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Maria-Dolores Ramirez-Verdugo (PhD, MA) works as an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow (Tenured-track Position) at the Department of Modern Languages and Methodology, Area of English Studies, Bilingual Education and Speech Analysis, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Currently Dr. Ramírez coordinates the UAM registered research group she founded in 2006, so-called UAM-TeLL (Technology Enhanced Content and Language Integrated Learning in Bilingual Education and Multicultural Settings). TeLL investigates the effect and uses of technology in language learning – first, second and foreign language contexts; and apply speech technology and analysis to language recognition and language perception studies both for academic and professional purposes. Dr. Ramírez has been a visiting scholar at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge (2005); Universidad del Valle de Orizaba, Veracruz, México (2006); York College-City of New York (2012); Graduate Center-CUNY (2012); Mercy College-New York – English Department (2012), University of Umeå, Sweden (2013); Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2014), Institute of Modern Languages, The University of Queensland, Australia (July 2017), University of Technology Sydney, Australia (July-September 2017), among other universities and research centers. |
