Dr Arianda Sánchez-Hernández, Dr Emma Dafouz (IP), Dr Elena Orduna-Nocito, Dr Mateusz Pietraszek, Dr Irene Soriano-Flórez, Dr Davinia Sánchez-García
Welcome to the MILES Research Group
Since its formation in 2006 by Prof. Emma Dafouz, the consolidated Research Group (Ref. 940940) Multilingüismo, Internacionalización y Lengua Inglesa en la Educación Superior (MILES) (Eng. Multilingualism, Internationalisation and the English Language in Higher Education; formerly EngInHE) has collectively published different works in the area of English linguistics, which have culminated in the book ROAD-MAPPING English medium education in the Internatinonalised University (2020), edited by E. Dafouz and U. Smit, as well as different book chapters andover 120 research paperspublishedin national and international journals such as the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Applied Linguistics,Modern Language Journal, and Journal of Pragmatics.
Currently, the group consists of 10 members:
- two professors - Department of English Studies, University of Vienna, and Department of English Studies, UCM;
- seven doctors members - Departmentof English Studies, UCM, and URJC.
- one predoctoral researcher - Department of English Studies, UCM.
All members work in a coordinated manner, but with their own additional areas of research, related to the role of the English language in the internationalisation of higher education. More particularly, the group deals with the following research areas:
- The acquisition of English as a foreign (EFL) and international language (EIL).
- The acquisition of EFL/EIL in English-medium education (EME).
- The acquisition of EFL/EIL in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
- Discourse analysis, and more particularly classroom discourse.
- Internationalization policies in higher education: language policies and planning.
- The acquisition of intercultural competence and pragmatic competence in EIL.
- The development of disciplinary literacies in EME.
- Intelligibility of international English and pronunciation of English in university settings.
The MILES research group has relied upon continued funding since its creation and has recently incorporated younger researchers working directly in the area of English and internationalisation in tertiary education. All together, the members have collaborated for more than 10 years on different publications, research groups, innovation projects, conferences, and more recently on the professional development of faculty at the UCM within the Plan for Curricular Internationalisation (www.ucm.es/pid).