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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Don't miss these seminars! Registration is free but mandatory ✏️

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Marta Sánchez-Cócera @martasanchezcocera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Still thinking about Patricia Bou Franch's wonderful keynote at the 6th @upcelconference.bsky.social. Her insights on medical gaslighting and epistemic activism were incredibly thought-provoking. It was a true pleasure being by her side, chairing such an engaging session. Thank you, Patricia!

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

To conclude, Erika Sajtós from Pázmány Péter Catholic University talks about "Voice Onset Time and Voicing Effect size in two ethnic varieties: Pākehā and Māori New Zealand English"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

All the way from @uio.no, Connor Bradley presents "Descendants of Germania and Beyond: A Dialectometric Geography of the Medieval North"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Then, María Albalate Martínez from @uam.es discusses the notion of "Categorizing Suicide Notes as a Text Type"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Nadia M. Arias González from @usaloficial.bsky.social presents her research: "Between Panels, Across Borders: Graphic Narratives of Migration and their Pedagogical Potential in EFL Education"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Mario González Pinto from @usaloficial.bsky.social presents "Picturebooks about Migration: Applicability in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

From Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Alícia Gual Miró's talk is titled: "Teaching ‘have/get’ Causatives: An Inductive Eclectic Approach"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Luca Leoni from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski” presents his research: "Cultural Comparison of Trump’s and Meloni’s Rhetoric at CPAC"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Next, Jesús Vázquez Sanz from @ucm.es discusses "Exploring the Pragmatic Role of Speech Acts and Implicatures: The Sexist and Gendered Representation of Women in Written Advertising"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Then, Jianhua Chen from @uam.es talked about "Verbal Irony in Stand-up Comedy: A Gender and Culture Comparative Analysis"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

First, Irune Fernández Montes & Maria Gkoutziomitrou from @unicomplutense presented their paper on "Revisiting compliment responses through a linguo-cultural lens: From English to Greek and Spanish"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today we had exciting panels about Intercultural & Critical Pragmatics, Multimodal approaches to EFL, Text typology & Language Variation and Evolution

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

That's a wrap for UPCEL2026! Thank you all for choosing us and we hope to see you very soon 🫂

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Alba Ansó-Millán @ansomillan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An honour to have presented at @upcelconference.bsky.social ! ✨

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today is the last day of UPCEL2026. Here you have the fascinating panel that will close this year's conference. See you a bit!

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Today we conclude with Historical tour about the heritage of the Spanish Civil War on the university campus delivered by Professor Francisco J. Moreno Martín. We hope you enjoyed and got to learn a bit about the history of the campus!

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Antonio Moreno Jurado (@uneduniv.bsky.social & Punt d'Estudi) presents his research on: "Redefining 'Native': How EFL Students Blend and Perceive Different English Varieties"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Lastly, Claudia Alea Parrondo from @ucm.es presents her work titled "Is interdisciplinarity a journey or a battle? Applying Cognitive Metaphor Theory in Literary Studies"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ben-Yelles Lynda Chahinez from Djillali Liabes University Sidi Bel Abbes presents "The Linguistic Market of Algerian Higher Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Language Choices and Symbolic Power"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

From Université de Tours, Isaiah Timberlake presents his work on "(Zoo)logical garden: a constructional comparison of curtates and their corresponding NPs"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Laura Soriano-Gonzalez from @ua.es presents "An Exploratory Study of AI in EFL Oral Proficiency Evaluation"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Carmen Sumillera Iglesias from @usaloficial.bsky.social discusses "The gap between language policies and language practices in South African higher education"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Next, Salma Errami from @unirioja.bsky.social presents her work on "Lexical Blends Across Distant Domains and Multiple Inputs from a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective — A Cognitive Approach"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're also having a panel on Bilingualism & Language Policy, Natalia García Martínez from @ucm.es talks about "Digital Tools and Textbooks in Madrid Bilingual Programmes: A Systematic Literature Review"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're starting again with a panel on Cognitive linguistics. First, Elif Kiraz Yildiz from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (@Uni-Freiburg.de): "Anger Across Languages: Turkish–English Differences in Lexicon, Syntax, Metaphor"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our second great keynote speaker is Dr. Francisco Lorenzo Bergillos from @pablodeolavide.upo.es. The title of the talk is "Bilingualism and social inequality: notes on linguistic capital"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our poster session is ON! Reach out to our early career researchers to delve into their work.

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

From @ucm.es, Patricia Avilés Moreno presents her talk titled "Integrating Artificial Intelligence to Foster Reading Comprehension in Secondary and Vocational Training Education"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Finally, Marina González de San Pedro Jiménez from @unirioja.bsky.social introduces "The effects of CLIL on young multilingual learners' lexical output: A cross-linguistic analysis"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Aitor Tejeda Pablos from @ucm.es presents his research on "The Effects of a Non-Native Family Environment on English Second Language Learning"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Montserrat Camarasa Llácer (@ucm) talks about "Biases around reproductive rights in the opinions of the United States’ Supreme Court: A discourse-historical approach"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Sandra Abad-Bataller from @ua.es talks about "Authenticity metrics in ESP: A statistical and perceptual comparison of AI-Generated and traditional resources"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Gina Grace Arnold from Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (@UICBarcelona.bsky.social) discusses "Pre-Primary and Primary Teachers’ Perspectives on Tasks in CLIL Contexts"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Marija Miletić from Kyung Hee University shares her research on "A Corpus-Based Study of What If Constructions"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Blanca Fernández Soriano from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (@ucm.es) presents "Coding the colonial: Methodological challenges in building a corpus of 19th-century women's letters from the Australian diaspora"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Next, Claudia Medrano González (@uahes.bsky.social & Vilnius University) presents her talk titled "(Re)territorialising Fem(me)infinity: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Young Adult Erotic Romance Advertising"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Veronika Prokopová from @usc.gal talks about "Translanguaging in Foreign Language Classes: Teachers’ Reported Practices and Beliefs in the Czech Context"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

First, Maria Bîrlea from @usaloficial.bsky.social is presenting "Fathers don’t cook: Perpetuating gender stereotypes in migration-themed picturebooks"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Good morning, all! We're starting today with two panels on (Critical) Discourse Studies and Applied Linguistics

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Due to the consequences of the tragic train accident that occurred in Spain on January 18th, Francisco Lorenzo will NOT be able to attend the conference in person. Thus, today’s plenary talk will be delivered online. Thank you for your understanding.

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

From @unizar.es, we have Luis Martínez-Kleiser Magaña and his topic "Analysing recontextualised knowledge for adolescents: bringing multimodal scientific discourse into the EFL classroom"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Starting the panel of English for Specific Purposes & Professional Competence, here we have María Dolores Camacho Díaz from the @upm.es with a presentation named "Bridging Abstract Language and Technical Application: A Gamified Approach to Teaching Metaphors in Aeronautical ESP"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This panel concludes with Marianne Lorraine Samiling and her talk: "Trilingual “Code-Switching”: Role Of English in Second-Generation Filipino Immigrants in Madrid, Spain"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Next, Maria Gkoutziomitrou from presents her research: "From Standard to Spectrum: Fostering University Students' Attitudes through Explicit Instruction on Language Variation"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We're starting again with a panel on Sociolinguistics with Julia Gema Pérez Gallardo. She is presenting "The English language: To what extent does it become a tool of social status?"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The last presenter of the Pragmatics & Discourse Studies panel is Océane Smith-Médion from the Laboratoire Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) and will talk about "A Study of the Use of the Prefix RE- and Its Presuppositions in a corpus of U.S. Presidential Campaign Speeches

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Next, Santiago Iñarrea from @usaloficial.bsky.social and his presentation "Comics as Multimodal Texts in EFL: Developing Communicative Competence through Flipped Classroom Approaches"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Yue Sun from from @ucm.es presents her work titled "The Influence of Proficiency on the Receptive Pragmatic Competence of Spanish Foreign Language Learners in Other-initiated Repair"

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UPCEL2026 @upcelconference.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sashka Jovanovska and Ana Koceva from Goce Delcev University present her research on "The Pragmatics of Sorry: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Macedonian Online Communication"

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