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.
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.
María Teresa (Maite) Martínez García
Maite Martínez García is a tenure-track professor in the Department of English Philology at the Duques de Soria Campus of the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her research focuses on speech perception in second-language (L2) learners, particularly on lexical stress processing and the effects of orthography on word recognition in L2. From an experimental perspective, she employs eye-tracking and acoustic analysis to examine how native speakers of various languages (German, Chinese, Korean, French, Japanese, and English) process phonological information in L2 acquisition contexts. As a member of the GIR UVALAL research group, she works with both spontaneous and experimental data from adults and children in language contact situations. Her research is framed within bilingual processing and L2 speech perception models, contributing to a deeper understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying word recognition in a second language.v
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.
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.
Susana Merino Mañueco
Susana Merino Mañueco is an adjunct professor in the Department of Spanish Language at the University of Valladolid (Spain). She holds a PhD in Spanish: Linguistics, Literature and Communication in 2018 (University of Valladolid). Her research focuses on second language acquisition. In particular, she is part of the interdisciplinary area of Applied Linguistics in L2 teaching-learning focused on teacher error correction and feedback, during L2 written production activities in Primary Education. Her research line aims to contribute to L2 teachers’ ongoing training on error as a result of the strong affective-motivational impact it has on correction and feedback.
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)
