Natalia Judith Laso

Natalia Judith Laso is a Serra Húnter Fellow in English Linguistics at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics Research Group (GRELIC). Her research focuses on two main areas: English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) and the use of corpora in the linguistics classroom. 

She currently participates in the research project Hacia un MCERL/VC más accesible: ajuste de los descriptores con resultados basados en corpus de aprendices (PID2020-117041GA-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and contributes to the compilation of the FineDesc learner corpus in collaboration with several Spanish universities. She has published extensively on biomedical discourse analysis, learner corpus research (in collaboration with the VESPA group), and ERPP. She is also co-editor of the volume Biomedical English: A Corpus-Based Approach (John Benjamins). 

In the area of teaching innovation, she is the Principal Investigator of the GIDC-Grup d’Innovació Docent Consolidat Gramàtica i Lingüística Anglesa (GIDC-GraLiAn, GINDOC-UB/034). Since 2009, she has coordinated multiple projects centred on three core areas: applying textual corpora as methodological tools for developing teaching materials, integrating data-driven learning practices into linguistics courses, and enhancing students’ analytical skills through evidence-based language learning.