Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez

Universitat Jaume I

Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez is a senior lecturer and researcher at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain), where she has coordinated the Group for Research on Academic and Professional English (GRAPE) for the last 20 years. She has authored articles, books and chapters and co-edited several books internationally published on multimodal discourse analysis and on ESP and CLIL in higher education. Among the latter, two need to be emphasized. ESP in Higher Education. Integrating language and content was co-edited with Christine Räisanen and published by John Benjamins in 2008, and CLIL in Higher Education. Towards a multilingual language policy, authored by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and published by Multilingual Matters in 2013.

Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido

Universitat Jaume I

Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, PhD, member of GRAPE (Group of Research in Academic and Professional English), is a senior lecturer and researcher at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). His main research fields are English for professional and academic purposes, especially English for Business Communication and Academic English. Additionally, he has been working on the field of CLIL / ICLHE for over 10 years. He has organized several seminars and conferences on the topic at a local level. He has also collaborated with the training center for primary and secondary teachers participating in several training courses as well as collaborating as an examiner in the official regional exams to obtain the certificate to teach in English. Since 2013, he has also been involved as part of the teaching staff in the course organized at Universitat Jaume I to obtain the certificate to teach content subjects in English at primary and secondary education levels.

Noelia Ruiz-Madrid

Universitat Jaume I

Noelia Ruiz-Madrid, Phd, member of GRAPE, is a senior lecturer and researcher at Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). Her research interests are related to multimodal discourse analysis, genre and ICT. Additionally, she has been working on the field of CLIL/ICHLE for over 8 years. She has co-organized several seminars and conferences on the topic at UJI. She has been the academic responsible for the postgraduate CLIL course (24 ECTS) for infant, primary and secondary education offered in UJI for the last 4 years. She also coordinates the SPIEDA seminar (a seminar for ICLHE reflection and research), in which more than 20 university lectures from different disciplines (linguistic and non linguistic) work and reflect together on the different aspects related to ICLHE at UJI. During the course 16/17 this seminar was awarded with the maximum UJI distinction concerning innovation in teaching and in teacher training at UJI. Her more recent publications have appeared in Ibérica, Routledge and Multimodal Communication and she has participated as a presenter in different conferences on multilingualism and language policies.

Juan C. Palmer-Silveira

Universitat Jaume I

Juan C. Palmer-Silveira, PhD in Linguistics, is a Senior Lecturer at Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain). He teaches English language and English for Business Communication at different levels. He is the author of several books and articles published internationally, having co-edited Genre Studies in English for Academic Purposes (1998, UJI), and Intercultural and International Business Communication (2006, Peter Lang), among others. His main research interests are in the fieds of academic and professional English, as well as in Business Communication. He is also a funding member of the GRAPE research group and has supervised several PhD dissertations on the use of English in business contexts.

Nuria Edo-Marzá

Universitat Jaume I

Nuria Edo-Marzá is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, where she also obtained her European PhD in English Philology. She is member of the GRAPE (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English) and the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her main research areas comprehend specialised languages (mainly those of health, science and technology and tourism), corpus linguistics, specialised lexicography and academic English. She is the author of The Specialised Lexicographical Approach: A Step Further in Dictionary-Making (2009) and has also published several papers in international journals, like Ibérica (2009),Lingüística (2012) or Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística (2016).

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques

Universitat Jaume I

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I and member of the GRAPE (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English) and the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). He holds a PhD. in Applied Linguistics. His main research areas include: teaching English as a foreign language, pragmatic competence, and multimodality. He has published several articles in journals such as ELIA and Language Value and book chapters on these topics. He has also co-edited with Blanca García-Riaza the special issue “Teaching with technology: Integrating new technologies in the language skills” (2017) in Language Value.

Edgar Bernad-Mechó

Universitat Jaume I

Edgar Bernad-Mechó is a PhD in Applied Linguistics that actively collaborates with the research group GRAPE at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He is currently lecturing at UNIR (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja). His main interests are the study of academic English in lectures and multimodality studies. In terms of research, he is currently looking at the organization of lectures through the use of metadiscourse and the ensemble of semiotic resources employed in by lecturers in these fragments. He is also interested in the combination of multimodal methodologies for the study of spoken academic genres.

María Ángeles Mestre Segarra

Universitat Jaume I

María Ángeles Mestre Segarra has been an associate lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (UJI) since the 2016-2017 academic year. She is currently a student in the Doctorate Programme in Applied Languages, Literature and Translation. She has completed her training as an English teacher with a degree in English Studies (2010-2014) and the official Master’s degree in English for International Trade (2014-2016), in addition to the official university Master’s Degree in Teacher of Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (2015-2016). She also actively participates as a member of the Seminari Permanent d’Innovació Educativa de Docéncia en Anglés (SPIEDA) at the UJI. In the last two years she has carried out teaching stays and lectures in universities and international congresses with the aim of improving her knowledge based on language learning from a multimodal approach reinforcing English for specific purposes. She has participated in different research projects and has published several articles.

Òscar Chiva Bartoll

Universitat Jaume I

Òscar Chiva Bartoll is currently a professor at the Department of Education of the Universitat Jaume I. He previously worked for 10 years as a secondary school teacher, as well as Assistant Professor of the Department of Musical, Plastic and Body Expression at the University of Valencia. He has a degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and an interuniversity PhD with international mention by the Universities Jaume I and the University of Valencia. He has completed his training with a Master’s Degree in Research and Intervention in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Ethics and Democracy and a Postgraduate Specialization in Sports Management. Likewise, he has made several research stays at national and international level and participates in different research projects and educational innovation seminars. He has published articles, books and book chapters indexed in the main international databases.

Celina Salvador García

Universitat Jaume I

Celina Salvador García is a tenured Primary Education teacher specialised in English. She actively participates in the Seminari Permanent d’Innovació Educativa de Docència en Anglès (SPIEDA-UJI) and in the Seminario Permanente de Innovación Metodológica Universitaria (SPIMEU-UJI), as well as in the Network of Valencian Universities for service-learning (inter-university) and in the Research Group ENDAVANT (ENfocament de la Diversitat com un AVANTatge), of which she has been a FPI predoctoral scholarship holder, teaching and carrying out her doctoral thesis on the implications of the CLIL approach in the subject of physical education. She has completed her training as a Specialist Teacher in Physical Education, in addition to the degree of Specialist Teacher in English and with the Master Universitari en Comunicació Intercultural i Ensenyament de Llengües. She has also carried out several research stays in national and international universities and has published several publications with an impact on educational research and language learning.