I am a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Linguistics, U. Murcia, and former Lecturer in Research in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. My main research interests are the use of corpus linguistics methods in applied linguistics, corpora and digital resources in language education, learner language variation, and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. I was the Overall Coordinator of the MEd Research Methods Strand at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (2016-2019).
I am Co-Editor in Chief of CUP ReCALL journal (4.6 IF 2023; ranked 5th in Linguistics) and corpus linguistics strand coordinator for AELFE and the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2021-2022). I’m a member of the Applied Linguistics Press (ALP) Advisory Board, the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Advisory Board, a member of the Editorial Board of Digital Applied Linguistics (DAL) (Castletown), Digital Studies in Language and Literature, member of the Advisory Board of Artificial Intelligence in Language Education (AILE), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research (JCLR). I’m also a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Colección Lingüística” of the Universidad de Jaén (UJA) Editorial.
My main research interests are quantitative research of register variation, the compilation and use of language corpora and the use of thechnology in the field of applied linguistics. I have been project coordinator of a MINERVA initiative funded by the European Commission SACODEYL; coordinator in Spain of Corpora for Content & Language Integrated Learning, a LLP K2 Transversal programme, responsible for the Spanish EFL component of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (UCL) and research member of the The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage (TUFS, Japan). I am currently Co-Editor in Chief of ReCALL.
I’m currently PI of Broadening the scope of Data-driven learning (BsDDL). Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Spain. Proyectos de generación de conocimiento 2023 and PI of Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens’ identity and transnational discourses. ERASMUS+ European Commission Project id: ERASMUS+ 2022-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000086521
My most recent books are Data-driven Learning in and out of the Language Classroom,Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Prof Alex Boulton and Corpus Linguistics for education. A guide for research in the Routledge Corpus Linguistics series. I am currently PI of the ERASMUS+ project “Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens’ identity and transnational discourses” (2023-2025) funded by the European Commission and PI in the Spanish Research Agency -funded project Broadening the scope of Data-driven learning: a multi-site & multi-data approach.
Some of my publications include the co-edition of Software-aided analysis of language, with Mike Scott and research papers on JCR-indexed journals such as ReCALL, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, System, Language, Learning and Technology or CALL, all of them dealing with the interplay of language corpora, language analysis and language education. In 2009 and 2010, I was a Research Fellow with the English Department in Northern Arizona University, developing research with Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen. Pascual Pérez-Paredes was the Principal Investigator (PI) for Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering at UMU. My book Researching Specialized Languages, co-edited with V. Bhatia and P. Sánchez, John Benjamins , was awarded the “Enrique Alcaraz” research award by the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes in 2013. I served as the Chair of the Corpus CALL SIG at Eurocall.In early 2011, I was appointed Campus Mare Nostrum Coordinator for the University of Murcia. From February 2012 up to April 2014, I served as the General Coordinator of Campus Mare Nostrum. Campus Mare Nostrum is part of the Spanish Excellence Programme, a strategy that seeks to to boost research and quality teaching in Spanish Universities. Before my resignation, the program had obtained an A from the International Committee.
On a more personal note, I am an undergradute computer scientist and passionate for digital culture and computers.
Some pics: AELFE 2008, (1 and 2) La Manga del Mar Menor, with keynote speakers Douglas Biber, Gillian Lazar and John Flowerdew and friends Purificación Sánchez and Jose Mª Alcaraz, at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at TUFS, Japan, Teaching and Language Corpora 2008, and another set, ISLA, Lisbon, Spoken Learner Corpus Colloquium, Internartional Seminar of Corpus Linguistics, Granada, 2008, Louvain-la-Neuve, 24-25 January 2008, Corpus Linguistics Confrence 2007, University of Birmingham, ICAME 2001.
Plenary speaker AESLA 2011 Conference (University of Salamanca):
At the Apple Store in San Francisco, CA, one of my favorite places:
Around 2005, in a coordinators’ meeting in Brussels:
