Dr Alba del Pozo García
- Position: Lecturer in Spanish Language
- Areas of expertise: Spanish language; language learning; CLIL; language assessment; language pedagogies; feedback and assessment in HE; Spanish culture and literature; Spanish modernity; gender studies
- Email: A.delPozoGarcia@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 2.33 Michael Sadler
- Website: LinkedIn | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
Profile
I am a Lecturer in Spanish Language at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. I teach Spanish and Spanish culture and I am interested in interested the scholarship surrounding teaching Spanish as a foreign language and language learning methodologies. Specifically, I have developed projects around peer oral assessment, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and the current shape and identity of Modern Languages programmes in the UK Higher Education Landscape.
These interests in Pedagogical Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning led me to become the Incubator Lead for Feedback at the Leeds Institute of Teaching Excellence (LITE). I also co-direct the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching (CELT). I am also part as communications offer of the executive board of ELEUK, the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in the UK.
I received my PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2013. It focused on the relationship between sickness, gender and science in Spanish literature from the fin-de-siècle. I have also been part in projects of research projects focusing on female travel writing between Spain, Latin America and the US during the early 20th Century. Before joining Leeds, I taught Spanish at the University of Nottingham and the University of Birmingham and the Instituto Cervantes.
Responsibilities
- Director of Scholarship
- Co-Director of CELT
- LITE Feedback Incubator Lead
Research interests
My latest publications on language teaching reflect my scholarship interests on CLIL, peer-collaboration and assessment:
Co-edition (2024). ELEUK ampliando horizontes: propuestas didácticas y avances en investigación. Alcalá de Henares. Instituto Cervantes.
Book chapter. (2022). Retos en torno a la integración de la lengua y el contenido: la incorporación de un MOOC sobre el mundo hispanohablante a un curso de lengua. In Soler Montes, Carlos; Díaz-Bravo, Rocío; Colomer i Domínguez, Vicens (Eds), Avances investigadores y pedagógicos sobre la enseñanza del español: aportes desde el contexto universitario británico (pp. 55–70). Research-publishing.net.
Special issue coordination. (2021). ¿Lengua o contenido? Retos interculturales en la enseñanza del español en las universidades del Reino Unido. Doblele Español Lengua Extranjera. vol. 7.
Book chapter. A. (2020). Raising awareness on assessment criteria through peer-assessment and self-reflection in the Spanish oral class. In A. Lallana, L. Hernández Martín & M. Fuertes Gutiérrez (Eds), Five years of ELEUK conferences: a selection of short papers from 2019 (pp. 79–88). Research-publishing.net.
Qualifications
- PhD Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- MA in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Postgraduate Course in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Instituto Cervantes)
- PGCHE - Pedagogies and Didactics of Language and Literature (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- BA in Hispanic Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Professional memberships
- Fellow of HEA
Research groups and institutes
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies