Yolanda Joy Calvo Benzies
Yolanda Joy Calvo Benzies is currently a Tenured Contract Senior Lecturer (Profesora Titular Laboral) within the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classic Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). Since 2016, she has been working at the Faculty of Tourism where she currently teaches several English for Specific Purposes courses and is the Vicedean of Coordination and Projection. From February 2020-February 2024, she was one of the Erasmus+ exchange coordinators for the Faculty of Tourism and oversaw incoming students, staff visits and the Erasmus+ Traineeship KA131 programme for outgoing students. She is the coordinator of the modules English 1 and English 3 (degree in Tourism and double degrees in Tourism and Business Administration / Economics). Yolanda has been invited to teach some teacher innovation courses and seminars on: a) giving presentations in English at international conferences (University of Castilla la Mancha, Extremadura 2021), b) the teaching of English pronunciation (University of Santiago de Compostela, 2019; University of la Rioja, 2021) and, more recently, on c) the use of AI tools in the language classroom (University of la Rioja, 2024; University of Santiago de Compostela, 2024). She has actively taken part in several teacher innovation projects (either as IP or member) at the University of the Balearic Islands and the University of la Rioja. Her main research interests are language teaching (particularly in the teaching of pronunciation and speaking), the teaching of English for Specific Purposes (especially English for Tourism), new varieties of English (ELF, EIL) and the use of ICTs in the language classroom (mobile apps, social networks, AI, videos, podcasts, Moodle tools etc). Yolanda has presented papers in over 50 international conferences and has some experience in the organisation of conferences. Yolanda has published several articles in refereed journals (Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada (RAEL), Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI), Language Value, Human Review, Greta Journal, Language Studies Working Papers (LSWP), Odisea, etc). She also has published quite a few book chapters in international publishing houses (Peter Lang, Springer, Palgrave MacMillan, Dykinson). From February 2013-May 2013, Yolanda carried out a three-month research stay at the University of Reading at the Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics and in February-March 2020 she did some research at the Universitat Jaume I with Mercedes Sanz Gil. She was an Assistant Editor for two important Spanish journals: Atlantis (2019-2024) and RAEL (2017-2023). Regarding her educational background, she obtained a BA in English Language and Literature in 2008 and an MA in English Linguistics in 2010, both at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She defended her PhD dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez in January 2016, obtaining the highest grade (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Her dissertation was devoted to the role that pronunciation has in EFL classes and teaching materials in Spain. It can be accessed here.
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| Contact information: |
| Departamento de Filología Española, Moderna y Clásica |
| Facultad deTurismo - Edificio Arxiduc Lluís Salvador - Office 5 |
| Universidad de las Islas Baleares |
| Carretera de Valdemossa, km. 7,5 |
| 07122 Palma de Mallorca , SPAIN |
| Telephone number: 0034 971259917 |
| E-mail: yolandajoy.calvo@uib.es |
