Bios

Asunción Martínez-Arbelaiz (orcid.org/0000-0002-3784-2266) holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University, New York. She is currently the Spanish Language Coordinator for the University Studies Abroad Consortium, where she also teaches a variety of courses of Spanish for speakers of other languages. Her research interests have evolved from theoretical linguistics to more applied aspects related to language, particularly second language acquisition, language education and sociolinguistics. She has published on a variety of topics such as technology for language learners and teachers, the design, implementation and evaluation of language tasks, and the development of language and culture acquisition in the study abroad context in various journals devoted to second language research. She is also part of the research group Elkarrikertuz, where she contributes ideas related to identity, language and discourse to the challenge of how to prepare the teachers of the future. As a result of this collaboration, several presentations and publications have emerged that point to the need for a community of colleagues for teacher education.