Assistant Professor

Name:	Teresa Quesada Calvo de Mora
Position:	Assistant Professor
Research group:	Bilingüismo: Adquisición y Enseñanza (HUM 058).
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Address:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.  2ª planta (antiguo despacho de Administración)

Teresa Quesada is a full-time Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba (Spain). She holds a BA in English Studies from the University of Granada, where she began her research stage with the MA in Applied English Linguistics and where she continued with her doctoral studies. In December 2021 she defended her doctoral thesis on language acquisition in bilingual adults (Spanish-English) triangulating corpus and experimental data. This thesis was awarded with the mention “International Doctorate” since Teresa did a research stay at the University of Thessaloniki (Greece), which later resulted in a fruitful collaboration with researchers from this university. After her PhD, Teresa started the postdoctoral fellowship "Margarita Salas" and spent a year at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main collaborating with members of the Romance Lab. Her research so far focuses on the acquisition of referring expressions in adult bilinguals, a phenomenon that has caused great interest in the field of Second Language Acquisition due to its complexity and difficulty for bilinguals, and has been carried out using different methodologies: learner corpora (COREFL and CEDEL2) and linguistic experiments with reaction times. She is also currently implementing an eye-tracking experiment, which is the result of her postdoctoral training. The research on this phenomenon and the use of different methodologies is aligned with the research carried out by the members of the ANACOREX project (see below) and BilinguaLab, with whom there is a close collaboration. In addition, this team carries out important dissemination work with the intention of showing society how we research linguistics and bilingualism.

Main publications

• Lozano, C., & Quesada, T. (2023). What corpus data reveal about the Position of Antecedent Strategy (PAS): Anaphora resolution in Spanish monolinguals and L1 English-L2 Spanish bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language, 14: 1246710. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1246710
• Lozano, C., Quesada, T., Papadopoulou, D., & Charatzidis, A. (2023). What do corpus data reveal about anaphora resolution? Spanish vs. Greek and the Type of Topic Hypothesis. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9883
• Quesada, T., & Lozano, C. (2020). Which factors determine the choice of referential expressions in L2 English discourse? A multifactorial study from the COREFL corpus. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(5): 959-986. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000224
• Quesada, T. (2019). Does CLIL exposure affect the acquisition of reference in written narratives? A corpus-based study of L1 Spanish-L2 English. ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, Monográfico, 123-154. https://doi.org/10.12795/elia.mon.2019.i19.06

Research Projects

1. ANACOREX. Anáfora y expresiones referenciales en el bilingüismo: triangulando enfoques de corpus y experimentales (número proyecto: PID2020-113818GB-I00). IP: Cristóbal Jesús Lozano Pozo, Universidad de Granada. Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Cantidad: 96.800€. Periodo: 01/09/2021-31/08/2025. Función: Miembro del equipo de trabajo.

2. IberLab - UGR Crítica, Lenguas y Culturas en Iberoamérica. IP: Ana Gallego Cuiñas, Universidad de Granada. Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Cantidad: 45.000 €. Periodo:  01/01/2019-31/12/2022. Función: Miembro del equipo de trabajo.

3. ¿Cómo conviven varios idiomas en el cerebro? Transfiriendo la investigación desde el laboratorio a la sociedad. IP: María Teresa Bajo Molina, Universidad de Granada. Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Cantidad: 6.000 €. Periodo:  01/07/2020-30/09/2021. Función: Miembro del equipo de trabajo.

4. ANACOR: A corpus-based approach to anaphora resolution in second language acquisition: beyond the interfaces (project no. FFI2016-75106-P). IP: Cristóbal Jesús Lozano Pozo, Universidad de Granada. Entidad financiadora: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Cantidad: 60.500€. Periodo: 30/12/2016-29/06/2021. Función: Miembro del equipo de trabajo.

5. 2 in 1. The priming mind of the bilingual child: Simultaneous acquisition, simultaneous activation (project no. 276-70-027). IP: Sharon Unsworth, University of Radboud. Entidad financiadora: Dutch Research Council. Periodo: 05/2018-02/2019. Función: Investigadora colaboradora.