HUM-1040 An Interdisciplinary Approach to English Studies

Coordinator: María Luisa Pérez Cañado (mlperez [arroba] ujaen [punto] es)

The research group HUM-1040 INTAPES (An Interdisciplinary Approach to English Studies) was created in 2020 and brings together ten specialists in English Philology, all of them PhDs, from the Universities of Jaén, Sevilla, Málaga, and Córdoba. They have an ample trajectory of over 10 years of continued and uninterrupted collaboration in competitive governmentally-funded research projects, top-tier publications, and international conferences and seminars.

In this sense, the members’ most notable research activities include publications in high-impact journals and with prestigious publishing houses, plenaries or papers in international conferences and seminars, supervision of Masters’ Dissertations and Doctoral Theses, organization of international conferences, or participation in editorial committees of specialized journals. They have also spearheaded or participated, uninterruptedly from 2006 to 2023, in nine competitive research projects at all levels (local, regional, national, and European) funded by the Junta de Andalucía, the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, the Ministerio de Educación, the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the European Union. In fact, INTAPES is currently the only research group in Spain to have been granted four competitive research projects simultaneously at the local, regional, national, and international levels (cf. https://www.diariojaen.es/jaen/cuatro-proyectos-de-i-d-para-la-educacion-bilingue-IG6844695 and some of the projects’ websites as an instance: www.monclil.com and www.adibeproject.com). It is also the first research group to have been granted a European KA201 project as coordinator in the history of the University of Jaén to date (cf. https://diariodigital.ujaen.es/investigacion-y-transferencia/la-universidad-de-jaen-coordinara-un-proyecto-de-investigacion).

The chief research lines of the group correspond to the three broad areas of investigation in English Philology: applied linguistics, English literature, and English linguistics. More specifically, they include:

  • Analysis and study of literatures in the English language
  • Attention to diversity in the teaching of languages
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Design and research instruments in the teaching of English
  • Didactics of English language and literature
  • English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)
  • English language teaching methodology: Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate, and University
  • English synchronic descriptive linguistics
  • Interdisciplinariety and cross-curricular issues in the English classroom
  • Linguistics applied to the teaching of English
  • New technologies applied to the teaching of English

Spanish website: http://bit.ly/30AsFBm