Language Teacher Education
How future language teachers develop identities, professional knowledge and pedagogical judgement through digital practices.
Research focus
Language teacher education is the educational setting that connects these strands of my work.
Pedagogical judgement
What do future language teachers delegate to AI, and what do they decide to do themselves? My current agenda examines these choices in relation to task design, feedback and assessment.
Teacher identity
Memes and other multimodal texts provide resources for examining how preservice language teachers represent experiences and imagined professional futures.
Professional learning
Informal digital language learning, participatory communities and digital literacies connect language development with preparation for teaching.
Selected publications
Research connecting teacher education with discourse, identity and digital literacies.
Memes and identity in language teacher education
Boris Vázquez-Calvo, Alba Paz-López and Sergio Rey-Godoy. Language Learning & Technology, 29(1), 1–27 (2025).
‘AI is like fire’
Alba Paz-López, Liudmila Shafirova and Boris Vázquez-Calvo. A discourse analysis of language teachers’ attitudes towards artificial intelligence (2026).
Teaching and open resources
Connections between research and language teacher education.
Teaching and supervision
Language didactics, TELL/CALL, digital literacies, teacher education and doctoral supervision.
Open educational materials
Fan-Based Learning in Language Education and AI: friend or foe? offer resources for teacher education.