Mª Luisa Roca-Varela obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2006. In October 2006, she was admitted to the Ph.D Programme Current Trends in English Studies and its Applications and specialised in the English Linguistics branch. In 2008, after completing one year of postgraduate courses (October 2006 - June 2007) and one year of research (October 2007- June 2008), she defended her research work entitled A Study of Learner Language. A Preliminary Analysis of the Use of English-Spanish False Friends by Spanish Students of English. The four-year FPU research grant she obtained (September 2008) will allow her to work on a doctoral dissertation on false friends under the supervision of Dr. Ignacio Palacios. Furthermore, she collaborated actively in the organisation of two international conferences: New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3 (NRG3: 17th - 20th July 2005) and the First International Conference on English Language Teaching and Learning (ICELTL1: 10th -13th September 2008). She is currently involved in the CMC_E project funded by the European Commission.

Contact information:

Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa

Facultade de Filoloxía

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Avda. de Castelao, s/n

15782 Santiago de Compostela , SPAIN

E-mail: luissa10@yahoo.com