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María Luisa Carrió Pastor is Professor of English at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She is currently the Director of the Department of Applied Linguistics and the Coordinator of the Doctorate Program “Languages, literatures, cultures, and their applications.” She is also the editor of the “Journal of Linguistics and Applied Languages.” Her research areas are comparative linguistics, analysis of academic and professional discourse, and teaching English as a foreign language. The methodology of her research is based on corpus analysis.