Dr Jose Tejero López
AECID Teaching Fellow in Spanish

- Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: jtejero@ed.ac.uk
- Web: ORCID
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Address
- Street
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Room 3.24
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
My office hours for students are on Wednesdays from 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM. Outside this time, please email to arrange a meeting.
Background
Dr Jose Tejero López is a AECID Teaching Fellow in Spanish Language at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. He also collaborate as a lecturer and supervisor in different Master's programs for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at Camilo José Cela University (UCJC), Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) and Valencia International University (VIU). Jose is a certified Spanish Teacher by the Instituto Cervantes, holding qualifications as a DELE examiner for all levels, SIELE instructor, AVE Global tutor, and he owns the recent DADIC certificate: a teaching accreditation diploma by the Instituto Cervantes. Previously, he was AECID lectureship in Cairo University and Spanish Teacher at Instituto Cervantes in this city (Egypt), Spanish Teacher for refugees in ESIC University (Seville, Spain), and Spanish Teacher at Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA).
Jose has a longstanding passion for innovative approaches to teach Spanish Language and Culture in diverse contexts. This interest has led him undertake teaching and research mobilities in countries such as a United States, Peru, Egypt, the UK, Slovenia and Spain. As a researcher, Jose especially focuses on the connection between languages and cultures, with a particular interest in teaching and learning languages in migratory contexts and for others specific purposes, and this is reflected in his research trajectory, including his international mention PhD, awarded with the distinction of cum laude. Recently, Jose has become increasingly engaged with the integration of technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language learning, as well as exploring the essential role of teachers and institutions to incorporate the technology throughout the process of teaching, learning and assessment.
Qualifications
- PhD in Education Language Teaching, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Spain
- MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and Other Modern Languages, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Undergraduate degree in Education, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Undergraduate teaching
Teaching (2024/2025)
- Foundation Spanish Language 1
- Foundation Spanish Language 4
- Spanish 1B: Written Language
- Spanish Language 2: Grammar and Written Language
- MEL Dissertation completion
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
- Spanish as a Foreign Language
- Sociolinguistics
- Teaching Languages
- Linguistics
- Languages and Cultures
- Languages learning in migratory contexts
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
- Tejero López, J. A. (2024). Towards an inter-institutional cooperation to promote linguistic education for adult migrants in Spain. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature, 17(4), e1436. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.1436
- Tejero López, J. A. (2024). El español en las enseñanzas de idiomas de régimen especial / The role of Spanish in language education within language programs subject to special regulations. ElGuiniguada, 33(2), 163-177. https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/ElGuiniguada/article/view/1697
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Tejero López, J. A. (2024). ELEOIM: estudio sobre la enseñanza de ELE en las EOI de la Comunidad de Madrid. Language&Migration, 2(15), 133–159. https://doi.org/10.37536/LYM.2.15.2023.2218
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Tejero López, J. A. (2024). La enseñanza de español mediada por tecnología: de la justicia social a la inteligencia artificial. Muñoz-Basols, J., Fuertes Gutiérrez, M. y Cerezo, L. (Eds.) (2024). Routledge (pp.418). RLA. Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada Concepción (Chile), 62 (1), I Sem. 2024, pp. 181-186. https://doi.org/10.29393/RLA62
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). Estudio descriptivo sobre la situación de la enseñanza de español en las EOI de la Región de Murcia: realidad y perspectivas. Revista de Educación, Innovación y Formación (REIF), 9, 91-114. https://www.educarm.es/reif/doc/9/reif9_4.pdf
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). ¿Qué es el español con fines profesionales y quién debe aprenderlo? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/que-es-el-espanol-con-fines-profesionales-y-quien-debe-aprenderlo-215081
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). Español con fines específicos: perspectivas en la enseñanza de ELE. El Español Por El Mundo, 5(1), 131–146. https://doi.org/10.59612/epm.i5.109
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). Aportes del CAES a la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera. Estudios aplicados de gramática y pragmática: Carmen Ballestero de Celis y María Sampedro Mella, eds. Santiago de Compostela: Verba Anexo 81, 2021, 285 pp., ISBN: 978-84-18445-45-3. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 10(1), 74–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/23247797.2023.2216958
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). El español en Egiptoperfil descriptivo de los estudiantes en el Instituto Cervantes de El Cairo. Candil, Revista del Hispanismo en Egipto, 23, 83-101. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9473857
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Tejero López, J. A. (2023). ¿Por qué no enseñan español para extranjeros todas las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/por-que-no-ensenan-espanol-para-extranjeros-todas-las-escuelas-oficiales-de-idiomas-196589
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Tejero López, J. A. (2022). Estudiantes de español en Egipto: cuando lo más difícil no es aprender la lengua. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/estudiantes-de-espanol-en-egipto-cuando-lo-mas-dificil-no-es-aprender-la-lengua-187467
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Tejero López, J. A. (2021). Lola Pons y Marta Torres. Las hablas andaluzas: glosario de una realidad lingüística. VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 7(6), 158-162. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2021.4350
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Tejero López, J. A. & Sánchez Martínez, S. (2021). Enseñanza de español en las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas. redELE, Revista electrónica de didáctica del español lengua extranjera, 33. https://www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es/mc/redele/revistaredele/numeros-publicados/2021.html