Marlén Izquierdo Fernández

Marlén Izquierdo is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (EHU), Spain, where she has worked since 2013. Marlén Izquierdo received her PhD from University of León in 2008. She has worked for three different public universities: University of León, University of Cantabria and EHU. Her research focuses on corpus linguistics and language education, contrastive linguistics, and learner corpora in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Her work in these areas includes competitive research projects, publications, and editorial activities. She has three teaching periods (2006-2011), (2011-2016) and (2016-2021) granted by the Vicerrectorado de Profesorado (EHU) and teaching and research periods C1, C2, B1, and B2 granted by UNIBASQ and Consejo Social (EHU). Likewise, she holds two six-year research tenure tracks (2007-2014 and 2016-2021) granted by the National Committee for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI).

Dr Izquierdo has participated in competitive research projects at national and regional levels. From 2019 to 2026 she coordinated the participation of the EHU in the MUST Project, an international Project led by Professor Granger and Dr Lefer at Université Catolique de Louvaine, Belgium.

Marlén Izquierdo has delivered conference presentations across Spain and Europe. She has edited two volumes (SCL113 and SCL125) for the distinguished Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series by John Benjamins. She authors research articles in high-impact journals including English for Specific Purposes, Languages in Contrast, Journal of Pragmatics, Meta, to name a few, and she also authors book chapters by renown publishers such as John Benjamins, Peter Lang, or Cambridge.

She has been a visiting researcher at universities in Europe and Canada, including University of Bath, University of Birmingham, University of Dublin City University, University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of Koblenz, and University of Ottawa.

From 2023 to 2026, she has coordinated the panel on ‘Corpus linguistics, contrastive studies and translation’ for the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO in its Spanish acronym), and serves on the editorial board of the Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCl) journal. She has been an AELINCO member since its foundation in 2009, and of the Learner Corpus Research Association (international) since 2020. She also acts regularly as a reviewer for academic journals, monographics, and conference calls for papers.

Research Interests

Corpus linguistics in language education, learner corpus research, CLIL, contrastive linguistics.