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

Address

Street

Room 3.24
50 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LH

Availability

  • My drop-in office hours for students are on Wednesdays from 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM. Outside of this time, please email me to arrange a meeting.

Biography

Background

Dr Jose Tejero López is a AECID Teaching Fellow in Spanish Language at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.  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

Responsibilities & affiliations

Responsibilities

  • Treasurer (Board of Trustees), Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU)
  • Lecturer and supervisor, MA International Education and Bilingualism, Camilo Jose Cela University (UCJC)
  • Lecturer and supervisor, MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Alfonso X El Sabio University (UAX)
  • Lecturer and supervisor, MA Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Valencia International University (VIU)
  • DELE examiner, Instituto Cervantes in Manchester 

Affiliations

  • Member, Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU), Scotland Constituency

  • Member, Network of Associations of Spanish Researchers and Scientists Abroad (RAICEX)

  • Member,  Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (ASELE)
  • Member, UK Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher and Adult Education (ELEUK)
  • Member, The British Academy, UK's National academy for the humanities and social sciences
  • Member, European Association of Spanish Teachers (AEPE)

International Visiting Stays

  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2025)
  • University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2024)
  • The university of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (2023)
  • Instituto Cervantes in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (2021)
  • University of Piura, Piura, Peru (2018)
  • Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States (2017)

Editorships

  • Peer Reviewer, Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (JSLT)

  • Peer Reviewer, Porta Linguarum

  • Peer Reviewer, Electronic Journal of Applied Linguistics (RAEL-AESLA)

  • Peer Reviewer, International Journal of Foreign Languages (RILE)

  • Peer Reviewer, Language&Migration

  • Peer Reviewer, El español por el mundo (Epm –  European Association of Spanish Teachers)

  • Peer Reviewer, Bellaterra – Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature 

  • Peer Reviewer, Multidisciplinary Education for Gender Equality (EMIG)

  • Peer Reviewer, Philologia Hispalensis

  • Peer Reviewer, Verbeia – Journal of English and Spanish Studies 

     

 

Undergraduate teaching

  • Foundation Spanish Language 1 – Course Organiser
  • Foundation Spanish Language 4 – Course Organiser 
  • Spanish 1B: Written Language
  • Spanish 1B: Oral Language 
  • Spanish Language 2: Grammar and Written Language 
  • Spanish Year Abroad Online Language Learning Course
  • 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 

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