Teacher’s and researcher’s perspectives on foreign language teaching: Interview with Dr Begoña Bellés-Fortuño

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Abstract

Begoña Bellés-Fortuño is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI). She is currently the Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA) at Universitat Jaume I. She has also occupied a head position in the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society. She was a Morley Scholar in the English Language Institute (ELI) at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) in 2007, where she worked together with the MICASE team. Her research interests are focused on Discourse Analysis, and more concretely, academic discourse both written and spoken, as well as on medical discourse and clinical setting communication encounters. She has co-edited the volume Teaching Language and Content in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms CLIL and EMI Approaches (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Recent publications include Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leaflets​ (2018) or Popular Science Articles vs Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education (2016).

Keywords

Discourse analysis, Instruction, Research, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Internationalisation

Author Biographies

Lucía Bellés-Calvera, Universitat de València

Lucía Bellés-Calvera és doctora per la Universitat Jaume I en Llengües modernes aplicades, literatura i traducció. Actualment, és professora ajudant doctora al departament de Filologia anglesa i alemanya de la Universitat de València, on forma part de l'institut de recerca IULMA i del grup de recerca GENTEXT. La seua investigació gira al voltant de l’anàlisi del discurs, l’aplicació de recursos tecnològics a l’aula i l’enfocament CLIL.

Ana Isabel Martínez-Hernández, Universitat Jaume I

Ana-Isabel Martínez-Hernández és doctora en Llengües aplicades, literatura i traducció per la Universitat Jaume I on, ara per ara, és docent de llengua anglesa per a futurs traductors i intèrprets. Així mateix, forma part del grup de recerca GENTT i de l’institut de recerca IULMA. La seua recerca se centra en les TIC i les necessitats especials a l’aula d’anglés com a llengua estrangera.

Published

2023-10-25

How to Cite

Bellés-Calvera, L., & Martínez-Hernández, A. I. (2023). Teacher’s and researcher’s perspectives on foreign language teaching: Interview with Dr Begoña Bellés-Fortuño. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 16(3), e1145. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.1145

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