Publications

Digital genres for science communication practices

This body of research includes, on the one hand, studies of parascientific genres on micro-blogging platforms (e.g. Twitter/X, Tumblr) and, on the other hand, the exploration of practices and beliefs attached to the creation and dissemination of genres that promote science communication with the lay public. 

• Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (2026). Digital genres in ESP: Theoretical and practical issues. In Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (eds), Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication: Mapping Research and Practice (pp. 3-20). Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003582861-2

• Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (eds). (2026). Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication: Mapping Research and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582861  

• Villares, R., Pérez-Llantada, C., & Carciu, O. (2026). Perceptions and values of Spanish female scientists towards digital science communication. Journal of Science Communication, 25(1), A08. https://doi.org/10.22323/156420251226063745 (Open Access🔓)

• Pérez-Llantada, C., Villares, R., Carciu, O. (2025). Talking science: Women scientists’ engagement in spoken public science communication online. System, 134 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103832 (Open Access🔓)

• Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O.M., & Villares, R. (2025). Scientists’ digitally mediated activity, genres and digital tools: A cross-sectional survey across the disciplines. Written Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883251328307 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R., & Pérez-Llantada, C. (2025). Digital Science Communication Training: Approaching Methods, Frameworks, and Outcomes. In M. Martínez Vázquez, D. Nisa Cáceres, & S. Casal Madinabeitia (eds.), Fragments of Meaning. Dialogues in Language, Literature, and Culture (pp. 91-101). Enredars. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. https://rio.upo.es/rest/api/core/bitstreams/44fed50e-91f6-4c26-b7a3-721b486036fa/content (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2024). Twitter conference discussion sessions: how and why researchers engage in online discussions. RICL Research in Corpus Linguistics, 13(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.01.05 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2023). Exploring rhetorical strategies of stance and engagement in Twitter conference presentations. ESP Today, 11(2): 280-301. https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2023.11.2.5 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2022). Twitter conference presentations: a rhetorical and semiotic analysis of an emerging digital genre. ELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, 22, 125-167. http://doi.org/10.12795/elia.2022.i22.05 (Open Access🔓)

• Pérez-Llantada, C.; Abián, O.; Cadenas-Sánchez, C.; Carciu, O.; Clemente-Gallardo, J.; Erviti, Mari C.; Labayen, I.; León, B.; Ollero, A.; Oses Recalde, M.; Rivera, D.; Vela, A.; Velázquez-Campoy, A.; Villares, R.; & Vivas Peraza, A.C. (2022). Digital Science: Sustainable, transformative and transversal. Final report. Mendeley Data, V1. 10.17632/2yv5brwxg5.1 

• Villares, R. (2017). A Corpus-based Analysis of Non-Standard English Features in the Microblogging Platform Tumblr. EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics, 2, 295–303. https://doi.org/10.29007/gln9 (Open Access🔓)

Internationalisation & language policy

Publications  related to English-medium Instruction, language policy in university contexts, and internationalised practices of scholars and researchers  when writing for publication and for academic literacy development

• Villares, R. (2025). La internacionalización de la investigación: retos e identidades desde la perspectiva de los investigadores. In E. Dafouz (ed.), Internacionalizar la universidad española: estrategias, prácticas docentes y lenguas (pp. 157-171). Ediciones Complutense. https://doi.org/10.5209/ling.003.08 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2022). Do top-down and bottom-up agents agree on internationalisation? A mixed methods study of Spanish universities. Language Value, 15(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.6035/languagev.6845  (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2021). EMI, international visibility and competitiveness: A corpus-assisted discourse study of Spanish higher education internationalisation plans. European Journal of Language Policy, 13(2), 201-222. https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2021.12 (post-print 🔓)

• Villares, R. (2021). Engaging internationally in academia: how personal experience shapes academic literacy development. In L.-M. Muresan & C. Orna-Montesinos (eds.), Academic Literacy Development: Perspectives on multilingual scholars' approaches to writing (pp. 247-264). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62877-2_13 

• Villares, R. (2020). The challenges and opportunities of multilingual academia: Spanish scholars' language choice in research and teaching practices. Synergy,  16(2), 131-152. http://www.synergy.ase.ro/synergy-vol-16-no-2-2020.html (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R. (2019). The role of language policy documents in the internationalisation of multilingual higher education: an exploratory corpus-based study. Languages, 4(56), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030056 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares Maldonado, R. (2019). The convergence between internationalisation and language policy in higher education: a discursive analysis of language implications for internationally engaged universities. (unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Zaragoza, Spain. ISNN: 2254-7606. https://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89284/files/?ln=en  (Open Access🔓)

Teaching-related publications

These publications explore aspects of teaching English as a foreign language in different contexts and from different methodological perspectives (e.g., project-based learning, digital competence development, formative assessment, and ESP/EMI teacher collaboration) 

• Pardos Martínez, E., Villares Maldonado, R., Peña Blasco, G., Alda García, M., & Boumda Ijang, B. C. (2025). Aprendizaje visible y activo para el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa académica en el grado en ADE en inglés. In J. D. Dueñas Lorente, J. L. Alejandre Marco, & A. Cortés Pascual (Eds.), Toma de decisiones docentes basada en evidencias científicas (pp. 249-259). Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/uz.978-84-09-70237-4 (Open Access🔓)

• Villares, R., & Carciu, O. M. (2023). Technology-Mediated Tasks for Formative Assessment in an e-Portfolio Environment. In S. W. Chong & H. Reinders (eds.), Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment (pp. 219-236). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18950-0_13 (post-print 🔓)

• Carciu, O.M., & Villares, R. (2022). Innovation linked with SDGs: Citizen Science projects to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 1223-1230. https://doi.org/10.4995/head22.2022.14408 (Open Access🔓)  

• Villares Maldonado, R. (2017). Project Work as a Tool to Develop Intercultural Competence from an ELF Perspective in Secondary Education. In G. Nieto Caballero (ed.), Nuevas aportaciones al estudio y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras (pp. 107-122). Universidad de Extremadura servicios de publicaciones. ISBN: 978-84-608-9678-4. http://dehesa.unex.es/handle/10662/5263 (Open Access🔓)

Book reviews

• Villares, R. (2022). Book review of Science Communication on the Internet by M.J. Luzón & C. Pérez-Llantada, John Benjamins, 2019.  Miscelanea: A journal of American and English studies, 66, 207-211. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20227165 

• Villares, R. (2020).  Book review of Bocanegra-Valle, A. (Ed.). (2020). Applied Linguistics and Knowledge Transfer. Employability, Internationalisation and Social Challenges. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3719-9 (324 pages). RAEL revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada, 19(2), 145-149. http://www.aesla.org.es/ojs/index.php/RAEL/article/view/445

• Villares, R. (2020). Book review of The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education. Language Policy and Internationalisation in Catalonia by Josep Soler and Lídia Gallego-Balsà. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Miscelanea: A journal of American and English studies, 61, 137-143. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205145