José Ramón Varela Pérez works as a Lecturer on English language at the Translation and Philology Department (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona). He is working on a Ph.D dissertation on negation in contemporary British English. He is co-author of Diccionario de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Lenguas (Madrid: CLÉ International, 2007). His publications include articles on variation and on-going grammatical change in contemporary English, as well as on TEFL. Among the research projects in which he has taken part we can mention VALAL and SALA (on the effects of stay abroad on students’ language acquisition) and SULEC (on the compilation of a corpus of learner English). His research interests include the study of variation and on-going grammatical change in English, word formation, historical linguistics, translation and SLA.

Contact information:

Departament de Traducció i Filologia

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

La Rambla 30-32

Barcelona, SPAIN

E-mail: jose.varela@upf.edu