About

I am a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Corpus 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). During the 2025/2026 academic year, I’m a Visiting Professor with the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong.

I am Co-Editor in Chief of CUP ReCALL journal (5.7 IF 2024; ranked 4th 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.

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.

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).