Emma Dafouz Milne

Biography

"After graduating at UCM, I obtained a grant from Stevenson Foundation and British Council to complete a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh University . From a research perspective , my work focuses on language and education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), classroom discourse, English-medium instruction (EMI) and language policies in higher education. As a member of the Spanish Rector's Conference (CRUE), within the sub-group of Internationalisation, I have co-authored the framework document for Language Policies and the Internationalization of Spanish Universities . My research publications include over 50 articles in national and international journals (such as Applied Linguistics , English for Specific Purposes , Journal of Pragmatics , International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education , Modern Language Journal or Language and Education ) and book chapters in Benjamins, Peter Lang, Multilingual Matters, Rodopi or Richmond-Santillana. At present, I coordinate (principal investigator) an interdisciplinary research group ( INTER-LICA ) with colleagues from the School of Business and Economics at UCM, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and aUCM research group since 2006. I also participate in the international EQUIIP Project, which seeks to develop actions to support continuing professional development of educators in international settings (see other projects below). I have acted as reviewer for research funding institutions (eg External expert for the evaluation of research projects (ANEP, Spain), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (January 2017) and Santander-UCM Research Projects (2016)) and a member of the AESLA (Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics) scientific committee that grants its yearly research award (2013-15). I belong to the editorial board of several academic journals ( Classroom Discourse , ELIA (Applied Linguistics Studies) and European-American Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages and also external reviewer for more than 20 national and international journals (egApplied Linguistics , Language Policy , English for Academic Purposes , ESP , System , Higher Education , Studies in Higher Education , RESLA , among others). The keynote speaker , I have been invited to numerous universities and colleges abroad (Luxembourgh, Porto, Lithuania, Bordeaux, Greece, Middlebury College, Instituto Cervantes Berlin, etc.) and in Spain to Murcia, Jaume I, Pablo de Olavide, Francisco de Vitoria, Vic, Córdoba, Autónoma de Madrid, etc. At the UCM I was an academic coordinator of the Master's in English Linguistics from 2010-12. Since 1998 I teach courses in Applied Linguistics, CLIL, ELT Methodology and Discourse Analysis at graduate and postgraduate level and also supervise Master-Level and Doctoral students on topics related to CLIL, second / foreign language teacher education, classroom discourse and English-medium instruction . I am also interested in projects on Language Policies and Teacher Education."

Research Interest

My work has relevance to higher education institutions seeking to better understand the growing internationalization of their contexts from a language policy perspective and their teaching and learning practices.