Elena Quintana-Toledo completed her PhD in English Philology in 2013 at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in English as a Foreign Language and Corpus Linguistics. She has also taught a number of courses and seminars in English for Specific Purposes at the Technical State University of Quevedo, Ecuador. She is a member of the research project IAMET (Identification and Analysis of Metadiscourse Strategies in English and Spanish, FFI2016-77941-P, Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness), currently underway at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her research interests include the analysis of specialised English scientific texts from a pragmatically-oriented perspective, and she has been recently engaged in the study of the relationship between modality and evidentiality, and its pedagogical implications.