
Profile
Ms. Blasco García has an MPhil in the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad Nebrija, a Master of Education in Applied Linguistics from The University of Liverpool, and an MA in English Studies from Universidad de Sevilla, where she completed her undergraduate studies in English Philology.
Ms. Blasco García joined the University of Hong Kong in 1993. She was instrumental in the setting up and development of the Spanish Programme at HKU and has been its Director since it was established. She has lent her expertise in developing language programmes to institutions outside HKU, first as an adviser and later as external examiner for their Spanish Programs. Additionally, she collaborates with institutions across Hong Kong in the promotion of the Spanish language and cultures.
Her research interests are in the area of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, with a particular interest in Telecollaboration in language learning, Intercultural development, the teaching of Culture and Translation in the foreign language classroom and the development of Spanish studies in Asia. She translated David Nunan’s book on Task-based Language Teaching into Spanish and she is a regular article reviewer for journals specialised on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language .
Ms. Blasco García teaches general language courses at all levels and also upper division courses ranging from Culture to Translation and Learner Autonomy. She was awarded the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2015-16.

Tel. No.
39172038
Office
517, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
HKU Scholars Hub
ORCID
Region and Language
Spanish
Research Area
Development of Spanish studies in Asia (focus on Hong Kong), Intercultural development in the language classroom, Telecollaboration
Key Publications
Book Chapter
Enseñar español en Hong Kong
Atlas del ELE. Geolingüística de la enseñanza del español en el mundo. Volumen II. Asia oriental, ed. María del Carmen Méndez Santos and María del Mar Galindo Merino (enClave-ELE, 2022), 183–204.
Rocío Blasco García and Álvaro Acosta Corte
enClave-ELE
2022
Paperback: 9788418731396
Book Chapter
The ‘glocalization’ of Spanish in Asia: Spanish Language Study and Familial Use in Hong Kong
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City, ed. Andrew Lynch (Routledge, 2020), 17–42.
Álvaro Acosta Corte and Rocío Blasco García
Routledge
2020
Hardcover: 9781138860667 | Paperback: 9780367783822 | E-Book: 9781315716350
Article
El español en Hong Kong: una lengua minoritaria en auge
Archiletras Scientific: Journal of Language and Literature Research, Special Issue: Spanish, a migratory language, ed. Francisco Moreno Fernández 2 (2019): 211–28.
Álvaro Acosta Corte and Rocío Blasco García
Prensa y Servicios de la Lengua SLU
2019
Print: 2659-8957
Book Chapter
Spain: One Country, Many Regional Identities
European National Identities: Elements, Transitions, Conflicts, ed. Roland Vogt, Wayne Cistaudo, and Andreas Leutzsch (Transaction Publishers, 2014), 213–32.
Rocío Blasco García
Transaction Publishers
2014
Hardcover: 9781412852685 | Paperback: 9781138509795 | E-Book: 9781351296489
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