Begoña Belles Fortuño

Begoña Bellés Fortuño​, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Spain, where she lectures English Studies degree students as well as in the Health Sicences Faculty to Medical and Nursing undergrad students, she aslo supervises MA projects in the Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching Master degree. An active member of the Interuniversity Institute of Modern Applied Languages (IULMA), a research institute that serves as a bridge between language in the different specialised domains and society.

Since the beginning of her academic career, she has been immersed in Discourse Analysis research through corpus linguistics methods. Pivotal for her corpus linguistic profile were her two research stays at the ELI (English Language Institute) at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) in 2006 and 2007 (as a predoctoral fellow and as a Morley Scholar visitor, respectively) tutorised by Professor John M. Swales. There, she worked together with the MICASE team, a pioneering research team that generated one on the largest on-line English spoken academic corpus in the world, still a refence nowadays. She specialised there on the analysis of academic genres and different sui generis features that characterised discourse by comparing traits between English and Spanish corpora. Thus, her PhD thesis won a research prize awarded by AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) in 2008 with the title: Discourse markers within the university lecture genre: A contrastive study between Spanish and North-American lectures. Other research stays as a visiting scholar include universities such as Midsweden University (Sweden), Katolische UniversitätEichstaett (Germany) or the University
of Edinburgh (UK).

She has participated in several projects with the GENTT group analysing multilingual communication as it takes place in the bilingual region of Comunidad Valenciana in patient-doctor encounters as well other projects focusing on the improvement of the Informed Consent (IC) genre. Some projects include: Creation of resources for teaching communicative skills in medical and healthcare fields funded by the Valencian Government and Creation of multilingual resources for improving doctor-patient communication in Public Health Services funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. She has also directed the project Development of online multilingual resources for improving the Informed consent as a multimodal communication act, funded by Universitat Jaume I R+D+I programme. She has run a regional autonomic project with the title: Clinical communication improvements in the Valencian Community: Guidelines for the adaptation of curricular design at a tertiary level in the Health Sciences.

She is the Language Value journal Editor-In Chief and one of the executive directors of IBERICA journal. She has reviewed articles for JEAP​, System or Language and Communication among other journals. Recent publications include the article Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leaflets​, SYSTEM Vol. 77 (2018), Evaluative language in medical discourse: A contrastive study between English and Spanish university lectures, LANGUAGES IN CONTRAST 18(2) (2018), the chapter Popular Science Articles vs Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education in Ordoñez-Lopez, P. & Edo-Marzá, N. (2016) Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings​, Multilingual Matters or the article Accommodating the Syllabus to Visually Impaired Students in the English Language Classroom: Challenges and Concerns, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES 21 (1) (2021).
In the educational side, she is the director of CLHIOS Innovation Educational Group leading an educational project on CLIL/EMI in the university classroom with a multidisciplinary team of content lecturers from different disciplines of the STEM including Health Sciences, Biology, Engineering and Management and Public Administration. 

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