Amparo Lallana

Amparo Lallana is the Director (Content) for the Languages and Culture area, for the new common undergraduate ‘Perspectives’ curriculum and for the Integrated Foundation. She has led and been closely involved on the design of the new common curriculum at Regent’s, working with teams of academics across disciplinary boundaries.

She is an Associate Professor with solid experience in teaching Spanish, Intercultural Communication (UG/PG), Global Communication Skills and other interdisciplinary ‘Perspectives’ modules. Over her years at Regent’s University London, she has held various academic leadership and management roles, e.g. Head of the Languages and Cross-cultural Studies Department, Programme Director for the BA (Hons) International Business, etc.

A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with an MA in Translation, Amparo is also a founding member of ELEUK, the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the UK, which she chaired until 2019. She has taught in Spain and the US, and founded ‘Ingles Express’, a Language Services company in her hometown in Spain. 

Amparo has published on language-related areas e.g.: the impact of Study Abroad beyond language acquisition; employability skills supported through language learning; learners’ engagement with Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and Online Intercultural Exchanges (OIEs). Her latest publications are on the development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) for teachers and learners of languages, and on the impact of languages on graduates’ professional careers. 
 

• 2020 - Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
• 2001 - Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
• 1996 - MA in Translation (with distinction), Middlesex University, London
• 1983 - Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• 1982 - BA English Philology, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• 1998 - Certificate of Teaching Spanish for Business, ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
   

• 2020-present Director (Content) Languages, Regent’s University London
• 2021 Director (People), Regent’s University London 
• 2019-2020 Director Institute of Languages and culture, Regent’s University London 
• 2014-2019 Principal Lecturer and Subject Group Leader Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Regent’s University London 
• 2012-2014 Interim Programme Director BA International Business, Regent’s University London
• 2012 Head Languages and Cross-cultural Studies Department, Regent’s University London
• 2005-2012 Senior Lecturer and Pathway Leader, Regent’s University London
• 1995 Lecturer, Regent’s University London
• 1994-1995: Visiting Lecturer, Imperial College, and Middlesex University
• 1987-1994: CEO and Teacher, Inglés Express Language Services, Burgos, Spain
• 1986-1987: Teacher, New York City Board of Education, NY, USA

• Lallana, A., (forthcoming) ‘Applied Language Skills and Employment: a case study’, in Alvarez, I and Fuertes Gutierrez, M (eds.) The Politics of Language Teaching and Learning. Perspectives from Higher Education in the UK, John Murray Press
• LALLANA, A., & Salamanca, P (2021) ‘Intercultural C¬ommunicative Competence in Spanish L2: implications for teacher training’ in Ramos, C and I Iglesias, (eds), in La competencia comunicativa intercultural en español LE/L2: fundamentación teórica, práctica de aula y formación del profesorado/Intercultural Communicative Competence in Spanish L2: theoretical foundation, classroom practice and teacher training. Volumen monográfico del Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 7
• LALLANA, A., Hernández Martín, L., & Fuertes Gutiérrez, M (2020). (eds). Five years of the ELEUK conference: a selection of short papers from 2019. Research-publishing.net. ISBN 978-2-490057-63-4,  https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.41.9782490057634
• LALLANA, A. & Salamanca, P (2019) ‘#CulturaTándem, colaboración en línea e investigación en lengua extranjera para el desarrollo de destrezas profesionales’, en Ramos, Carmen y Salamanca, Pilar (eds.) Competencias en el aula de de español como lengua extranjera en contextos universitarios y profesionales. Actas del Congreso Internacional UniPro 2018. München: Hochschule für Angewandte Sprachen SDI. (Kindle Edition ASIN: B07V3FMWP1)
• LALLANA, A. & Salamanca, P (2017) ‘#CulturaTándem, preparing students for today's multicultural societies; A virtual exchange between the Regent’s University London and the University of Applied Languages SDI Munich’, In Gross-Dinter, U., Feuser, F. and Ramos Méndez-Sahlender, C. (eds), Zum Umgang mit Migration, Zwischen Empörungsmodus und Lösungsorientierung, Munich.
• LALLANA, A., & Pastor-González, V. (2016). ‘Spanish for business: a journey into employability’. In E. Corradini, K. Borthwick and A. Gallagher-Brett (Eds), Employability for languages: a handbook (pp. 155-160). Dublin: Research-publishing.net. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.cbg2016.477
• Lallana, A. (2013) The Penguin Spanish Phrasebook (4th ed.), (2013) with Norman, J. et al, Penguin.
• Lallana, A. (2011) ‘Prácticas de colaboración y comunicación mediada por ordenador (CMO): en la clase de ELE’ in MarcoELE, no.13, pp.112-121.

Other Outputs

• Academic Advisor for Study Abroad in Spanish and Portuguese
• Language consultancy services to the University of Westminster

Conference Papers Given

• ‘Odd couples or dynamic duos - reflecting on cross-departmental teaching’, with G. Yeats, Learning and Teaching Conference, Regent’s University London, UK; May 2019.
• ‘#CulturaTandem, Internationalisation and employability through virtual exchange’, Learning and Teaching Conference, Regent’s University London, May 3, 2018.
• ‘#CulturaTandem, research and citizenship in telecollaboration’, Unicollaboration Conference: Telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines: in service of social inclusion and global citizenship, Pedagogical University (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny), Krakow, Poland, April 2018.
• ‘#CulturaTándem: colaboración online para la investigación en lengua extranjera y el desarrollo de destrezas profesionales’, with P. Salamanca, Congreso Internacional UniPro: Enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera en contextos universitarios y profesionales; University of Applied Languages-SDI Munich, Germany, February 2018.
• “Reframing language learning: the employability question”, with V. Pastor-González at Regent’s Learning & Teaching Conference, June 2017
• “Articulating an employability narrative for Modern Languages Modules, a case study”, with V. Pastor-González at the PedRIO Conference, Employability in the Curriculum and Beyond, Plymouth, January 2017.
• “Journey into employability”, Encuentro ELE-UK2016, UK Association for the Teaching and Learning of Spanish in Higher and Adult Education, University of Reading, 24th June 2016
• “Twitter, ab initio (desde el principio)”, Encuentro ELE-UK2015, UK Association for the Teaching and Learning of Spanish in Higher and Adult Education, University of Nottingham, 12th June 2015.
• “The CV is only the tip of the iceberg: Embedding employability in language modules” with V. Pastor-González & O. Helly at the Languages & Employability Conference, Regent’s University London, 5th June 2015
• “Comunicación mediada por ordenador (CMO): prácticas de competencia escrita”, with V. Pastor-González, M. Paolucci & E. Lecumberri, 1er Encuentro para profesores de centros universitarios y de centros formadores de ELE de Londres, Regent’s College, June 2011.
• “Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) in Foreign Languages”, Learning & Teaching Project, LTC, Regent’s College, May 2011.
• "A study of students' engagement with interactive tools in the language class", 31st ACIS Conference Association of Contemporary Iberian Studies, Roehampton University, London, September 2010.
• “Integration of Study Period Abroad into Students’ Final Year”, Learning & Teaching Project, Regent’s College, LTC, May 2007.
• “Academic Usage of the Study Period Abroad”, Learning & Teaching Project, Regent’s College, LTC, May 2005.
• “Circles or Squares? Straddling Intercultural sensitivity and Bottom-Line Profit” with J. Müller , IALIC Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, December 1999

Amparo has supervised undergraduate capstone projects and dissertations on a variety of topics, (e, g. business, art history, media, etc.  Regents University London.

Research Interests

• Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC)

• ELEUK, Association for the Teaching and Learning of Spanish in Higher Education; Chair (2014-19) and member (current) 

Current teaching activities:

Global Perspectives, Learning Perspectives, Spanish

Module design:

Led and contributed to the design of the new curriculum model at Regent’s (2022-23), particularly to the design teams for ‘Perspectives’ modules (Learning Perspectives PER401, London Perspectives PER02 and Global perspectives PER403) as well as Integrated Foundation modules (FND3**) and the full suite of language modules.

Examining

Amparo is an examiner in the modules she teaches (UG and PG).

She has ample external examining experience (UG/PG) having held this position at Imperial College, City University, University of Durham, Westminster University, and Thames Valley University. She has also been a guest supervisor for MA in Intercultural Communication at the Hochschule für Angewandte Sprachen SDI München (Germany).

A Vetter of Examination Materials, for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, she was until 2020, the UK Administrator and Principal Examiner of the Business Spanish Qualifications awarded by the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.