Ms. Chus Fernández Prieto

Senior Lecturer in Spanish

E-mail: M.J.Fernandez@salford.ac.uk
Tel. +44 0161 295 4321
Room: Maxwell 820

Maria Jesús (Chus) Fernández is a native speaker of Spanish. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting. She has done professional lexicographic work and has worked as a freelance translator. She completed projects funded by the Teaching Quality Improvement Scheme for the development of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Translation Project Management. Chus is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also the coordinator of postgraduate student placements. Her research interests lie in the areas of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Terminology and Translation and Translator Training.

Publications

M. Argüello, J. Des, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, R. Perez, and H. Paniagua: Executing Medical Guidelines on the Web: Towards Next Generation Healthcare. Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, 2009.

R. Gacitua , M. Argüello, P. Sawyer, J. Des, R. Perez, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and H. Paniagua: A Collaborative Workflow for Building Ontologies: A Case Study in the Biomedical Field. The Third International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2009), Quarzazate (Morocco), 2009.

M. Argüello, J. Des, R. Perez, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and H. Paniagua: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) standards and the Semantic Edge: a case study of visualising clinical information from EHRs. 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim 2009) [In Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies], Cambridge (UK), 2009.

Chus Fernández Prieto and Francisca Sempere Linares, “Developing the translation project managers of the future – A simulation task for MA students”. Training the Translators of the Future, Ecole Supérieure Roi Fahd de Traduction, Tangier, 2008.

M. Argüello, J. Des, A. Thompson, H. Paniagua, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, and R. Perez: Enabling smooth integration between HL7 CDA and Medical Guidelines on the Web with an initial focus on Women's Health in General Practice. Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008), London 2008.

Chus Fernández y Malena Abad “Uso de diccionarios y herramientas de búsqueda nivel a nivel” I Jornadas Didácticas del IC Mánchester, 2008. Available from: http://www.mepsyd.es/redele/Biblioteca2009/Manchester2008.shtml

M. Argüello, J. Des, M.J. Fernandez-Prieto, R. Perez, and H. Paniagua: Enabling Reasoning on the Web: introducing a test-bed simulation framework. 2nd UKSim European Symposium on Computer Modelling and Simulation (EUROSIM-UKSim 2008), Liverpool 2008.

Argüello, M., Abusa, M.M., Fernandez Prieto, M.J., Brookes, V., Abanda, F.H.: A Web services-based annotation application for semantic annotation of highly specialised documents about the field of Marketing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4803 pp. 1135-1152, 2007.

Maria J. Fernandez Prieto, (2005), La enseñanza de la fraseología. Evaluación de recursos y propuestas didácticas., M.ª A. Castillo Carballo, O. Cruz Moya, J.M. García Platero y J. P. Mora Gutiérrez (coords.), Las gramáticas y los diccionarios en la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua: deseo y realidad (Proceedings of the XV International Conference of the Association for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language), Sevilla: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla.

Maria J. Fernandez Prieto, (2001),Materiales de español avanzado. Ventajas de la enseñanza asistida por ordernador. Martín Zorraquino, M.A. & Díez Pelegrín, C. (eds.) ¿Qué español enseñar? Norma y variación lingüística en la enseñanza del español a extranjeros. (Actas del XI Congreso Internacional de ASELE - Proceedings of the XI International Conference of the Association for Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language), Zaragoza: ASELE/Universidad de Zaragoza.

Maria J. Fernandez Prieto,Maroto Garcia, M, (2001),The SALCA project: Marketing Terminology in Spanish and English , Thelen, M & Lewandoska-Tomasczyk (eds.) Translation and Meaning, Maastricht: Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting

Maria J. Fernandez Prieto, (2000),Learning through Texts: Spanish CALL Courses, Improving Teaching in Higher Education, Heywood, J. (et al.), Salford: Salford University.