Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Dr Ana Frankenberg-Garcia is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Surrey's Centre for Translation Studies within the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, alongside other advanced qualifications in Linguistics and History. Her work focuses on corpus linguistics, translation studies, and academic writing support, with particular expertise in lexicography and language data analysis.

Key research includes the ColloCaid project (AHRC-funded), developing a writing assistant for English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and analyzing parallel corpora like ZHEN (Chinese-English translation corpus). She collaborates with organizations such as Oxford Languages and has led projects like the Linguateca Portuguese-English parallel corpus.

Dr Frankenberg-Garcia supervises PhD students in translation and academic writing, including current candidate Prapaporn Sompakdee and completed theses by Yi Gu and Gustavo Zomer. Her publications include edited volumes on corpus applications in ESP/EAP writing and tools like ColloCaid, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to language learning and technology integration.