Raquel Fernández Fuertes
Raquel Fernández Fuertes is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Valladolid (Spain) and she is the director of the UVALAL research group (University of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab). She specializes in linguistic theory, comparative grammar and bilingual acquisition. In her research she makes use of linguistic theory and, in particular, of minimalist premises in order to account for language-contact phenomena and the latent relationship between native and non-native acquisition. This is achieved by means of the analyses of spontaneous and experimental data elicited via different methodologies.
Esther Álvarez de la Fuente
Esther Álvarez de la Fuente is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her main research interest is the morphosyntactic analysis of the cases of natural interpreting/translation (the translation done by bilinguals in everyday circumstances without academic formation in it) performed by bilingual children together with the analysis of the development of the translation ability in natural interpreters. As a member of the UVALAL research group, she works on the analysis of linguistic phenomena related to languages in contact observed in both spontaneous and experimental data from child and adult bilinguals.
Sonja Mujcinovic
Sonja Mujcinovic is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her research is focused on second language acquisition, linguistic typology, bilingual morphosyntactic analysis and crosslinguistic influence primarily in the domain of sentential subjects in the case of L1 Danish, L1 Bosnian and L1 Spanish speakers of L2 English. As a member of the UVALAL research group, she works both on adult and child spontaneous and experimental data in language contact situations.
Qianting Yuan
Qianting Yuan is an adjunct professor in the English Department at the University of Valladolid (Spain). She holds a PhD in Advanced English Studies from the University of Valladolid. Her primary research interests include bilingual and second language acquisition, with a particular focus on crosslinguistic influence in L1 Chinese speakers of L1/L2 English, and the application of ICT in higher education. As a member of the UVALAL research group, she investigates linguistic phenomena related to languages in contact observed in both spontaneous and experimental data from child and adult bilinguals.
Eduardo Gómez Garzarán
Eduardo Gómez Garzarán is a full time English and content subjects teacher and the coordinator of the English-Spanish bilingual section at Colegio Ave María in Valladolid (Spain) since 2006. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Valladolid. He defended his PhD dissertation in 2023. His doctoral research revolves around cross-linguistic influence and word order within the determiner phrase domain in structures presenting nominal modification by adjectives and by nouns. This is explored in the case of Spanish native children learning English as a second language in formal educational contexts with and without explicit instruction.
Tamara Gómez Carrero
Tamara Gómez Carrero is a professor in the English Department at the University of Valladolid (Spain). She holds a PhD on Advanced English Studies (University of Valladolid, 2023). Her main research interests are bilingual and second language acquisition. More specifically, she is working on how bilingual speakers perceive and process grammatical gender in codeswitching contexts by means of different methodologies such as eyetracking. As a member of the UVALAL research group, she works on the design of experimental tasks and on the collection of linguistic data from bilingual children and adults.
Radoslava Stankova Laykova
Radoslava Stankova Laykova graduated in English Studies from the University of Valladolid. She completed the interuniversity MA Program in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact at the University of Valladolid. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Valladolid under the supervision of Raquel Fernández Fuertes. Her main research interests include bilingual first language acquisition, language contact and morphosyntax in the case of Bulgarian, Spanish and English. She is also interested in applied linguistics and language teaching.
Diana Carrascal Tris
Diana Carrascal Tris is an associate lecturer at the Department of English Philology at the University of Valladolid (UVa) and works at Cachivaches Logopedia. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on learning English (L2) by children and adolescents with dyslexia, examining the cognitive processes affected by dyslexia in their L1 (Spanish) and L2 (English). She also coordinates a teaching innovation project at the UVa that investigates how to improve the reading and writing skills in English (L2) using AI tools in higher education.
grant holders
- Ana Aguado Contreras (2022-2023; master; UVa Consejo social)
- Tamara Gómez Carrero (2019-2022; predoc; Castile and León regional government, Department of education, Spain)
- Alba Roldán García (2021-2022; undergraduate; Ministry of education, Spain)
- Tamara Gómez Carrero (Jan 2019-Jun 2019; predoc; University of Valladolid; Spain)
- Alejandro Martínez (2018-2019; postdoc; Castile and León regional government and FEDER; project [VA009P17])
- Patricia Carro García (2017-2018; undergraduate; Ministry of education, Spain)
- Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez (2015-2016; undergraduate; Ministry of education, Spain)
- Tamara Gómez Carrero (2014-2015; master; UVa Consejo social)
- Radoslava Stankova Laikova (2015-2016; master; UVa Consejo social)
- Silvia Sánchez Calderón (2014-2018; PhD; Castile and León regional government, Department of education, Spain)
- Tamara Gómez Carrero (2013-2014; undergraduate; Ministry of education, Spain)
