Biodata of Alberto Hijazo Gascón

Alberto Hijazo-Gascón holds a degree in Hispanic Philology (University of Zaragoza), an MA in Applied Linguistics and Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Nebrija University) and a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics (University of Zaragoza). He is currently an Associate Professor in Spanish Language at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has international experience, through his previous academic post in the United Kingdom and invited research visits at different academic institutions in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and the US. He has been part of funded projects in the UK, Greece and Spain.

 His research area is Applied Linguistics, in particular Second Language Acquisition, from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective, focusing on motion event typology and conceptual metaphor, mainly in Spanish as a Second Language. In his studies, the role of conceptual transfer between the L1 and the L2 is examined. He also researched on Forensic Linguistics and Interpreting. His publications include the monograph: Moving Across Languages: Motion events in Spanish as a Second language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2021) and numerous peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, Pragmatics and Society, IRAL, among others. He has been invited as a plenary speaker to conferences in the Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain.

He has also developed a portfolio of impact, transfer of knowledge and professional enterprise activities. He has published dissemination articles for Archiletras, The Conversation and Heraldo de Aragón. He participated as a guest speaker in professional forums such as ProfeDeELE for teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language and the webinars of the Association of Police and Court Interpreters of the UK. He has been a consultant on intercultural communication for private companies and developed professional training for police officers and interpreters in the UK.