Jesús Romero-Trillo

Grants and Doctoral Thesis

Grants and Doctoral Thesis
  1. Stevenson Foundation Scholarship (1990-1991). University of Edinburgh.
  2. Salvador de Madariaga Scholarship (2022). King’s College London.

Research Leader of Corpus Compilation and Analysis of English as a first, second or foreign language

  1. Compilation of a spoken corpus of English as a Foreign Language in Madrid (funded by Madrid Research Agency, -5 team members), 2002;  €15,000.
  2. Spanish section of The Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI Corpus) (funded by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 3 team members) 2003-2004, €10,000.
  3. Linguistic study of a spoken corpus of English as a Foreign Language, pedagogic applications  (funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 5 team members), 2003-2006; € 20,000.
  4. The intercultural representation in the perception of natural landscapes, -Corpus of Language and Nature- (funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Research, 9 team members), 2008-2012;  € 60,000. Worldwide collection and analysis of the speech of speakers of English as a first, second or foreign language.
  5. International Conference of Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Research, 2010. € 11,000.
  6. A linguistic atlas of nature in intercultural Communication in English: semántica, prosodic and cognitive patterns; funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economía y Competitividad, 2013-2015. € 50,000.
  7. Expressing emotions: a corpus-based contrastive interlanguage analysis of pragmatic competence in learner English; funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economía y Competitividad, 2016-2020. €30,250.
  8. Teaching English prosody to L2 and L3 learners in digital environments. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economía y Competitividad, 2021-2023.
  9. The analysis of crisis narratives in intercultural communication. King’s College London. June-November 2022.

Research Team Member

  1.  Syntactic anomalies in linguistic production. Analysis and evaluation of spontaneous errors in normal and disturbed speech (funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Education), 1994-1997.
  2.  Development of a Text Telephone Interface for the Hearing and/or Speaking Impaired (funded by the Madrid Research Agency, 10 researchers), 1995.
  3.  Development of a relational database of coherente and cohesión elements in discourse (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 5 team members), 1997-1999.
  4.  Analysis of  the Speech of air traffic controlers in Spain: psycholinguistic implications (funded by Spanish Air Navigation Agency –AENA, 15 members), 2000-2001.
  5.  Linguistic analysis of the spoken and written production of Spanish secondary school students who study Geography and History in English (Funded by Madrid Research Agency, 6 members), 2007-2009.
  6.  European CLIL Resource Centre for Web 2.0 Education: Early-to-Longlife Languages Learning Funded by Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (UE) – 504671-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-COMENIUS-CMP. 2010-2012
  7. Research Expert in Erasmus + Project  (2016-1-ES01-KA204-025026)- Digital tools for inclusion of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants (digital inclusion project)
    2016-2018
  8. Civis Project Leader (Madrid)- Developing Environmental, Economic, Social,
    Sustainable, and Intercultural Cities. A Transversal and Integrative Social and Educational Approach for Citizens, Migrants and Refugees. 2022

Doctoral theses supervised

Llinares García, Ana. 2002. La interacción lingüística en el aula de segundas lenguas en edades tempranas: análisis de un corpus desde una perspectiva funcional (co-supervised with Ana Martín Uriz). Cum laude

Ramírez Verdugo, Dolores. 2003. A contrastive analysis of non-native interlanguage English intonation systems and their implication in the organization of information from a functional perspective. A study based on a computerized corpus of Spanish learners of English. Cum laude

Riesco Bernier, Silvia. 2007. Configuración de la interfaz discurso-gramática en el lenguaje del profesor de preescolar en el aula ILE: presentación de una red sistémica como herramienta para un análisis sistemático de las funciones reguladoras (co-supervised with Ana Llinares). Cum laude

Maguire, Laura. 2013. A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Context in Classroom Discourse from a Pragmatic Perspective. Cum laude

Avila Ledesma, Nancy. 2019. A diachronic, ethnopragmatic study of the conceptualization of emotions in Irish emigrants’ personal correspondence (co-supervised with Carolina Amador). Cum laude

Jiménez Vilches, Raúl. 2021. The Role of L2 Discourse Intonation and Prosody in Public Speaking. A Study of the Form-Function Interface in Spanish University Students of English.

Sadeghi, Yalda. 2022. A corpus study of Pragmatic Markers in Scripted and Spontaneous Conversations. Cum laude

Attia, Safa. 2023. A corpus-assisted analysis of the representation of the Arab Spring on the Arabic and English language media: the case of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Cum laude

Rozina, Irina. 2024. A corpus-driven cross-cultural analysis of the concepts of justice, innocence, guilt and shame in English, Spanish and Russian. Cum laude

Odiegwu, Nancy. 2024. Total reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin -Naija. A cognitive linguistics approach. Cum laude