Applied linguistics, EAP teaching and research, learners’ interlanguage/error analysis, genre analysis of academic discourse in English and Spanish, research methods in cross-cultural and intercultural studies of academic discourse, ethnographically-oriented methods for the study of academic discourse and of the research activities of Spanish scientists, survey research, sociopsycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, computer-aided survey research, statistics, sociology, edition of scientific journals, peer reviewing and author’s editing of research articles for scientific journals; computational linguistics, experience as members of journals’ scientific committees and editorial boards in various fields.