Language learning across digital platforms, participatory cultures, and intelligent technologies.
I study how languages are learned, taught, and lived across digitally mediated environments, including social media, fandoms, video games, online communities, and artificial intelligence.
About
My work sits at the intersection of language education, applied linguistics, digital literacies, informal learning, fandom, artificial intelligence, and teacher education.
I am a Ramón y Cajal Researcher in Language Education at the University of Seville. My research examines how contemporary communicative practices — from fan translation, memes, video games and social media to generative AI and algorithmic platforms — transform language learning, teaching, literacy practices, and teacher identities. I have led competitive projects on digitally mediated language learning and contemporary literacies, including DEFINERS, SEGUE, and Gaming as Literacy.
Research areas
I approach language learning as a socially situated, digitally mediated and culturally embedded practice.
Digitally mediated language learning and literacies
Platforms, online communities, social media, video games, fandoms and intelligent technologies as environments for language learning and literacy development.
Informal and self-directed language learning
Learners’ engagement with languages beyond the classroom, especially across digital wilds, interest-driven communities and platform-based ecologies.
Fan translation and participatory cultures
Fansubbing, fandubbing, fanfiction, scanlation, memes, video games and other participatory practices as spaces for language learning and identity work.
AI, algorithms and language education
How generative AI and algorithmic systems reshape language teaching, authorship, assessment, feedback, critical literacy and teacher education.
Language teacher education and pedagogical innovation
Pedagogical approaches that connect contemporary digital practices with language teacher education, including memes, fan-based learning, digital storytelling and AI-supported tasks.
Language, identity and digital participation
How learners and teachers construct identities, affiliations and trajectories through language, technology, platforms and multimodal communication.
Selected publications
A selection of publications on digital literacies, fandom, AI, informal language learning and language teacher education.
‘AI is Like Fire’: a discourse analysis of language teachers’ attitudes towards artificial intelligence
Journal of Education for Teaching. With Alba Paz-López and Liudmila Shafirova.
Memes and identity in language teacher education
Language Learning & Technology. With Alba Paz-López and Sergio Rey-Godoy.
Catalan identity and language attitudes through fan translation of video games in the digital wilds
Journal of Language, Identity & Education. With Steven L. Thorne.
The emerging phenomenon of L2 vlogging on Bilibili
Profesional de la información. With Leticia-Tian Zhang and Daniel Cassany.
“¿Triste estás? I don’t know nan molla”: Multilingual pop song fandubs by @miree_music
ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics. With Leticia-Tian Zhang.
Projects
My projects connect research, teacher education, open educational resources and knowledge transfer.
DEFINERS
Digital Language Learning of Junior Language Teachers. A competitive project on digital language learning, teacher education, literacies, AI and informal learning.
SEGUE
Social Media and Video Games for Language Learning and Teaching. A project on participatory digital cultures and language teacher education.
Gaming as Literacy
A postdoctoral project on video games as academic and vernacular literacy practices among young people.
Teaching & supervision
I teach and supervise in language education, applied linguistics, language teacher education, digital literacies, English language teaching and Spanish as a foreign language.
Teaching areas
Language pedagogy, curriculum design, English language teaching, Spanish as a foreign language, digital literacies, AI in education, fandom in language education, and teacher education.
Supervision
I supervise work on digitally mediated language learning, informal learning, fandom, AI, language teacher education, ELE, English language teaching, and contemporary literacies.
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