Francisco Moreno-Fernandez

Francisco Moreno Fernández (Born Mota del Cuervo, Spain, 1960) is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.

Career

Moreno-Fernandez holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics and is Professor of Spanish Language in the University of Alcalá (Spain). He pursues research in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and applied linguistics. He is also Academic Director of the "Instituto Cervantes" and has been a visiting researcher at the universities of London, New York, (SUNY – Albany), Québec (Montreal), and Tokyo as well as visiting professor at Göteborg University (Sweden), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), and University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Moreno Fernandez was Director of the Cervantes institutes at Sao Paulo (1998-2001) and Chicago (2001-2005). Academic and Research Director of the "Comillas Foundation" for the study and teaching of Spanish Language (2006-2008).

In 1998, he coordinated the first "Cervantes Institute Yearbook. Spanish in the World". He has been a columnist in several American journals in Spanish: "La Opinión" (Los Angeles), "Diario. La Prensa" (New York), and "La Raza" (Chicago). Co-editor of "Spanish in Context". He belongs to the Editorial Board of the journals: "Revista de Adquisición de la Lengua Española", "Cuadernos Cervantes", "Estudios de Sociolingüística", "Sociolinguistic Studies", "Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile", and "Oralia".

Books

* "Atlas de la lengua española en el mund" (2008) (with J. Otero)
*(ed.) "Sociolinguistics of Spanish in Spain: the bilingual areas (2007)
*"Demografía de la lengua española" (2007) (with J. Otero)
*"Principios de Sociolingüística y Sociología del Lenguaje" (1998; 2nd.ed, 2005)
*"Historia social de las lenguas de España" (2005)
*"La lengua hablada en Alcalá de Henares" (2004-2007) (with A. Cestero, I. Molina and F. Paredes)
*"Diccionario bilingüe de uso Español – Portugués / Portugués- Español" (2003; 2nd.ed,2005)
*"Producción, expresión e interacción oral" (2002)
*"Qué español enseñar" (2000; 2nd.ed, 2007)
*(dir.) "Diccionario para la Enseñanza de la Lengua Española" (1995)
*"La división dialectal del español de América" (1993)
*(ed.) "Sociolinguistics and Stylistic Variation" (1992)
*"Metodología sociolingüística" (1990)

Awards and distinctions

* Voto de Louvor da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000)
* "National Association of Hispanic Publications". First Place. Multiple Article Series, Larger Publications (Las Vegas, USA; march 2003)
* XV "Juan Martín de Nicolás" Research Award (2006)

External links

*http://www.linguas.net/Espaciospersonales/EspacioFranciscoMorenoFernández/Currículum/tabid/76/Default.aspx
*http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extaut?codigo=173515
*http://www.cervantes.es/sobre_instituto_cervantes/equipo_directivo.htm