Heidi Douglas

Heidi Douglas has a BA in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds (UK) and an MA on Advanced English Studies from the University of Vigo. Her MA thesis deals with English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the attitudes of Spanish teachers (ESP teachers, Professors) and PhD students towards ELF and its repercussions on English Language Teaching. 

She is currently working on her PhD, which will focus on ELF, building on the research of her MA thesis

As a research assisstant under contract, she focuses particularly on the selection, transcription and codification of texts for the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English.  

PUBLICATIONS

(2023) Seoane, Elena, Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Lucía Loureiro-Porto and Heidi Douglas. International Corpus of English – Gibraltar (ICE-GBR). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7690749. http://view0.webs.uvigo.es/ice-gibraltar

PRESENTATIONS

IDAES Graduate day 2021 - 4th June 2021, 'The impact of English as a Lingua Franca on English language teaching: A preliminary approach to teachers' attitudes in Spain', University of Vigo, Spain

LVTC Research seminar - 26 October 2021, 'English as a Lingua Franca and its repercussions on English Language Teaching' (chair: Elena Seoane), University of Vigo, Spain

International Workshop Modelling the linguistic architecture of English: cognitive and empirical developments - 19-20th January 2023, Communication: 'Attitudes towards English as a Lingua Franca in Spain: A proposal', Vigo, Spain

Guest lecture - 31st October 2023, 'ELF - Attitudes in Spain', TU Dortmund University, Germany