Teaching staff
Miren Alazne Landa Arevalillo
- Knowledge area
- English Philology
- Department
- English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies
- Centre
- Faculty of Arts
- Electronic mail
- alazne.landa@ehu.eus
I obtained my B.A. in English Studies in 1986 (Universidad de Deusto). Afterwards I completed two master diplomas –M.A. in English Linguistics, M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language– at Ball State University (Indiana, USA, 1988). I obtained a PhD in Spanish (validated as a Doctorate in Linguistics by the Spanish Ministry of Education) from the U. of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA, 1995).
I teach in the undergraduate program in English Studies. The subjects I teach are Varieties of English (4th year elective) and English Grammar I (a compulsory 3rd year subject that can be taken as an elective by 4th year students of Philology and Basque Studies). I usually supervise Bachelor’s theses within the fields of English grammar or English varieties (or a combination of both). I have occasionally supervised papers within Applied Linguistics.
I also teach the course Methods of Linguistic Research within the Master Program in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics. The master theses I have supervised so far are related to the fields of language contact, linguistic attitudes and minority languages. The doctoral dissertations I have supervised so far have been carried out within the fields of theoretical grammar and contrastive grammar (Spanish, English, sign languages).
My main lines of investigation are language contact (Spanish-English, Spanish-Basque), grammar and cooperative learning at the university level.