College of Arts and Letters
University of the Philippines Diliman
Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura
Miguel Blázquez-Carretero, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Applied Linguistics & Second Language Acquisition, Education Policy, Materials Development
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Dr Miguel Blázquez Carretero is an Associate Professor and Spanish Section Coordinator of
the Department of European Languages of the University of the Philippines Diliman. He holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the UNED (Madrid, Spain), a master’s degree in applied Linguistics and Second Language Teaching from the University of Oxford (Oxford, UK), and a master’s degree in International Development and Project Management from Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, Spain). He has been a DepEd consultant for Spanish curriculum development since 2017 and has assumed a similar role for TESDA since 2022. He is a co-founder of the Jornadas de ELE Manila, the Rafael Palma literary prize, president of AFELE, coordinator of the Maria Zambrano UP-UMA Centre, and the main proponent of the OVCRD-funded project for the development of open- access digital Spanish learning materials adapted to the Filipino educational context. He is the author of several scientific articles published in internationally renowned Q1 journals such as LLT, Applied Linguistics, CALL-EJ, and ReCALL.
Journal articles:
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “Building a pedagogic spellchecker for L2 learners of Spanish.” ReCALL, vol. 35, nº3, 2023, pp. 321-338. SJR Q1
Melchor, Jillian Loise, and Miguel Blázquez-Carretero. “Zamboanga Chavacano: From español de cocina to un poquito español. A postcolonial inquiry into creole language preservation.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol. 37, nº 1, 2022, pp. 72-113. SJR Q2
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel, and Robert Woore. “Can a ‘pedagogical’spellchecker improve spelling accuracy in L2 Spanish?” Language Learning & Technology, vol. 25, nº 2, 2021, pp. 135-157. SJR Q1
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “El español en la educación obligatoria filipina.” Boletín ASELE, vol. 64, 2021, pp. 17-20.
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “A review of Javier Muñoz-Basols, Elisa Gironzetti, and Manel Lacorte, (eds): The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching”. Applied Linguistics, 2020, amaa026. SJR Q1
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “Using bigrams to detect written errors made by learners of Spanish as a foreign language.” CALLEJ, vol. 20, 2019, pp. 55-69. SJR Q1
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel, and Catherine Fan. “The efficacy of spell check packages specifically designed for second language learners of Spanish.” Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities (JSSH), vol. 27, nº 2, 2019, pp. 847-863. SJR Q3
Book chapters:
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel and Jillian L. Melchor. “Divining the indio's tongue: missionary language learning in early colonial Philippines”. In the Spanish world, but not quite of it: prismatic views of the Philippines from its early history to the late 18th century. Edited by Maria Serena Diokno, University of the Philippines Press, forthcoming.
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “Desarrollo de un repositorio en línea de materiales gratuitos de español como lengua extranjera para el profesorado filipino de la secundaria pública” In Enseñanza e innovación educativa en el ámbito universitario. Edited by C. Llorente-Cejudo et al., Dykinson. SL, 2024, 238-249.
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel, M. Luisa Young, and Anna M. Sibayan-Sarmiento. “Enseñar español en Filipinas: De idioma oficial a lengua extranjera” In Atlas del ELE. Geolingüística de la enseñanza del español en el mundo. Volumen II. Asia. Edited by María Galindo and María Méndez Santos, Enclave-ele, 2023, pp 149-182.
Blázquez-Carretero, Miguel. “Is it worth correcting L2 learners' written work?” El poder de la comunicación: periodismo, educación y feminismo. Edited by M. García Orta and R. Martín Santos, Dykinson S.L., 2022, pp. 829-862.
Research projects:
Lead researcher of the project “A context-sensitive, open-access digital textbook of Spanish as a foreign language for DepEd Filipino teachers and learners” funded by Up OVCRD through an outright research grant (242402 ORG)
Founder and Developer of www.elefilipinas.org. An open-access digital repository of various ELE learning resources based on the CEFR and adapted to the DepEd SPFL curriculum. In 2022 it was officially approved as supplementary material for the DepEd SPFL Spanish classes.
Lead researcher of the project “La influencia hispánica en el vocabulario filipino: orígenes y evolución de las connotaciones semánticas.” Sponsored by the Spanish Embassy in Manila and the Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española and awarded by the HISPANEX Grant of the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2019.