Jorge Soto Almela

Jorge Soto Almela serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology at the University of Alicante, where he is affiliated with the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages and the Digital Language Learning (DL2) research group. Previously, he held teaching positions at the Catholic University of Murcia (2012-2019) and the Technical University of Madrid (2019-2021), with ongoing collaborations at the University of Milan.

His academic credentials include a PhD in Translation and Interpreting (University of Murcia, 2014), a Master's in Editorial Translation (2011), a Licentiate in Translation and Interpreting (English) (2009), and a Master's in Secondary Education Teacher Training (Universidad Católica San Antonio, 2014).

Professor Soto Almela's research integrates applied linguistics, translation studies, and corpus-based discourse analysis to investigate tourism promotion strategies, refugee representation in media, and transcreation phenomena. His work frequently employs Spanish-English contrastive methodologies to examine linguistic creativity in digital contexts, semantic preferences in migration discourse, and data-driven language pedagogy applications.

Recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward analyzing multimodal digital discourse (Instagram, Twitter) in tourism marketing and refugee narratives, while simultaneously advancing corpus-assisted language teaching frameworks like LEX-DDL for specialized domains such as health sciences communication.

As an active educator across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, he has developed innovative curricula in English linguistics, translation, and bilingualism, though specific advisee details remain unlisted in available sources. His research is supported through institutional frameworks including the DL2 group and Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages, where he contributes to language technology and cross-cultural communication initiatives.