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Senior Lecturer
Programme Director, Spanish Programme

Blasco-García Rocío

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Spanish Programme
DEA (MPhil) Universidad Nebrija
MEd University of Liverpool (UK)

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

Email

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Book

Ensenanza De Lenguas Basada En Tareas

trans. Rocío Blasco García (Editorial Edinumen, 2011).

Rocío Blasco García (translator) / David Nunan (author)

Editorial Edinumen

2011

Paperback: 9788498481969

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