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About

Raquel Navas is an Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies and joined 糖心TV in 2014. Before that, she worked as a language tutor in Spanish and Catalan at the University of Birmingham and taught Spanish language and culture at Aston University.

Raquel took her degree in Hispanic Philology at the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona and she successfully completed the postgraduate courses in Spanish and Catalan as foreign languages. She also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Birmingham and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Raquel also completed an MPhil in Applied Linguistics to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Spain, with a thesis entitled The Linguistic Landscape as a tool to promote connections with the target language and culture. This dissertation won the ASELE (Asociaci贸n para la ense帽anza del espa帽ol como lengua extranjera) Research Prize for best MA Thesis in 2020.

Research interests

She is interested in the field of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition and, in particular, in the use of the linguistic landscape as a tool in the Foreign Language Classroom. Raquel is currently coordinating the and is interested in the presence of Spanish in the streets of the UK in order to (1) analyse its possibilities as an additional source of input in second language acquisition and (2) examine whether its uses or presence will vary after Brexit.

Administrative roles

School of Modern Languages and Cultures Student Voice Lead since 2025.

Hispanic Studies SSLC (Student Staff Liaison Committee) rep since 2023.

Hispanic Studies Year Abroad Coordinator (2021-2025)

Hispanic Studies Year Abroad Assessment, British Council and work placements (2017- 2025)

SMLC First year Exams Secretary (2018-2019)

Hispanic Studies (2016-2019)

Widening Participation Officer (2014-2016)

Publications

BOOKS:

. Colecci贸n monograf铆as de ASELE, 11. ASELE, 2021

. Madrid: Instituto Cervantes & ELEUK, 2024. Co-ed with Vicens Colomer i Dom铆nguez & Leticia Villamediana Gonz谩lez.

ARTICLES :

鈥淭he Linguistic Landscape in Spanish in the UK鈥�. Doblele: Revista de lengua y literatura, 7, pp. 67-79, 2021. DOI:  

"The street as a classroom: Linguistic landscapes in non-immersion contexts". Porta Linguarum, International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Special Issue XII, pp.43-58, 2025. DOI: