analysis of language policy documents in the multilingual university context. 37th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), 27-29 March 2019, Valladolid, Spain. Conference presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3833877
  • Villares, R. (2018). Internationalization strategies in Spanish universities: a corpus-driven analysis of institutional documents. XVII International AELFE Conference, 28-29 June 2018, Madrid, Spain. Conference presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3833860
  • Villares, R. (2017). A cross-disciplinary study of scholars’ multilingual research-oriented literacies. 9th AILA- European Junior Researcher Meeting, 6-8 September 2017, Vienna, Austria. Conference presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3784511
  • Villares, R. (2017). ’Going international’ in Higher Education: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Strategic Plans in a Spanish University. Discourse, Knowledge and Practice in Society, 7-8 July 2017, Bucharest, Romania. Conference presentation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3784493

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