Studies in Philology

Gema Alcaraz Mármol obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Universidad de Murcia (UMU) in 2011. At present, she works as a Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages in the Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM). She currently teaches CLIL Methodology and EFL Teaching and Learning in the Primary Education degree programme. Her research interests include EFL teaching, L2 vocabulary acquisition and Corpus linguistics, with a special focus on teaching materials and resources. Mª del Mar Jiménez-Cervantes Arnao has a double degree in French Studies (Universidad de Murcia) and Translation and Interpreting (Universidad de Granada). She obtained her PhD in French Studies in January 2014. She works at the Department of Modern Languages at the Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), where she teaches French in the Tourism degree programme. Her main research interest is French literature translations, especially those located in El Salvador.