Lexicon Exploration in English and Spanish Learners

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Rosa María Jiménez Catalán is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Letters and Education at the University of La Rioja, Spain. She has taught subjects related to applied linguistics for over three decades, including vocabulary acquisition and development in second languages, lexical  availability, translation, second language acquisition, ELT methodology, and innovation and research in ELT. She has also taught instrumental English to undergraduate and postgraduate students on Hispanic Language and Literature and Education degree programmes. She has led research projects related to foreign language education, particularly concerning the acquisition and development of lexical competence and lexical availability of learners of English as a foreign language with different language profiles. She has also been a visiting lecturer and research fellow in the departments of Applied Linguistics at Concordia University, Lancaster University, and Birkbeck, University of London. She was formerly the director of the Applied Linguistics Research Group (GLAUR) at the University of La Rioja (GLAUR) and is the author or co-author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed publications on  vocabulary and lexical availability in second languages, including a monograph on lexical availability, published by Springer in 2014.

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