Biodata

After graduating at UCM, Dr. Dafouz obtained a grant from Stevenson Foundation and British Council to complete a Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh University.

From a research perspective, her work focuses on language and education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), classroom discourse, English-medium instruction (EMI) and language policies in higher education. As a member of the Spanish Rector’s Conference (CRUE), within the sub-group of Internationalisation, she has co-authored the framework document for Language Policies and the Internationalization of Spanish Universities.

Her research publications include over 40 articles in national and international journals and book chapters in Benjamins, Peter Lang, Multilingual Matters, Rodopi or Richmond-Santillana. At present, she coordinates (principal investigator) an interdisciplinary research group (INTER-LICA) with colleagues from the School of Business and Economics at the UCM, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and a UCM research group since 2006.

At the UCM she was academic coordinator of the Master’s in English Linguistics from 2010-12. Since 1998 she teaches courses in Applied Linguistics, CLIL, ELT Methodology and Discourse Analysis at graduate and postgraduate level and also supervises Master-Level and Doctoral students on topics related to CLIL, second/foreign language teacher education, classroom discourse and English-medium instruction.