CURRICULUM VITAE. Name Ana I. Moreno(-Fernández)

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1 Name Ana I. Moreno(-Fernández) CURRICULUM VITAE Work address Instituto de Estudios Documentales sobre Ciencia y Tecnología (IEDCYT) CCHS (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales) Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) C/ Albasanz, Madrid Tel amoreno@cchs.csic.es Web CCHS: Web research group: Date: April 2009 Academic Appointments January Researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Tenured professor of English Philology at the University of León Assistant professor of English Philology at the University of León. Education Ph.D. in English Philology from the University of León in Degree in English Philology from the University of Salamanca (USA) in Diploma in Teacher Training for Primary Education from the University of León in Fields of research and specialization Applied linguistics Discourse analysis and pragmatics Cohesion and coherence Metadiscourse Evaluation in discourse Rhetorical structure Scientific discourse analysis Academic writing in English Research methods in cross-cultural rhetoric Spanish/English cross-cultural rhetoric Needs analysis for EAP Comparable academic Spanish/English corpora compilation

2 Participation in Research groups ACTRES Group (Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Translation), The University of León CoDis Group (Discourse Coherence). Universidad de Salamanca ICCI Group. Scientific Information and Communication through the Internet (CINDOC) ELCI Group. Estudios sobre la Lengua de La Ciencia. Centro de Ciencia Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), CSIC Current Lines of research at the IEDCYT, CCHS, CSIC Intercultural scientific discourse analysis Needs analysis of English and Spanish for academic purposes Comparable academic Spanish/English corpora design Quantitative and qualitative research methods for cross-cultural academic discourse analysis Research projects in this line of research in the last 10 years I work at the Department of Modern Philology at the University of León (León, Spain) within a research group called ACTRES (Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Translation) and participate in the following financed projects: Contrastive Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and English-Spanish Specialised Translation, financed by the regional government (Junta de Castilla y León; BOCyL 29 de enero de 1998; Ref.: LE44/98) Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Specialised Translation: Applications and Tools, financed by the Spanish government (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Plan Nacional de I+D+I; ; Ref: BFF ) Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Specialised translation: Semantico-Functional Areas and Contrastive Rhetoric, financed by the regional government (Junta de Castilla y León; Ref.: CO03/102) Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Specialised translation: Applications and Tools, II, financed by the regional government (Junta de Castilla y León; LE003A05) Contrastive Analysis and English-Spanish Specialised translation: Applications, financed by the Spanish government (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC). Dirección General de Investigación; Ref.: HUM ) Refereed journal articles in this line of research Moreno, A.I, (1994). Estudio comparativo de enlaces interoracionales causales en dos corpus. Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, 2: Moreno, A.I. (1995). Causal Intersentential Relations: A discourse as process view. Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, 3: (1995).

3 Moreno, A.I. (1997). Genre constraints across languages: causal metatext in Spanish and English Research Articles" ESP Journal, 16 (3): Moreno, A.I. (1998). The explicit signalling of premise-conclusion sequences in research articles: a contrastive framework. Text, 18 (4): (1998). Moreno, A. I. (2003). Matching Theoretical Descriptions of Discourse and Practical Applications to Teaching: The Case of Causal Metatext. English for Specific Purposes 22: Moreno, A. I. (2003). The Role of Cohesive Devices as Textual Constraints on Relevance: A Discourse-as-process View. International Journal of English Studies. Vol. 3 (1): Moreno, A. I. (2004). Retrospective Labelling in Premise-Conclusion Metatext: An English-Spanish Contrastive Study of Research Articles on Business and Economics. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Vol. 3: Moreno, A.I. (2004). Análisis de necesidades para el aula de lengua inglesa en Filología Inglesa: un estudio de caso. Monográfico. BELLS (Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies), vol 12. The Foreign Languages in Higher and Adult Education. Moreno, A.I. & Suárez, L. (2008). A study of critical attitude across English and Spanish academic book reviews. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7(1): pp Moreno, A. I. & Suárez, L. (2008). A framework for comparing evaluation resources across academic texts. TextandTalk, 28(6): Refereed book chapters in this line of research Connor, Ulla M. & Moreno, Ana I. (2005). Tertium Comparationis: A vital component in contrastive research methodology. In P. Bruthiaux, D. Atkinson, W. G. Eggington, W. Grabe, & V. Ramanathan (eds), Directions in Applied Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Kaplan. Clevedon,, pp England: Multilingual Matters. Moreno, A.I. (2006). Bridging the gap between coherence and cohesion: which cohesive devices are really textual? In Carretero, Marta; Hidalgo Downing, Laura; Lavid, Julia; Martínez Caro, Elena; Neff, Joanne; Pérez de Ayala, Soledad, and Sánchez-Pardo, Esther (eds), in A Pleasure of Life in Words. A Festchrift for Angela Downing, pp Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Moreno, A.I. (2008). The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies. In Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, and William Rozycki (eds), Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric, pp Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Suárez-Tejerina, L. & Moreno, A.I. (2008). The rhetorical structure of literary academic book reviews: An English-Spanish cross-cultural approach. In Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, and William Rozycki (eds), Contrastive Rhetoric: Reaching to Intercultural Rhetoric, pp Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Moreno, A.I. & Suárez, L. (forthcoming). Critical comments and rhetorical structure: A study of academic book reviews in English and Spanish, in Hyland, K. and G. Diani (eds). Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan.

4 Moreno, A. I. (forthcoming). Researching English for Research Purposes (ERP) from a Spanish perspective, in Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido, Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira and Inmaculada Fortanet- Gómez (eds), English for Professional and Academic Purposes. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi. Moreno, A. I. & Suárez, L, (forthcoming). Signalling responsibility for writers critical comments: an English-Spanish cross-cultural study of literary scholarly book reviews, in FranÇoise Salager- Meyer and Beverly A. Lewin (eds). Scholarly Criticism. Bern, Suiza: Peter Lang. Conference Proceedings López Folgado, V. and Moreno Fernández, A.I. (1992). Los eslabones lógicos, conectores discursivos y análisis de errores. Actas del IX Congreso Nacional AESLA, España. Moreno, A.I. (1994). Pros y Contras de la Introducción del Estudio de Casos en el Aula de Inglés Empresarial. Lenguas para Fines Específicos (IV): (1994). España. Moreno, A.I. (1996) Análisis de demandas para el aula de inglés empresarial: de la teoría a la práctica. Lenguas para Fines Específicos (V): España. Moreno, A.I. (1998). A simple model of text structure: The analysis of an ESP text. Lenguas para Fines Específicos (VI): (1998). España. Moreno, A.I. (1999). How do Spanish and English Academics reduce the force of their conclusions? Actas del XXIII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN. Universidad de León. Moreno, A.I. (2003). What textbooks on Academic Writing do not say about causal metatext: let texts speak for themselves. Las Lenguas en un Mundo Global, Jaén: Universidad de Jaén / AESLA Moreno, A.I. (2005). Perceiving Coherence and Text Structure: Which Cohesive Ties are Really Textual? Betten, Anne/ Dannerer, Monika (eds.) Dialogue Analysis IX. Dialogue in Literature and the Media. Selected Papers from the 9th IADA Conference, Salzburg 2003 Part I: Literature, Part II: Media. Tübingen: Niemeyer Moreno, A.I. and Suárez, L. (2005). The role of evaluation in the rhetorical structure of academic book reviews in English. Actas del IV Congreso de AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos) Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura. Moreno, A.I. (2006). Where do academics draw their conclusions from? An English-Spanish contrastive study of research articles on Business and Economics. In Mourón Figueroa, Cristina & Moralejo Gárate, Teresa (eds). Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Santiago de Compostela, septiembre, 2005, Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Moreno, A.I.and Suárez, L. (2006). Towards a valid and meaningful cross-cultural comparison of evaluation strategies. In Pérez-Llantada Auría, Plo Alastrué, Ramón, and Neumann, Claus Peter (eds.), Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos). Zaragoza: AELFE/Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza

5 Suárez, L. and Moreno, A.I. (2006). How do English and Spanish writers share their praise and criticism of the books under review in literary academic journal book reviews? In Pérez- Llantada Auría, Plo Alastrué, Ramón, and Neumann, Claus Peter (eds.), Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos). Zaragoza: AELFE/Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. Suárez, L. and Moreno, A.I. (2006). The rhetorical structure of academic journal book reviews: a crosslinguistic and cross-disciplinary approach. In Pérez-Llantada Auría, Plo Alastrué, Ramón, and Neumann, Claus Peter (eds.), Actas del V Congreso Internacional AELFE (Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos). Zaragoza: AELFE/Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. Books Moreno, A.I. (1996). Estudio Contrastivo Inglés-Español de la Expresión de las Relaciones de Coherencia Causal Interoracional: el Artículo Académico sobre Economía y Empresa. Tesis doctorales (1996). Universidad de León. Moreno, A.I. & Colwell, V. (eds.) (2001). Perspectivas Recientes sobre el Discurso / Recent Perspectives on Discourse. Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) / Secretariado de Publicaciones y Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de León. León: Universidad de León. Research scholarships Morley Scholarship from The English Language Institute at The University of Michigan. July-August Scholarship from the European Union undef the Improving Human Potential programme to carry out a course of high specialisation in Corpus Linguistics at the Tuscan Word Centre in Italy. October Scholarship from the Indianapolis Centre for Intercultural Communication to carry out research. July Selected stays abroad as a visiting scholar for research purposes Centre for Advanced Research in English y Proyecto COBUILD, University of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK, 12-31/07/1992. Centre for Advanced Research in English y Proyecto COBUILD, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 04-16/10/1993 English Language Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, EE.UU. July-August, Department of English and Media Studies, The Nottingham-Trent University, Nottingham, UK, 16-30/07/1996

6 Program in English as a Second Language, Penn State University. State Collage, USA, five week in July-August Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College, The University of London. London, UK. 5/07-1/08/1999 Indiana Centre for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University-Perdue University, Indianapolis, USA, 5/07-03/08/2002 Honors and Distinctions Special mention (Premio Extraordinario) from the University of León for my tesina Special mention (Premio Extraordinario) from the University of León for my doctoral thesis Runner-up to Horovitz Prize from the international journal English for Specific Purposes Journal for the best article in volume 22 (2004). This journal is in the SSCI. Two sexenios (each sexenio means six years of research productivity assessed positively by the CNEAI (National Committee for the Evaluation of Research Activities) Selected keynote, plenary, featured, or invited presentations, seminars or workshops Genre constraints across languages: causal metatext in Spanish and English RAs. Seminar at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan Genre constraints across languages: causal metatext in Spanish and English Research Articles. Plenary presentation at the 8th Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop. Nottingham.UK. July, 1996 Contrastive Rhetoric: Writing across cultures. Invited presentation at Birkbeck Collage. London. May, 2002 The cause-and/or-effect analytical essay: focusing on effects. Invited presentation at the Centre for English Language Education (CELE). The University of Nottingham. May, 2002 Needs Analysis and ELT: A case study. Invited presentation. ICIC (Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication). Indiana University-Perdue University in Indianapolis. July, 2002 What textbooks on academic writing do not say about the expression of causal relations: let texts speak for themselves. Invited presentation. ICIC (Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication). Indiana University-Perdue University in Indianapolis. July, 2002 The importance of comparable data in cross-cultural studies. Plenary presentation at the Second Annual Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Written Discourse. Indianapolis. July, 2005 Perceiving text structure in an ESP text. 2º Seminario Internacional de Lengua Inglesa con Fines Académicos y Profesionales- LIFAP2. Invited presentation at the Departament de Filología Anglesa i Romànica, Universitat Jaume I. February, 2005 The role of evaluation in the rhetorical structure of academic book reviews: a Spanish-English crosscultural approach. Invited presentation at The Conference in Honor of John Swales. English Language Institue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, EE.UU. June 2006

7 Towards a valid and meaningful cross-cultural comparison of evaluation strategies. Invited presentation in round table on Critical voices in Spanish-English written academic discourse. Theoretical and Applied Perspectives at the V Congreso de AELFE (Asociación Española de Lenguas para Fines Específicos). Universidad de Zaragoza. September, 2006 What do we really know about cultural differences in written communication? A realistic review of the contrastive rhetoric literature Invited plenary presentation at Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2007 on Building bridges, Constructing Networks. Madrid, 26th October 2007 Methods in intercultural rhetoric research. Invited pre-conference workshop. Fourth Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse. Indianapolis. Indiana. EE.UU. 3 June, 2008 Es el discurso científico universal en su contenido y forma? Conferencia y coloquio en el VIII Semana de la Ciencia en Madrid. Madrid, 18 November, Discourse Analysis in Action: Analysing Academic Discourses from a Spanish-English Cross-cultural Perspective. Invited talk at the Seminario Permanente del Departamento de Estudios Ingleses, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. 24th April paper presentations in Conferences (15 National and 13 International) (last one in JACA, December 2008) Memberships on editorial boards Ibérica (AELFE) Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas Supervision of Ph.D. Dissertations Author: Lorena Suárez Tejerina. Title: Modes of evaluation and rhetorical patterns: a contrastive study of English and Spanish book reviews Programme: Quality Doctoral Programme in Intercultural Studies and Translation. Institution: Dpto. Filología Moderna. Universidad de León. Grade: SOBRESALIENTE Cum Laude. Special mention: European Doctor Date: 2006 Ph.D. Dissertation in process: Title: Rhetorical conventions in research articles on biomedicine: an English-Spanish cross-cultural approach.

8 Supervision of other research projects Supervisor of three doctoral research projects and one tesina (equivalent to a master s thesis) Doctoral courses taught at the University of León : Textual Cohesion in English : Textual Cohesion in English : Métodos y Herramientas de Investigación Filológica : Métodos de Investigación en Estudios Contrastivos Inglés-Español : Procedimientos de Investigación en Estudios Contrastivos Inglés-Español : Procedimientos de Investigación para el Contraste Lingüístico Inglés-Español : Procedimientos de Investigación para el Contraste Textual Inglés-Español : Procedimientos de Investigación para el Contraste Textual Inglés-Español Professional responsibilities/consultations External examiner of 5 Ph.D. dissertations, 3 Master s dissertations and 13 doctoral research projects Peer reviewer of journal articles for Text, Text&Talk and IBERICA, and a collective volume on Interpersonality in Discourse Professional memberships AELFE: European Association for Languages for Specific Purposes AESLA: Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics AEDEAN: Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies TESOL: Teaching English to Students of Other Languages IATEFL: International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. (BESIG) Research Evaluation Expert assessor for the CNEAI (Comisión Nacional de Evaluación de la Actividad Investigadora) to assess proposals for National Research Projects. April