María Rosa Alonso Alonso

Breve CV

Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Vigo. She has previously taught at the University of Santiago and at the Modern Language Centre of this institution. She has been engaged in different research projects concerning Second Language Acquisition. She has a number of publications on this area, including the books The Role of Transfer in Second Language Acquisition (2002), Writing for Academic Purposes: a handbook for learners of English as a Second Language (2011), the edited volumes Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition (2016), Speaking in a Second Language (2018) and the journal VIAL Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics. She has also has co-authored the Diccionario de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Lenguas (2007)