Pascual Francisco
Perez Paredes

I am a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Linguistics, U. Murcia, and former Lecturer in Research in Second Language Education at the University of Cambridge. My main research interests are the use of corpus linguistics methods in applied linguistics, corpora and digital resources in language education, learner language variation, and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. I was the Overall Coordinator of the MEd Research Methods Strand at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (2016-2019). I am Assistant Editor of CUP ReCALL journal (4.5 IF 2022; ranked 7th in Linguistics and 3rd in Language & Linguistics)and corpus linguistics strand coordinator for AELFE and the American Association of Applied Linguistics (2021-2022). I've recently been appointed member of the Applied Linguistics Press (ALP) Advisory Board, the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Advisory Board, member of the Editorial Board of Digital Studies in Language and Literature, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research (JCLR). I've just started a Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Assistant Editor role for the International Journal of English Studies (IJES). My most recent book is Corpus Linguistics for education. A guide for research in the Routledge Corpus Linguistics series. I am currently PI of the ERASMUS+ project “Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens’ identity and transnational discourses” (2023-2025) funded by the European Commission and Co-PI in the Spanish Research Agency -funded project Understanding internationalisation in Higher Education from the student perspective: a longitudinal analysis of disciplinary literacy in English-Medium Education (SHIFT).