Languages and literature

The CRILLS carries out research and educational activities in the field of foreign languages, cultures, and literatures, particularly in the areas of (English and French):

- lexicology and lexicography;

- terminology and terminography;

- discourse analysis;

- corpus linguistics and stylistics;

- literary criticism and translation;

- cross-cultural and genre studies;

- new digital literacies, webwriting, and their multimodal/media dimension.

Descriptive grammar of Spanish
Linguistic Ideas of Spanish
Linguistic Ideologies and Attitudes in the Spanish Language of Spain and America

- CLIL at university/Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE)/English as a Medium of instruction (EMI).
- Mobile-assisted and computer-assisted foreign language learning (MALL and CALL).
- English as a lingua franca (EFL), English as an international language (EIL), English for specific purposes (ESP) and English for academic purposes (EAP).
- English in the international context.
- The use of technology for second language teaching and assessment.
- Innovative teaching methodologies and second language testing tools.

Main research interests:

• nature of language behaviour in various social situations ;

• relationship between language changes and social changes, between language varieties and social groups;

•  types of linguistic behaviour in various communicative situations  depending on age, gender, social roles, profession, etc .;

• communication pragmatics;

• sociolinguistic variables in didactics.

The group's work is focused on multiple, interdisciplinary approaches to investigation of iconotexts - predominantly picturebooks.