Publications (go to Research Gate for copies of papers or see the project pages for more links)

Not out yet

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. & Nogueroles Lopez, M. (under review). Embodied language teaching online benefits learning: Effects of modality and proficiency on engagement. 

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (forthcoming, 2026). Gestures with Negating Particles: Resources for Foreign Language Adult Learners. In Inceglou, S. and Morett L., Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy. De Gruyter.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. & Kosmala, L. (forthcoming, 2026). Beyond Visibility: The Role of Gestures in Video-Mediated L2 Interactions. In Ensslin, A. & Lee C. (eds.), De Gruyter Handbook on Language and Digital Culture. De Gruyter.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Nogueroles Lopez, M., & Alhmoud, Z. (forthcoming). Gestos y aprendizaje del marcador ‘se’ por sinohablantes. In J.M. Blanco Pena, P. Deza Blanco & A. Riutort Canovas (Eds). Advances in Spanish Language Teaching. Routledge.

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2025

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (Sept. 2025). The Dual Functions of Adaptors. Languages, 10(9), 231. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090231

• Lai, W.S., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Shen, D. J. & Tong K. M. (Q1 2025). Engaging the Digital Learner: Navigating Learning Landscapes in the Metaverse. In J. V. Carvalho et al. (Eds.) ICITED 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 858. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74751-9_32.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Wong, W.C., Shen, D. (Q2 2025). Enhancing VR Education: A TAM-Based Study on Predicting Student Engagement and Intent to Use Virtual Reality. In E. Chen (Ed). AETS 2024. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4952-5_1

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (May 2025). Do we need to beware of students’ perceptions?: immediacy and emotional relationship between students and teachers in the Asian context. In M. Nogueroles & T. Simon (Eds.) Lengua, emoción y afectividad: investigaciones desde la Lingüística Aplicada (pp 87-102). Madrid: Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación. [A Q1 SJR 0.38 Linguistics and Language]

• Antela-Costa,P., Blanco-Barrera, R., López-Ozieblo, R., & Mora-Gutiérrez, J.-P. (June 2025). Aprendizaje colaborativo internacional con ECO. En R. Barragán-Sánchez et al. (Eds), Acciones educativas innovadoras en el ámbito universitario (pp. 530-548). Dykinson, S.L.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Jiandong, D. S., Techanamurthy, U., Geng, H., & Nurgissayeva, A. (2025). Enhancing ai literacy through immersive vr: Evaluating pedagogical design and GenAI integration. 2025 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Technologies in Education (CSTE), 718–723. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSTE64638.2025.11092268

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2024

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (Q4 2024). Gestures with temporal markers in foreign language learners of English – pragmatic tools beyond discourse coherence across cultures. In J. Álvarez Gil, E. Quintana-Toledo & M. Sánchez Cuervo (eds.) The Intercultural Dimension in Language Learning: Some Case Studies. Peter Lang. doi:10.3726/b22255

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (May 2024). Gesturing the discourse marker “entonces” in native speakers and learners of Spanish. In: A. Brown & S. Eskildsen (eds.) Multimodality across Epistemologies in Second Language Research (pp. 283-297). Routledge.

• Qiu, X., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., & Yao, X. (Nov. 2024). ELT Student Teachers’ Acceptance and Knowledge Base of Integrating Virtual Reality into Task-Based Contexts. RELC Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882241292088

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (September 2024). Is personality reflected in the gestures of second language speakers?. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1463063. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1463063

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (June 2024). Effects of Pedagogical Gestures on Learning Abstract Grammatical Concepts in Young Adults. Frontiers in Communication, 9 DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1372033

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2023

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2023). Theory and Practice from a Cognitive Perspective - Teaching English in East Asia. Springer. Click on the pdf icon for the revised proofs.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (April 2023). The Meaning of Teachers’ Negations in Hong Kong Classrooms Interpreted from their Co-occurring Gestures. In: Roitman, M. (ed.) Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects: Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction, pp. 203–238. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcd.h. License: CC BY 4.0.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (April 2023). The Meaning of Teachers’ Negations in Hong Kong Classrooms Interpreted from their Co-occurring Gestures. In: Roitman, M. (ed.) Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects: Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction, pp. 203–238. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcd.h. License: CC BY 4.0.

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2022

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (April 2022). Observations on the Progression of Gestures with L2 Proficiency: A Call for Further Research. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1-24.

• Chaudhuri, T., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Martinez, V. (Jan 2022). Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness: Research and Practice Singapore: Springer Briefs in Education.

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2021

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Nogueroles Lopez, M., & Alhmoud, Z. (Oct 2021). Exploring the Most Effective Modality to Present Online Material to Language Students. In European Conference on e-Learning (pp. 647-XVI). Academic Conferences International Limited.  DOI:10.34190/EEL.21.090

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (Jan 2021). Improving second language writing across the disciplines: resources for content teachers. In M. Carrió Pastor and B. Bellés-Fortuño (Ed.). Teaching Language and Content in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms. CLIL and EMI Approaches (pp. 191-222). London: Palgrave McMillan.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Learning from a Corpus of Students’ Academic Writing. Revista Signos,  54(106), 645-667.

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2020

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2020). Proposing a revised functional classification of pragmatic gestures. Lingua. Doi 10.13140/RG.2.2.32493.61927

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2020). A multimodal cognitive approach to aid the conceptualization of utterances with ‘se’. Cognitive Linguistics (published online ahead of print 2020), 000010151520190089. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0089

• Chaudhuri, T., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Martinez, V. & Ivanova, I. (2020). Connecting Global Minds: Online Telecollaborative Learning for Global Citizenship Education. In Remenyi, D. The 6th International e-Learning Excellence Awards, an anthology of case studies (pp.17-35). Reading, UK: Academic Conferences International Limited.

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2019

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (Sept. 2019). Cut-offs and co-occurring gestures: Similarities between speakers’ first and second languages. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL) (published online ahead of print). doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2017-0117.

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2018

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (August, 2018) Disagreeing without a ‘no’: how teachers indicate disagreement in a Hong Kong classroom. Journal of Pragmatics, 137, pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.016/ ISSN / ISBN 0378-2166

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (June, 2018). Can gestures help clarify the meaning of the Spanish marker ‘se’? Lingua (208), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2018.03.002 ISSN / ISBN 0024-3841

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (June, 2018). Testing task difficulty evaluating parameters and identifying gestures as a valid indicator. The Asian EFL Journal, 20(6), Ch. 11. https://www.asian-efl-journal.com/11049/quarterly-journal/volume-20-issue-6-june-2018-quarterly-journal

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2017

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (November, 2017). Independent ESP learners: The case for blended learning. In R. Muñoz-Luna & L. Taillefer (eds.), Integrating Information and Communication Technologies in English for Specific Purposes (pp. 37-56). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68926-5_4 ISSN / ISBN 978-3-319-68925-8 (Print) / 978-3-319-68926-5 (Online)

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2017). Cut-offs and Gestures: Analytical Tools to Understand a Second Language Speaker. In C. Vargas-Sierra (ed.), Professional and Academic Discourse: an Interdisciplinary Perspective (vol 2, 60-68). Alicante: EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. & McNeill, D. (April, 2017). Exchange on gesture-speech unity: What it is, where it came from. In R. Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer Kelly (Eds.), Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating (pp. 103-125). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.7.06lop ISSN / ISBN 9789027228499 (book)

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2017). Creando intimidad mediante los comportamientos no verbales. In S. Fernandez Medina (Ed.), Almudena Grandes : memoria, compromiso y resistencia. Granada, Spain: Valparaiso Ediciones.

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2016

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2016). Estudio sobre la producción de gestos en estudiantes de lenguas extranjeras. Didáctica. Lengua y Literatura, 28, 165-180.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2016). Book review: “Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence Naoko Taguchi (2012) Multilingual Matters”. East Asian Pragmatics, 1 (2), 277-281.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2016). Adquiriendo ELE a través de los personajes de Almudena Grandes. Revista Foro de Profesores de ELE, 12, 147-155

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Earlier

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2015). Cultural aspects of immediacy in an Asian classroom. ELIA,15, 13-34.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2015). Analysis of disfluencies and gestures in Spanish natives and in students of Spanish as a foreign language. Doctoral thesis (online publication). Universidad de Malaga, Spain. http://riuma.uma.es/xmlui/handle/10630/11747

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2013). Reflections on the Use of Nonverbal Communication in Teaching Spanish to Sino-Speakers. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 19, 321-340.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2012). Manifestaciones sociolingüísticas para dar y tomar la palabra en la interacción oral de estudiantes hongkoneses de español. Master thesis (unpublished). Universidad de Jaen, Spain.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2012). ¿Ahora hablo yo?: Observaciones de cómo negocian los turnos discursivos estudiantes hongkoneses de español. Proceedings of the III Encuentro de Profesores de Español para Sinohablantes (EPES) (pp. 210-220). Jaén, Spain: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Jaén.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2010). ¿Cómo enseñamos el presente de indicativo? Recursos para las primeras horas de clase. Proceedings of the IV Jornadas de Formación de Profesores, Beijing.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2000). Demystifying Online Education. Master thesis (published online by Netdimensions, no longer available). INSEAD, France and Singapore.

 

 

Research Projects

 

• Beyond Reality: Embodied-GenAI Concentric Learning for Pedagogical AI in Immersive VR. Funded by TDLEG-IICA 2025-2028 HK$0.955 million led by Lingnan University. CI (2025)

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• Online versus face-to-face L2 interactions: the effect on gesture and turn-taking. International collaboration, Dean’s Reserve, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2025)

• Brainstorming with AI-driven avatars to select research topics. FITE, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2025)

• Enhancing VR engagement through AI-Driven Gestures. Department of English and Communication Teaching and Learning Committee Fund, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2025)

• Technology-enhanced second language teaching and learning: A professional development programme for English language teachers Department of English and Communication Teaching and Learning Committee Fund, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.CI. (2025)

• Are adaptors communicative gestures? Faculty Reserve for Research, Scholarly and Other Endeavours, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2024)

• : Technology-enhanced second language teaching and learning: A professional development programme for English language teachers. Department of English and Communication Teaching and Learning Committee Fund, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. CI (2024)

• Exploring European Culture in the Metaverse. Teaching Development Grant (TDG) 2022-25, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2023)

• Second language learner engagement in virtual reality interactive tasks: A needs analysis. Department of English and Communication Teaching and Learning Committee Fund, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (2023)

• Is personality reflected in gestures? Department of English and Communication Research Fund, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (2022)

• Evaluating the effects of gesture-enriched learning: Do all individuals benefit the same? The impact of individual characteristics on the uptake of gesture-enriched content. Dean’s Reserve, Faculty of Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (2022)

• Developing content and assessment materials for a PolyU CAR subject on Open edX. Online Teaching Development and Educational Research Grant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. (2021)

• An online international collaborative project by students of Spanish as a foreign language. Seed Fund for Innovating Internationalisation at Home Strategies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2021)

• Gesture Processing in Foreign Language Learners. Funded by: HK University Grants Council (UGC, GRF HK) (2021)

• Exploring the most effective modality to present online material to language students. Funded by: Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  (2021).

• Gesture processing in foreign language learners. Funded by: HK UGC (2020). 

• Base-line Study to Identify Types of Gestures in Speakers of English as a Second or Foreign Language at Various Proficiency Levels. Funded by: the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2018).

• From negation to disagreement: Detection and analysis of multimodal patterns in audiovisual and lab interaction corpora (MultiNeg). Led by Dr. Ines Olza (University of Navarra, Spain).

• AILA REN on Gestures in second language acquisition. More information: https://www.kiminakatsukasa.net/ren-gesture-multimodality-and-sla

• Pilot Study to Determine the Interference of L1 Gestures in L2 English Representational Gestures. Funded by: the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017).

• A Telecollaborative E-Learning Project on Foreign Language Learning (Co-I). Funded by: HK UGC (2017).

• Supporting Professional Development, Pedagogy & Language for Curriculum Learning. Funded by : HK UGC (2017).

• Identifying cognitive load differences in narrating and reflective tasks through gesture -speech analysis. Funded by: the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017).

• Corpus Use in Academic Writing by Postgraduate Students: Impact and Implications. Funded by: the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016).

• Investigating the use of teachers’ nonverbal communication to enhance their classroom performance. Funded by: the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016).

• A contrastive analysis of gestures in Mexican and Spanish speakers of Spanish. Funded by Early Career Fund, University of Huddersfield (2015).

• PIE15-49: Design of virtual activities in English for the Virtual Campus Funded by: Proyecto de Innovación Educativa para la mejora de la práctica docente, Malaga University, Spain (2015).

• Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language (Extended). Funded by: Research Network - International Association of Applied Linguistics (2013 & 2015)

• PIE13-29: Skype Practicum en Inglés/Español como Lengua Extranjera. Funded by: Proyecto de Innovación Educativa para la mejora de la práctica docente, Malaga University, Spain (2013).

 

 

Conferences 

 

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. & Kosmala, L. (Dec 2025). Gestures in L2 Interactions. A comparison of F2F vs. online interactions. Paper Presented at the 8th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association. City University of Hong Kong.

• Fang, L., Zhou X., Shen, D., Nurgissayeva, A., Techanamurthy, U., Lopez-Ozieblo,  R. (Dec 2025). Generative AI as a Learning Partner in VR: Structural Insights into Engagement and Metacognition. Poster presented at AI-2025 Forty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (Nov 2025). Beyond words. Invited talk English Language Centre Hong Kong Baptist University.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R.; Shen, D.; Nurgissayeva, A.; Lam, G. and Wong Gonzales, W. D. (Oct. 2025). Visual Engagement in Immersive VR: Modeling Nonlinear Dynamics of Presence and Technology Acceptance. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA 2025), Malaga, Spain.

• Choi, H.S., Shen, D., Kwon, S., Mengoni, P., Lopez, R., Wong, P. (Oct. 2025). Interaction Design and Divergent Paths in VR Learning: A Structural Modeling Approach. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA 2025), Malaga, Spain. (Best paper Award).

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., & Kosmala, L. (July 2025). Gesture use and Interactional Dynamics in L2 Speakers: A Comparative Study of Face-to-Face and Online Interactions. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference for Gesture Studies. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (9-11th July 2025)

• Kosmala, L. & Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (28 March 2025). Online versus face-to-face L2 interactions: the effect on gesture and turn-taking. Workshop presented at Discoveries and Dialogues: Online exchanges in language learning, PLIDAM (Inalco) and CREA (Université Paris Nanterre).

• Kosmala, L. & Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (16 May 2025). Negotiating Meaning: Gestures in Face-to-Face vs. Online Second Language Interactions. Paper presented at The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality, University of Groningen, Netherlands (16 May).

• Kosmala, L. & Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (22 May 2025). Multimodal feedback behavior in face-to-face and online L2 interactions. Poster presented at LingCologne, University of Cologne, Germany (22-23 May).

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Shen, D., Techanamurthy, U., Geng, H. & Nurgissayeva, A. (2025) Enhancing AI Literacy through Immersive VR: Evaluating Pedagogical Design and GenAI Integration. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Technologies in Education (CSTE). Wuhan, China April 18-20, 2025

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (November 2024). Why do we gesture?. Invited talk for the Department of English, CityU, Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (December 2024). Gestures in cross-cultural speakers: Exploring Personality and Proficiency in Second Language Speakers. Paper presented at 14th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. 14-19 December 2024. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Jiangdong, D. & Wong Wai Chung, Gary (Nov 2024). Enhancing VR Education: A TAM-Based Study on Predicting Student Engagement and Intent to Use Virtual Reality. 4th Asia Education Technology Symposium. 8-10 Nov 2024. Hong Kong

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (August 2024). Results from a longitudinal study of gestures in adult learners of English as a foreign language.  Paper presented at International Association on Applied Linguistics. 11-16 August 2024. Kuala Lumpur.

• Wing-sze W., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Jiangdong, D. & Ka-man E. (July 2024). Engaging the Digital Learner: Navigating Learning Landscapes in the Metaverse. Paper presented at International Conference in Information Technology and Education. 11-13 July. Pernambuco University, Brazil.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (September 2023). Adaptors do more than indicate emotional distress: can they be discourse markers? Paper presented at ProtoLang8. Roma Tre University.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (September 2023). Decoding the Power of Gestures in adult learners of English as a foreign language: Preliminary results from a 3 year long multi-participant study. Paper presented at the 32nd European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) conference. University of Birmingham.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (September 2023). Is personality reflected in hand gestures co-occurring with speech? Poster presented at the Gesture and Speech in Interaction 2023 (Gespin). Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (July 2023). Effects of pedagogical gestures on learning abstract grammatical concepts in young adults. Paper presented at the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics (HAAL). Hang Seng  University of Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (November 2023). Gestures in teacher´s negations. Invited Talk at the Teaching Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects events at Stockholm University organized by Dr. Malin Roitman.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2023). Teaching with embodied cognition in mind. Hong Kong Second Language Acquisition Research Forum (invited speaker). The Education University of Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2023). Invited talk at the MultiNeg Lab: From negation to disagreement: Detection and analysis of multimodal patterns in audiovisual and lab interaction corpora (MultiNeg). Led by Dr. Ines Olza (University of Navarra, Spain).

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2022). Do foreign language students mimic their teachers’ gestures or do they produce similar gestures because they share conceptualization?. 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). Loyola University Chicago.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Nogueroles Lopez, M., & Alhmoud, Z. (2021). Desarrollo de un curso en línea para analizar la modalidad más efectiva a la hora de presentar material a estudiantes de ELE: el marcador “se” [Development of an online course to analyze the most effective modality when presenting material to ELE students: the marker “se”]. XXXI Congreso Internacional/International Conference de ASELE [Spanish Association of Spanish Studies]. University of Leon, Spain.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Gesturing discourse markers in native speakers and learners of Spanish. World Congress of Applied Linguistics. University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Learning Second Language concepts through embodiment: the case of “se”. XIV Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General (XIV International Conference on General Linguistics). University of Seville, Spain.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Introduction to gestures in teaching and learning (convenor and presenter of an invited panel on Gestures in teaching and learning). 6th International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC6). City University, Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Learnings from a second language speaker: conclusions observations from gestures. 6th International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC6).  City University, Hong Kong.

• Qu, C. & Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Gestures by L1 Cantonese Learners of L2 English. 6th International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC6).  City University, Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2021). Resources to Improve Students’ Academic Writing. HKCPD Hub Virtual International Conference. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

• Chaudhuri, T., Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Martinez, V. (2020) Connecting Global Minds: Online Telecollaborative Learning for Global Citizenship Education. Paper presented at the 6th International e-Learning Excellence Awards [Finalists]. University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin, Germany.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2019). Gesturing to indicate time in L2 speakers of English. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2019). ¿Marcando secuencias o disfluencias con gestos?: Los gestos con marcadores temporales en el discurso oral de hablantes nativos y no nativos. /Are gestures marking the sequencing of information or the disfluence? Gestures with temporal markers in the oral discourse of native and non-native speakers. International Conference of Pragmatic and Oral Discourse in Disciplinary Studies. /Congreso Internacional ´Estudios Disciplinares de la pragmática y del discurso oral´. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2019). Learning from a Corpus of Students’ Academic Writing. 2nd International Conference on Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse / II Congreso Internacional sobre Análisis de Corpus del Discurso Académico. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R., Cheung, E., & Johannes, M (2018). Incorporating Knowledge About Language (KAL) in cross-disciplinary student writing workshops: implications for teacher professional development. Presented at International Conference on English Language Education in The Chinese Context, ELECC. The Education University of Hong Kong.

• Cheung, E.,  Johannes, M & Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2018) . Comparison of Positioning Strategies in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Research Proposals between Humanities and Business: a Functional Linguistic Perspective. Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Linguistics and Language Studies.  The Open University of Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. & Chan, B. (2018). Aprendizaje integrado de lenguas y sensibilización social mediante la colaboración a distancia (Integrated learning and developing social acumen through on-line collaboration). Presented at VI Jornadas de Formacion de Profesores de Hong Kong. The University of Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2017) Online learning: Evaluating cognitive overload imposed by multiple-media texts through gesture analysis. Presented at 8th International Conference on Distance Learning and Education. Barcelona.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2017) Achieving immediacy in the classroom through narrations and gestures. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Literature and Linguistics (ICOLL). Hong Kong.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. (2017) Cognitive load issues in multimedia learning: Do gestures help to recognize them? Presented at International Conference on ESP, New Technologies and Digital Learning. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Negating without a no: a study of gestures in a teaching context. The Pragmatics of Negation – Aspects of Communication, Department of Romance and Classical Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden, 31 May-2 June 2017. 

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Pragmática y significados implícitos en la clase de ELE. Jornadas de Formación de Profesores en Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 10-11 March 2017. 

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Teaching pragmatic meaning through popular literature. The 11th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 9-10 December 2016. 

• López-Ozieblo, R. Developing Cognitive Pragmatics in Language Students through Modern Literature. The Materials Development Association, MATSDA 2016. University of Liverpool, UK, 18-19 June 2016. 

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Cut-offs and Gestures: Analytical Tools to Understand a Second Language Speaker. 34th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), University of Alicante, Spain, 14-16 April 2016. 

• López-Ozieblo, R. Creating immediacy with non-verbal communication in Sino-speaking L2 classrooms. XII ELIA. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 1-3 July 2015.

• López-Ozieblo, R. Interpretando disfluencias en estudiantes de español. V EPES. Universidad de Jaén, Spain, 29-30 June 2015.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Reading gestures in Second Language Speakers. The 7th International Conference on Multimodality. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 11-13 June 2014.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Understanding inner cognitive conflict through the analysis of gestures. The 6th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics in Seville. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 12-14 May 2014.

• Lopez-Ozieblo, R. Gleaming Foreign Language students’ cognitive processes through gesture. The 7th Free Linguistics Conference. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 27-28 September 2013.

 

 

Professional memberships

 

• Fellow: Higher Education Academy, UK.

• Member: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada

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