Rebeca Muñoz Valero

Rebeca Muñoz Valero works as a language lecturer at the Spanish Division of the Global Cultures & Languages Hub of Xian Jiatong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), currently teaching modules SPA011 (S1), SPA001 (S1) and SPA002 (S2). Holds a PhD in Arts Humanities, a BA in Spanish Studies, a MA in Advanced Linguistic Studies, a MA in Teaching Spanish Language Literature and its experienced in experiential learning activities as well as teaching ELE (Spanish as a second language).

Current roles: SPA011 MC, LTiC magazine's Spanish editor at the XJTLU Global Languages & Cultures Hub as well Academic Enhancement Found (AEF) reviewer, SPA011 Continuing Support teacher. 

Research interests focused mainly on Sociolinguistics, including language attitudes, language stigmatization, covert prestige and bi-dialectalism (dialect vs standart language) and second language acqusition, also interested on second language T&L, especially methodologies, materials development with AI and listening skills.  

Languages' economic value 

Covert prestige

Language stigmatization

Spanish Studies

Language death / Dialect death

Language market theory

Language standarization

Bi-dialectalism (especially standard variety vs dialect)

Second Language Teaching/Acquisition

Listening skills in second language teaching and learning (2L T&L)

2L T&L materials' development with AI 

Language attitudes (e.g. language attitudes towards standard and non-standard varieties, second language acquisition, accents, sociolects, dialects, bilingual territories’ language policy)

Language prestige

"The two sides of covert prestige in Spain: Cognitive vs affective components applied in language attitudes' research", September 2025. Paper published in the International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, DOI: 10.56734/ijahss. 

"The two sides of covert prestige: cognitive and affective components. A case of Spain", June 2024. Paper presented at the International Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS25) in Curtin University (West Australia). 

"Designing interactive tasks with H5P technology to improve the listening skills in second languagae teaching and learning", May 2024. Paper presented at the XJTLU Annual Transforming Education Conference. Paper published by CEIE in September 2024.  

"La clase social: una variable escurridiza", 2019. Poster presented and published at IV Jornadas Doctorales Escuela Internacional de Doctorado de la Universidad de Murcia (EDITUM), 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-09200-0, págs. 1046-1047

"Estudios de pragmática y traducción", 2015. Silvia Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Sara Henter & Rebeca Muñoz-Valero (Eds.) Book published in EDITUM. University of Murcia, Spain. 

"Perspectivas lingüísticas", 2015. Silvia Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Sara Henter & Rebeca Muñoz-Valero (Eds.) Book published in EDITUM. University of Murcia, Spain.

Teacher of Spanish Language Literature and Spanish as a second language at ELIS Villamartín (Spain)

Lecturer in Spanish at the UK off-campus Bader College (Queen’s University, Canada)

Field Studies Assistant at the UK off-campus Bader College (Queen’s University, Canada)

Teacher of Spanish as a second language at Königin (Spain)

Development of Listening materials and interactive tasks with H5P in a group project for SPA002 modules. This project recently won the Linghang Cup Teachers Information Literacy Enhancement Competition (Jiangsu Province) 2024 DoE

Collaborated in reading materials development with AI in a group project for SPA001 modules (AY 2024/2025, S1)