Language Teaching Research Quarterly

Iris Melanie Lucio-Villegas Spillard

Iris M. Lucio-Villegas Spillard holds an MA in teaching (2014), an MA in humanities (2020), and a doctorate in English literature (2023). She teaches English language history, Academic English, and translation theory and practice at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

Elvira Izquierdo Sánchez-Migallón

María Cornejo Núñez

María Cornejo Núñez holds a degree in English Studies (University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2013), an MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (University of Seville, 2014) and a doctorate with international mention in Philological Studies (University of Seville in cotutelle with the Roma Tre University, 2020). She specializes in the methodology of teaching and learning foreign/second languages. Her research focuses on language learning and acquisition of Spanish as a foreign language and English as a second language. She has been teaching at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos since 2018. She is Vice-coordinator of the subject Modern Language, which is taught in all URJC degrees. She has held this position since September 2021. In addition to teaching in different university degrees, she collaborates with the University Language Centre by giving training courses aimed at both students and university staff (PAS and PDI). The language training she provides is mainly in English (courses aimed at URJC students and staff) and Spanish (foreign students studying at the URJC). His research interests focus on foreign language teaching-learning methodologies, especially the branch of Spanish as a foreign language and the acquisition of Spanish as a second language in English speakers. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and language teaching innovation in general are other lines of research to which he is currently dedicated.