Esther Gómez Lacabex
Esther Gómez Lacabex is Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) where she currently teaches undergraduate courses in English Language and English Phonology. She also lectures in the Masters’ programme Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (http://www.lams.ehu.es/p149-1000/es).
She defended her PhD (Doctor Europeus) on the perception and production of English vowel reduction by Spanish Speakers at UPV-EHU in 2009. Her research interests are the effect of instruction in L2 sound acquisition and the relationship between speech perception and production as well as pronunciation teaching in EFL and CLIL learning contexts.
Research Interests
- The acquisition of foreign language speech
- The role of instruction in the acquisition of L2 sounds
- Relationship between speech perception and production
- Content Language and Integrate d Learning (CLIL)
- Pronunciation teaching
Projects
- Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2022 - 2025)
- English-Medium instruction at university: A study focused on interaction in content lectures (EMIUNI) (2021 - 2025)
- Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2016 - 2021)
- Team teaching in English-Medium instruction programmes at university: Fostering language and content teacher collaboration (2016 - 2020)
- DIACEX: Dissecting Foreign Accent (2013 - 2016)
- Language and Speech (2010 - 2015)
- Research in English Applied Linguistics (2010 - 2012)
- Internacionalización y multilingüismo en universidades en contextos bilingües: Cataluña, País Vasco y Gales (2008 - 2011)
- Grupo de Investigación Consolidado del Sistema Universitario Vasco (2007 - 2009)
- Grupo de Investigación Research in English Applied Linguistics (2007 - 2007)
- DESARROLLO DE LA COMPETENCIA FONÉTICA, MORFOSINTÁCTICA, LÉXICA Y DISCURSIVA EN INGLÉS COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA: UN ESTUDIO LONGITUDINAL (2006 - 2009)
- Sustainable development in a diverse world (2005 - 2010)
Books

David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Marta Kopinska. (2021) Learning history in English: Language-related materials for students. Pub.:Servicio Editorial UPV/EHU. ISBN: 978-84-1319-303-8. Abstract || PDF
Journal Papers
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Jian Gong. (2022) Perception and production training effects on production of English lexical schwa by young Spanish learners. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation. 8 (2):196-216. Abstract
- Izaskun Villarreal, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, María Martínez Adrián, Maria Juncal Gutierrez Mangado. (2020) Hot Potatoes Activities to Improve Grammatical Accuracy Across Different Proficiency Courses. Journal of English Studies. 18:253-277. Abstract || PDF
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2020) Explicit phonetic instruction vs. implicit attention to native exposure: phonological awareness of English schwa in CLIL. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 58(4):419-444. Abstract || PDF
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2017) Oral production outcomes in CLIL: an attempt to manage amount of exposure. European Journal of Applied Linguistics. 5(1):31-54. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2015) The assessment of foreign accent and its communicative effects by naïve native judges vs. experienced non-native judges. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 25:202-224. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2014) Raising perceptual phonemic awareness in the EFL classroom. Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics. 5:203-215. Abstract || PDF
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2014) Two phonetic training procedures for young learners: Investigating instructional effects on perceptual awareness. Canadian Modern Language Review. 70(4):500-531. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2013) The impact of additional CLIL exposure on oral English production. Journal of English Studies. 11:113-131. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2009) Identification of the contrast full vowel-schwa: training effects and generalization to a new perceptual context. Ilha do Desterro,Special Issue: English interphonology. 55:-. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2008) La enseñanza de las vocales inglesas a los hablantes de español. Pulso. 31:37-66. Abstract
Book Chapters
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2021) Pronunciation in EMI: A preliminary study of Spanish university students’ intelligibility and comprehensibility. Ed.: David Lasagabaster & Aintzane Doiz. Pub.: Routledge. Pags: 126-144. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Martin Cooke. (2009) Training and generalization effects of English vowel reduction for Spanish listeners. Ed.: Michael A. Watkins, Andreia S. Rauber and Barbara O. Baptista. Pub.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pags: 32-42. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2009) Testing the effectiveness of content and language integrated learning in foreign language contexts: assessment of English pronunciation. Ed.: Ruiz de Zarobe, Y. and Jiménez Catalán R.. Pub.: Multilingual Matters. Pags: 63-80. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2007) The assessment of foreign accent by native and non-native judges. Ed.: John Maidment. Pub.: London University College. Pags: -. Abstract || PDF
Conference Papers
- Agurtzane Azkarai Garai, Esther Gómez Lacabex, María Martínez Adrián. (2021) Fun with tasks ¿Qué tareas pueden ayudarnos a desarrollar una lengua extranjera?. Zientziaren, Teknologiaren eta Berrikuntzaren XXI. Astea/ XXI. Semana de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación Vitoria-Gasteiz. Abstract
- Maria Juncal Gutierrez Mangado, María Martínez Adrián, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Inés Uribe Echevarria, Izaskun Villarreal, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2014) Uso de las TICs para la consolidación del uso de tiempos verbales en inglés como lengua extranjera.. XV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura (SEDLL) Valencia, Spain. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2013) Raising perceptual phonemic awareness in the EFL classroom. New Sounds 2013 Montreal, Canada. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2013) English oral skills in CLIL and nonCLIL learners: An attempt to control for exposure. Applied Linguistics Perspectives on Content and Language Integrated Learning (ALP-CLIL) Madrid, Spain. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2012) CLIL effects on Basque-Spanish speakers’ oral production in English. 30th AESLA Congress Lleida. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri. (2012) Over/generalization effects in the production of English weak and full vowels in unstressed syllables after vowel reduction training: evidence for L2 sound learning in progress. EUROSLA 22 Poznan, Poland. Abstract
- Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2011) Training Spanish speakers to produce English lexical schwa in a formal learning context: carry over effects to a new context and to novel stimuli. 35 AEDEAN Conference: Phonetics and Phonology panel 3 Barcelona. Abstract
- Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto, Mª Luisa García Lecumberri, Esther Gómez Lacabex. (2011) Los profesores de lengua extranjera no-nativos y la evaluación de la pronunciación. 29th AESLA Conference University of Salamanca. Abstract