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Susana S. Fernández is professor of foreign language pedagogy at the Department of German and Romance Languages, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University. She is the head of the Study Board and the leader of the language subject group at the Theoretical Pedagogical Education for Upper Secondary School Teachers in Denmark. She is co-head of the research program Language and Communication and head of the research unit Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at Aarhus University.
Job responsibilities
Susana S. Fernández’ research areas include foreign and second language pedagogy, with a particular focus on intercultural semantics and pragmatics, grammar teaching and teacher cognition. She also researches various aspects of Spanish linguistics. She is the PI for the Velux-funded research project "Danish in the Making. Intercultural Pragmatics for learners and teachers of Danish as a second language".
Keywords
- Corpus linguistics
- Spanish in South and North America
- Spanish semantics
- Spanish language acquisition
- Language teaching
Areas of expertise
- foreign language pedagogy
- second language pedagogy
- intercultural semantics/pragmatics
- Spanish linguistics
- grammar teaching
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Sustainable Language Education
Andersen, L. K. (PI), Fernández, S. S. (Participant), Daugaard, L. M. (Participant) & Rahn, L. (Participant)
01/04/2025 → 03/08/2027
Project: Research
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Danish in the Making
Fernández, S. S. (PI), Levisen, C. (CoPI), Sadow, L. (Participant), Rasmussen, A. M. (Participant) & Rørbæk, N. (Participant)
01/02/2023 → 31/07/2026
Project: Research
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Emancipatory Ethnopragmatics
Fernández, S. S. (Participant) & Levisen, C. (Applicant)
01/08/2016 → …
Project: Research
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Ethnopragmatics for Intercultural Competence (EPIC): Bringing culture, values and communicative styles to the language classroom
Fernández, S. S. (Applicant)
01/08/2016 → …
Project: Research
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A new approach to teaching intercultural pragmatics: using minimal languages in the language classroom
Fernández, S. S. & Sadow, L., 2025, Alla språk i skolan : perspektiv på språkundervisning. Ackermann-Boström, C., Hellqvist, B. & Håkansson Ramberg, M. (eds.). Uppsala: Uppsala university, p. 57-70 (Studia Didactica Upsaliensia, Vol. 16).Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Developing pragmatic competence in a second language: An adult migrant learner perspective
Fernández, S. S., Sadow, L. & Rasmussen, A. M., 2025, (Submitted) In: Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Har kommunikativ sprogundervisning en fremtid i skolen? Ja, siger skolens kommende sproglærere!
balle, S. H., Olsen, M., Andersen, L. K., Fernández, S. S., Gregersen, A. S. & Hansen, C. F., 2025, In: Sproglaereren.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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¿Es nuestra enseñanza tan comunicativa como creemos?
Fernández, S. S., 2024, In: Rodrigo. Informationer fra Spansklærerforeningen.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Communication
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13 sprogfolk advarer mod forslag om at droppe tysk og fransk
Gregersen, A. S., Hansen, C. F., Nielsen, C. Ø., von Holst-Pedersen, J., Kjærbæk, L., Rahn, L., Krogager Andersen, L., Jensen, N. H., Hannibal Jensen, S., Gaarsmand, S., Löbl, S. K. & Fernández, S. S., Jan 2024, In: Skolemonitor.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Comment/debate/letter to the editor › Communication
Activities
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Sommerseminar for Forskningsprogrammet Sprog og Kommunikation 2025
Fernández, S. S. (Organizer) & Schoonderbeek Hansen, I. (Organizer)
13 Jun 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
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Et lærerkognitionsstudium om grammatikdidaktik i gymnasiets sprogfag
Fernández, S. S. (Lecturer)
13 Jun 2025Activity: Presentations, memberships, employment, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Interact-LLM seminar
Fernández, S. S. (Participant)
12 Jun 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
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Coping with set phrases for interaction in an online Danish learning resource for adult migrants
Sadow, L. (Invited speaker), Rasmussen, A. M. (Invited speaker) & Fernández, S. S. (Invited speaker)
21 May 2025Activity: Presentations, memberships, employment, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Europhras 2025
Fernández, S. S. (Participant)
19 May 2025 → 22 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
Prizes
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To-årigt post-doc stipendium med projekt: "Kognitivt baseret grammatikundervisning på videregående fremmedsprogsstudier"
Fernandez, S. S. (Recipient), 1 Aug 2007
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
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Velux fonden stipendium
Fernandez, S. S. (Recipient) & Levisen, C. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Press/Media
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Professor om sprogundervisning i gymnasiet: Vi er ikke helt i mål
06/12/2023
1 Media contribution
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11 forskere: Fødekæden fra folkeskolen til de sproglige professioner er brudt sammen
14/11/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Interview med professor Susana S. Fernández
02/06/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media