Team
Anne Marie Devlin
Dr. Anne Marie Devlin is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include the acquisition of Lx English, Russian and French during Study Abroad; Spatiality and Language Contact; Pragmatics; and Language and Identity. Her research to date has mainly focused on the interplay between learner identity and access to language learning spaces on the development of sociopragmatics. She has published extensively on such perspectives. Anne Marie is currently co-editing a special issue of the Language Learning Journal on Study Abroad. She was the scientific communications manager of the COST Action Study Abroad Research a European Perspective (SAREP) and is currently on the management committee of the COST Action European Network on International Student Mobility (ENIS). She is a co-founder of the Trame research network; and is the convenor of the research cluster Language: cognition, practice, policy and ideology at UCC.
Contact: amdevlin@ucc.ie
Annarita Magliacane
Dr. Annarita Magliacane is a lecturer in TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include the acquisition of English, Pragmatics, Spoken Discourse Analysis, Language Variation, Transnational mobility and Corpus Linguistics. Her research mainly focuses on the use and recognition of pragmatic markers in English as a second language and language contact opportunities during transnational mobility. She has published extensively on such perspectives. Annarita has also edited the Special Issue “Negotiation of L2 Identities in the Age of Transnational Mobility” in the I-LanD Journal and is currently co-editing a special issue on Study Abroad which will be published in the journal Language Learning. She is a member of international research networks: the COST Actions ENIS (European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice) & “Decolonising Development: Research Teaching and Practice”, the Irish English Network, the ITAP (International Association for Teaching Pragmatics) Association and the I-LanD (Identity, Language and Diversity) research centre. She has also co-founded and currently co-chairing the TraMe (Transnational Mobility in Education) research network.
Contact: A.Magliacane@liverpool.ac.uk
Ariadna Sánchez
Dr. Ariadna Sánchez is an assistant professor of Linguistics at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her research focuses on the acquisition of L2 pragmatic competence and of intercultural competence in the study abroad context. As a member of the COST Action on ‘Study Abroad Research in European Perspective’ (SAREP), she explored the effects of student mobility on the acquisition of different pragmatic aspects, and how these may be determined by the degree of acculturation to the new context and by intensity of interaction with L2 speakers. Her recent work has appeared in journals like Journal of Pragmatics, Language Teaching Research, and System, and she is co-editor of the volume Learning Second Language Pragmatics beyond Traditional Contexts (Peter Lang 2018). Moreover, she is a member of the research group “The Role of English in the Internationalization of Spanish Higher Education”, and Vice-President of the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics (ITAP).
Contact: ariadna.sanchez@ucm.es
Clare Wright
Dr. Clare Wright is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Language Teaching at the University of Leeds. Since graduating from Cambridge University, she had over 20 years experience in business communication and then language teaching, before gaining her PhD in SLA at Newcastle University, UK, in 2010. Her current research focuses on the connections between linguistic and cognitive factors in task-based approaches to language education, in order to foster effective communicative abilities and interactional skills in real-world contexts. Clare contributes widely to writing and networking related to SLA and Study Abroad; she was a member of the COST Action Study Abroad Research a European Perspective (SAREP); she founded the UK-based Year Abroad Network and Conference series, hosted in Leeds in 2019, and is currently President of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA). Recent research projects have investigated task effects on L2 Mandarin fluency, successful cultural adaptation among students during Study Abroad in China, and virtual year abroad effects on oral proficiency development in L2 Mandarin.
Contact: C.E.M.Wright@leeds.ac.uk
Clara Cantos Delgado
Clara Cantos Delgado is a predoctoral researcher at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and has won a scholarship (FPU) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.She holds an MA in English Linguistics (2020, First Class Honors) from UCM, and she is in the process of completing an MA in Teachers’ Training from UNED. In 2018, she graduated in English Studies (First Class Honors) at UCM. Since 2018, she has been the Spanish coordinator of “Teletandem”, an online language exchange program between UCM (Spain) and Denison University (USA).Her main areas of interest include socio-pragmatics and intercultural communication. Particularly, she is interested in raising awareness and developing students’ pragmatic competence to mitigate the possible sources of dissonance and pragmatic failure that may take place when students travel abroad.
Contact: clarcant@ucm.es
Emre Güvendir
Dr. Emre Güvendir is associate professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages at Trakya University, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also worked as a visiting scholar during the 2015-2016 academic year. He represented Turkey as an MC member in ‘Study Abroad Research in European Perspective’ (SAREP) COST action for 4 years. In 2020, he was appointed as an MC member of the "Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice" COST action, which will run until November 2024. His research primarily focuses on investigating social, intercultural, and personal factors related to language acquisition in both study abroad and second language learning contexts. His recent academic investigations have addressed the evolving plurilingual and multilingual identities of Erasmus students coming from different European countries.
Contact: emreguvendir@trakya.edu.tr
Judith Borràs
Dr. Judith Borràs is a researcher in the Department of English and Linguistics at Universitat de Lleida, and a teacher at ESNE/UDIT (Madrid). Her main research interests revolve around how learning context can impact the development of a second language, and she is interested in shedding light on those areas that have been less examined within study abroad research. At the moment, she is investigating how different types of mobility programmes influence the English L2 skills of different groups of participants, and also whether international student mobility can enhance students’ intercultural knowledge and openness. She is part of two research groups, one which is funded by the Spanish National government: The global competence of university students: a pilot study in the internationalisation of the curriculum (GLOCIC), and one which is funded by the COST programme in the European Union: European Network on International Student Mobility (ENIS).
Contact: judith.borras@esne.es
Julia Carnine
Julia Carnine Ph.D. is director of the Dickinson en France Study Abroad program in Toulouse, France Academic Director of Center for Global Studies and Engagement and contributing faculty in French and Francophone studies department, Dickinson College (PA, USA). She has 20 years of experience in international education, having served five years as director for the Long Island University’s Global College in Hangzhou, China until coming to France in 2002. Dr. Carnine teaches in intercultural programs at the University of Toulouse, and conducts research on social networks in international student mobility. A current member of LISST- CERS (CNRS-UMR 5193), she was a member of Europe’s COST research group 2015-2020 and since 2010 APUAF (Associations of American University Programs in France).
Contact: carninej@dickinson.edu
Maria Hussain
Maria Hussain is the ‘Faculty International Tutor’ (academic) at Leeds University Business School and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her expertise lies in; applied linguistics, international and transnational education and intercultural communication. Maria was recently appointed to the Great Britain Applied Linguistics (LAGB) Subcommittee for Racial and Social Justice. She is part of the Intercultural Connector newsletter team for the World Council on Intercultural Council (WGCIC), as well being a recently appointed ambassador for the PEaCH project (Erasmus Plus funded) promoting multilingualism in childhood. Furthermore, she is also a SIG co-lead for UKAT on supporting international students through intercultural Personal Tutoring. Maria has taught a wide range of both home and international students in higher education contexts. Currently, her diverse role includes; working with Study Abroad students, making recommendations on provision for international students and furthermore, the embedding of internationalisation opportunity across her faculty. Maria’s research interests include; academic literacies, decoloniality, critical perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home,’ interculturality, critical reflective writing and course design.
Contact: M.Hussain1@leeds.ac.uk
María Victoria Soulé
Dr María Victoria Soulé is a post-doctoral researcher and Spanish language instructor at the Language Centre of Cyprus University of Technology. She completed her BA in Classical Studies at the University of Barcelona, an MA in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, an MPhil in Spanish Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Suma Cum Laude) from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Her current research interests include (a) second language acquisition, (b) plurilingualism, (c) study abroad, and (d) CALL. In the last years she has been participating as a researcher in EU funded research projects: DC4LT, DE-TEL, HERO, VALIANT, and LITHME, as well as international funded projects: PAPIME (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Language Teaching Research Jeon-ra-buk-do (South Korea Department of Education, Science and Technology). Dr Soulé was an MC for the COST action Study Abroad Research in European Perspective: SAREP (2016-2020). Within this Action, she was awarded with a STSM at University Pompeu Fabra. Under Professor Carmen Pérez-Vidal supervision, Dr Soulé explored the development of past tense morphology among advanced learners of Spanish abroad. Within the SAREP COST action, she also participated in the Plurilingual Identity Project led by Professor Rosamond Mitchell from University of Southampton. Dr Soulé is now an MC member representing Cyprus for the COST Action European Network on International Student Mobility (ENIS).
Contact: mariavictoria.soule@cut.ac.cy
Paolo Ruspini
Paolo Ruspini (MA Pol. Sci., PhD, Milan) has been researching international and European migration and integration since 1997 with a comparative approach and by drawing on mixed methods. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Education Science, Roma Tre University since November 2021. He is also Associate Researcher at the Institute of Sociological Research (IRS), Geneva School of Social Science, University of Geneva. He is currently member of the COST European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice (ESIN). Recent publications include “International Student Mobility as Transnationalism” (2021, Routledge, co-author) Migrants Unbound (2019, Transnational Press London, author) Migration and Transnationalism Between Switzerland and Bulgaria (2017, Springer, co-editor).
Contact: paolo.ruspini@uniroma3.it
Robert Mason
Robert Mason is a professor of US history at the University of Edinburgh. He is spending the 2020-21 academic year as a core fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. His publications include Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004) and The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan (2012). He has started a project on the academic experience of history students engaged in international mobility.
Contact: Robert.Mason@ed.ac.uk
Rongrong Guo
Dr Rongrong Guo is Lecturer and coordinator of the MA -Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages programme (MA-TCSOL) at University College Cork. She holds her PhD in second language acquisition from University College Cork, and an MA in Chinese Linguistics and Philology from Shanghai University. She started to teach Chinese as a second/foreign language since 2009. Her research areas are empirical studies in second language acquisition, language assessment, study abroad.
Contact: rguo@ucc.ie
Sònia Mas-Alcolea
Dr. Sònia Mas-Alcolea is a Researcher and Associate Professor in the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Her work, which adopts a (critical) discourse-analytic approach, has focused on study abroad, identity, second language acquisition, cross-cultural communication, interculturality and Internationalisation at Home (IaH). She is a member of the research group Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA) and has participated in two competitive and funded research projects. The first one (2013-2015) studied the impact of an Erasmus stay abroad on the students’ language acquisition, interculturality and their sense of European citizenship. The second project (2021-2023) explores IaH strategies to maximise the benefits of bringing cultural and linguistic heterogeneity to the classroom (in the at-home context) as well as of the introduction of English as a language of instruction.
Contact: sonia.mas@udl.cat
Sonia López-Serrano
Sonia López-Serrano is a researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an English lecturer at Universidad de La Laguna. Her main research interests are the effects of learning contexts on L2 vocabulary and pragmatic development,the language learning potential of L2 writing tasks and written corrective feedback, and computer assisted language learning. Some of her latest publications include a chapter in the book Writing and language learning: Advancing research agendas (John Benjamins) and an article in the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition. She is also the co-editor of the volumen Learning context effects: Study abroad, formal instruction and international immersion classrooms of the EuroSLA Studies series.
Contact: sonia.lopez@ull.edu.es
Zeynep Köylü
Dr. Zeynep Köylü is currently a postdoctoral teaching and research fellow at the University of Basel, Department of English. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology (SLA/IT) from the University of South Florida with her research comparing the traditional Anglophone study abroad with English as a lingua franca study abroad and at home formal instruction for learners of English as a second language (L2) within the ERASMUS mobility program. Having continued to investigate the influence of international mobility on L2 development and intercultural awareness, Dr. Köylü is now an MC member representing Switzerland for the COST Action European Network on International Student Mobility (ENIS) . She also served a completed COST action (SAREP 2016-2020) as a working group member. Her research interests include the dynamic interaction between learner-internal and learner-external variables during study abroad, L2 development, English as a lingua franca, and CLIL.
Contact: zeynep.koylu@unibas.ch
Claire Reid
Dr Claire Reid is Associate Head (Employability & Placements) at the School of Education, Language and Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth. She teaches French language, Translation and Interpreting, as well as having overall responsibility for all employability-related activities and placements (including mobilities) for the School. Claire has been coordinating the Language year abroad and other international mobilities since 2014 and is passionate about developing students’ opportunities through residence abroad. She participates in numerous University and interinstitutional networks to share good practice and has presented several conference papers about student mobilities, in particular on intercultural awareness, the benefits brought by the presence of incoming exchange students, as well as year abroad preparation. Recent publication: How to (not) prepare students for the Year Abroad The Language Scholar, September 2020.
Contact: claire.reid@port.ac.uk
Dr Jiayi Wan
Dr Jiayi Wang is an Associate Professor at De Montfort University, UK. Her research interests include study abroad, pragmatics, intercultural communication, language education, and corpus-based discourse analysis. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Pragmatics in English Language Learning with Cambridge University Press, the co-edited journal special issue “Learning and Teaching Second Language Pragmatics” for the Language Learning Journal (with N. Halenko, 2022), and the article “Culture, context, and concerns about face: Synergistic insights from Pragmatics and Social Psychology” (with H. Spencer-Oatey, 2020). She has supervised over 50 PhD, MA, and BA dissertations. Jiayi holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, where her research focused on professional (official/business) intercultural communication. Prior to her PhD, she was an International Project Manager at the Ministry of Justice, and she also worked as a high-level intercultural coordinator and conference interpreter/translator for a wide range of organisations such as the Supreme Court, BAE Systems, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Fortune magazine.
Contact: jiayi.wang@dmu.ac.uk
Yuyao Xiao
Yuyao Xiao is a second year PhD candidate studying Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland. After obtaining a diploma in Engineering in China, she jumped into Applied Linguistics three years after graduation. Her MA was done at UCC, and her research interest in Sociolinguistics as well as Second Language Acquisition germinated during this period. Under supervision of Dr. Barbara Siller and Dr. Anne Marie Devlin, her current PhD research project is about “Chinese sojourners’ social network construction in English-speaking universities during abroad and its impact on self-perceived English ability”. Moreover, she is a big fan of Ecological Approaches in Applied Linguistics.
Contact: 119222212@umail.ucc.ie