Research staff

María Martínez Adrián

María Martínez Adrián is currently an Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country where she received her PhD. in English Philology in 2006 with a thesis entitled “The role of the L2 in the acquisition of L3 German word order”. She was also a teacher at the Public University of Navarre for two years. She has been a visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (Germany) and at the University of Iowa (USA). Her current teaching involves undergraduate courses in English Language and Linguistics in the B.A. in English Studies, as well as postgraduate courses in the Master’s program in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings. At present, she is a member of the Academic Commission of the MA programme Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings, a member of the FIA commission of AEDEAN- Spanish Association for English and American Studies and an assessor for the Spanish State Research Agency. From 2016 to 2020 she was the Coordinator of the Panel Language Teaching and Acquisition of AEDEAN, from 2020 to 2022 a member of the AESLA Scientific Committee, and from 2016 to 2024 the Academic Secretary of the Department of English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies at the UPV/EHU.

Research Interests

  • Cross-linguistic influence in L2 and L3 acquisition
  • The acquisition of morpho-syntactic features from the generative perspective in CLIL and  NON-CLIL settings
  • The acquisition of productive and receptive vocabulary
  • The oral presentation as a learning tool
  • The use of communication strategies
  • Interaction and focus on form
  • The application of form-focused instruction in English pronunciation

Projects

Books

María Martínez Adrián, M. Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2019) International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. ‘Special issue:L1 use in content-based and CLIL settings’. Pub.:Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: .  Abstract || PDF
Maria Juncal Gutierrez Mangado, María Martínez Adrián, Francisco Gallardo-del-Puerto. (2019) Cross-linguistic influence: From empirical evidence to classroom practice. Pub.:Springer. ISBN: 978-3-030-22065-5.  Abstract
María del Pilar García Mayo, M.Junkal Gutierrez-Mangado, María Martínez Adrián. (2013) Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition(Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics award 2014). Pub.:John Benjamins. ISBN: 978 90 272 0525 4.  Abstract || PDF
María Martínez Adrián. (2006) El papel de la segunda lengua en la adquisición del orden de palabras del alemán. Pub.:Universidad del País Vasco. ISBN: 84-8373-852-X.  Abstract

Journal Papers

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Conference Papers