Dr. Francisco José Álvarez-Gil works mainly as a linguist, and teaching includes English language and linguistics, as well as Modern and contemporary English literature at the Departmento de Filología Moderna, Traducción e Interpretación, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has delivered talks on some linguistic aspects of Modern English scientific writing in international conferences of the field. He has been a visiting scholar in some reputed Universities with leading departments in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and he is currently a member of the research team of the project Identificación y análisis de las estrategias metadiscursivas en artículos científicos en español e inglés (supported by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad). His research interests primarily concern the analysis of specialised English from a synchronic and diachronic perspective, corpus linguistics, and language pedagogy at tertiary level.