I am Language Tutor in Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. I teach Spanish language for Ab-Initio and Post-A Level students. I convene and co-ordinate SN1601 and SN1701 modules, which are designed to improve students´ oral, grammar, reading and writing skills.
My qualifications include a Bachelor’s Degree in Translation and Interpreting Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master’s degree in Spanish Language Teaching, from Universidad Nebrija, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics focused on Intercultural Pragmatics, also from Universidad Nebrija, for which I was awarded a Cum Laude.
Before joining the department at Royal Holloway in 2021, I have held posts in Higher Education in China, at Heilongjiang International University, and in the United Kingdom, at the University of East Anglia and at Queen’s University Belfast. I also collaborate as a Master’s dissertation supervisor at Universidad Nebrija. Outside academia, I have contributed to language testing and student placement by working alongside the Instituto Cervantes where I was a member of the examination board of the DELE exams in Norwich 2017 and Beijing 2018.
I am an active researcher within Hispanic Studies. I have published a corpus of written and oral Chinese academic emails in TalkBank and several articles related to Sociolinguistics, Pragmalinguistics and Emotions in Peninsular Spanish and Chinese language. My research is focused on students’ pragmatic competence and the expression of disagreement in their L1 (Spanish/Chinese/English) and L2 (Spanish). I am particularly interested in students sociopragmatic knowledge in a digital environment in an academic context, more specifically in the correctness and adequacy of students’ communication with their tutors/lecturers via email. I also investigate the different strategies used in an unequal situation (student/lecturer) in order to perform the speech act of disagreement in their first and second language.
I am also part of the research group of the Emilia project, which examines aspects such as the expression of emotion in Spanish as a language of migration, the self-perception of migrants when expressing emotions, working memory, intelligence and emotional acculturation in relation to their language competence in Spanish and the degree of identity with the new language. More information: https://www.proyectoemilia.es/ Apart from studies related to Linguistics, I am also particularly interested in IT skills associated with Education and Audio-visual Translation.
Ainciburu, C. and Rodríguez Velasco, D. (2021). La interculturalidad del español: los casos de los saludos y las direcciones. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 48(2): 19-31.
Rodríguez Velasco, D., Liu, X. K. and Ainciburu, M. C. (2021). You would not want to be the murderer of our dreams and options, right?: An Analysis of the communication between university students and their professors on the web 2.0. International Review of Pragmatics, 13(2), 265–286.
Rodríguez Velasco, D. and Liu, X. (2021). Immigration and academia: the exhibition of emotions in the management of academic failure in native and non-native university students in Chinese and Spanish. Tonos Digital, 40: 1-31.
Rodríguez Velasco, D. and Ainciburu, C. (2020). Don’t you like me? Am I ugly? Or don’t I speak well? Analysis of disagreement and emotional exhibition in the emails of Chinese university students of Spanish. RLA. Revista de Lingüística teórica y Aplicada, 58(1): 37-63.
Rodríguez Velasco, D. (2019). Análisis de los elementos pragmáticos en la interacción escrita académica: el caso de los correos electrónicos de universitarios norteamericanos. Revista Nebrija De Lingüística Aplicada a La Enseñanza De Lenguas, 13(26): 198-225.
Rodríguez Velasco, D. and Liu, X. (2019). Nebrija-WOCAE (Written and Oral Chinese Academic Emails) Corpus. Retrieved from TalkBank
