Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning: An International Perspective

About

Mario Cal Varela is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Santiago de Compostela Spain where he teaches English and varieties of English. His research interests include sociolinguistics and English language teaching and learning in particular the incorporation of ICTs into foreign language teaching. More recently his research interests have shifted into the area of English for academic purposes.Francisco Javier Fernández Polo is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago Spain where he teaches English and translation. He has published on the areas of translation language teaching and the new technologies contrastive rhetoric textual design and accessibility and more recently English for research purposes. He has also participated in a number of national and European research projects on these topics.Lidia Gómez García is Research Fellow at the University of Santiago Spain. She has actively participated in the SULEC (Santiago University Learner of English Corpus) project funded by the Galician Ministry of Education. At the moment she is preparing her PhD dissertation on it-cleft sentences in modern English and is also working as a research assistant to SPERTUS (Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago). She also collaborates in the CMC_E (Communicating in Multilingual Contexts meets the Enterprises) project funded by the EU.Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago where he teaches English grammar and several courses on TEFL. He has published on different areas of English grammar and second language teaching and learning. At present he is the Head of the universitys Language Centre and leader of a research project on spoken English (SPERTUS).