PhD students

Kevin Iglesias-Diéguez

Kevin Iglesias-Diéguez is a PhD student supervised by Dr. María Martínez-Adrián and Dr. Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He has obtained a degree in English Studies (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) and holds an MA degree in English Teacher Training for Vocational, Secondary, Post-Secondary and Language Education (University of Salamanca, USAL), as well as an MA degree in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU). His PhD dissertation focuses on the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and vocabulary acquisition in both written and oral collaborative tasks.

Twitter (𝕏): @kevin_igle

Research Interests

  • Acquisition of vocabulary
  • Form-focused instruction (FFI)
  • Effects of metalinguistic awareness and language analytic ability
  • Collaborative tasks & Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

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