Research fellow (FPU*) at the Department of English and German Philology, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
My current interests are the role and status of English in the domain of academic communication. I am interested in the analysis of academic spoken genres (both established and emerging) for research communication purposes. In my PhD, I specifically look at genres both as texts and processes and my research seeks to describe phonological features of English as a Lingua Franca that characterise cross-cultural communication among native and nonnative English speakers in academic settings. Connected research interests are English phonetics and phonology, pronunciation teaching methodology and corpus linguistics.
- Lecturer in English Phonetics and Phonology at Universidad de Zaragoza.
- Twitter @mavelata
Projects
- "Ecología de géneros y ecologías de lenguas: análisis de las dinámicas de la comunicación científica local, transnacional e internacional" (2016-2019) . Project code: FFI2015- 68638-R. Funding institution: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Leading researcher: Dr. María Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría.
Conference presentations
- Vela-Tafalla, M. A. (2018). “The (un)teachability of pronunciation: A critical approach to present-day English pronunciation teaching methodologies in the EFL classroom.” 36th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Universidad de Cádiz (Spain), 19-21 April 2018.
- Vela-Tafalla, M.A. (2018). "The Occupations Post: A Learning Landscape Proposal for English as a Foreign Language in Secondary Education." Congreso Internacional Multidisciplinar de Investigación Educativa (CIMIE) 2018 de la Asociación Multidisciplinar de Investigación Educativa (AMIE). Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), 5-6 June 2018.
- Vela-Tafalla, M. A. (2018). “Should I(t) Be Personal? Variation in the use of personal pronouns in novice and expert academic writing practices.” 1st Literacy Summit of the European Literacy Network (ELN). Universidade do Porto (Portugal), 1-3 November 2018.
Others
- PIIDUZ_17_393: Desarrollo y aplicación de instrumentos de autoevaluación y reflexión sobre el proceso de aprendizaje de las competencias de comunicación oral y escrita en lengua inglesa para “Inglés Académico” (Doctorado). Coordinador: Don Ignacio Guillén Galve.
- PIIDUZ_17_170: La competencia de comunicación intercultural en la formación de egresados: Un estudio comparativo en varios grados de la UZ. Coordinadora: Doña Concepción Orna Montesinos.
- PIIDUZ_17_307: Diseño de itinerarios de aprendizaje personalizado en Moodle para el desarrollo de competencias genéricas y comunicación oral en lengua inglesa. Coordinadora: Doña Oana Maria Carciu.