Iker Erdocia Iniguez
Dr
Iker Erdocia is Assistant Professor and Director of Research at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS). He also serves as Research Integrity Advocator of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Before joining Dublin City University, he held the position of Invited Lecturer at Université de Montréal (2013-2016).
Iker is President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. He is a Funded Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology. He is a member of the Linguistic Justice Society and working group member of the COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' (LITHME). He is also a member of the Institute for Future Media Democracy and Society (FuJo), the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies and the Applied Linguistics Research Group in DCU. He was executive committee member of the Language Policy group, British Association for Applied Linguistics. Iker is involved in public engagement activities as Chair of the Board of Directors of the NGO New Communities Partnership (NCP).
Iker is President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics. He is a Funded Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology. He is a member of the Linguistic Justice Society and working group member of the COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era' (LITHME). He is also a member of the Institute for Future Media Democracy and Society (FuJo), the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies and the Applied Linguistics Research Group in DCU. He was executive committee member of the Language Policy group, British Association for Applied Linguistics. Iker is involved in public engagement activities as Chair of the Board of Directors of the NGO New Communities Partnership (NCP).
Iker's research has been published in high-ranking journals within the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, including Language Policy (2018), Current Issues in Language Planning (2019 & 2021), Language Problems and Language Planning (2020), Linguistics and Education (2020), Journal of Sociolinguistics (2022 & 2024), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2022), Journal of Language and Politics (2022), Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication (2023), Higher Education (2024), The Language Learning Journal (2024) and Language, Culture and Society (2024), among others. He has also published a book (2018) on language teacher education. This investigation was awarded the ASELE (Association of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language) prize for the best PhD in 2017.
Iker's research projects have been funded by EU's Horizon Europe, the Irish Research Council, Royal Irish Academy/British Academy, DCU Research Initiative Scheme, and DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS Fellowship). He is currently involved in the Horizon Europe FOSTERLANG research project, which aims to have a transformative effect on how minoritised languages are protected, used and promoted in Europe. Iker is leading the Work Package ‘Counteracting digital exclusion: IT tools and resources for lesser used languages’.”
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Erdocia, I., Schneider, B., & Migge, B. (2024) 'Language is Not a Data Set – Why Overcoming Ideologies of Dataism is More Important Than Ever in the Age of AI'. Journal of Sociolinguistics, . | |
| 2024 | Soler, J., Erdocia, I., & Savski, K. (2024) '(Im)possible change: Criticality and constraints in the infrastructures of the academic knowledge economy'. Language, Culture and Society, . https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.00040.sol | |
| 2024 | Bruen, J., & Erdocia, I. (2024) 'Formal and informal foreign language learning at university: blurring the boundaries'. THE LANGUAGE LEARNING JOURNAL (ONLINE), . [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Erdocia, I., & Soler, J. (2024) 'In pursuit of epistemic authority in public intellectual engagement: the case of language and gender'. MULTILINGUA-JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL AND INTERLANGUAGE COMMUNICATION, . https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2023-0115 | |
| 2024 | Erdocia, I.; Soler, J. (2024) 'English language and the career progression of academics in Anglophone universities'. Higher Education, 88 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Erdocia, I., Nocchi, S., & Ruane, M. (2022) 'Ideas, power and agency: Policy actors and the formulation of language-in-education policy for multilingualism'. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, . | |
| 2022 | Erdocia, I. (2022) 'Language and culture wars: the far right’s struggle against gender-neutral language'. Journal of Language and Politics, . | |
| 2021 | Erdocia, I. (2021) 'Participation and deliberation in language policy: the case of gender-neutral language'. Current Issues in Language Planning, . | |
| 2022 | Erdocia, Iker; Soler, Josep (2022) 'Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia'. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 26 (1). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Erdocia, I. (2020) 'The politics of plurilingualism: Immersion, translanguaging, and school autonomy in Catalonia'. Linguistics and Education, . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2020.100865 | |
| 2020 | Erdocia, I. (2020) 'Language rights and groups of immigrant origin: the case of language claims in the Spanish cities in North Africa'. Language Problems and Language Planning, . https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.19025.erd | |
| 2020 | Erdocia, I., Nocchi, S., & Ruane, M. (2020) 'Language policy-making in Ireland: A preliminary study of the consultation process of 'Languages Connect''. JOURNAL OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 27 :98-127. https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v27i.224 | |
| 2020 | Soler, J. & Erdocia, I. (2020) 'Language policy and the status of languages in contemporary Catalonia: A public debate'. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE POLICY, 12 (2):215-234. https://doi.org/10.3828/ejlp.2020.11 | |
| 2019 | Erdocia, Iker (2019) 'Medium of instruction ideologies: accommodation of multilingualism in the bilingual regime of Navarre'. Current Issues in Language Planning, 20 (3). [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Bruzos, A.; Erdocia, I.; Khan, K. (2018) 'The path to naturalization in Spain: Old ideologies, new language testing regimes and the problem of test use'. Language Policy, 17 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Erdocia, I. (2016) 'Dimensión contextual y autonomía del aprendiente de lenguas'. . [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Erdocia, I. (2014) 'Autonomía y aprendizaje de lenguas'. . |
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | (2023) Language in public participation: Understanding and overcoming language and culture barriers in the political participation of people of migrant origin. Dublin City University, . [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2018 | Fondo, M., Jacobetty, P., & Erdocia, I (2018) 'Foreign language anxiety and self-disclosure analysis as personality traits for online synchronous intercultural exchange practice' In: Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters. Voillans, France : Research-publishing.net. [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Fondo, M., & Erdocia, I. (2018) 'Exploring foreign language anxiety and self-disclosure relationships in task design for e-tandem speaking practice' In: Future-proof CALL: language learning as exploration and encounters. Voillans, France : Research-publishing.net. [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Erdocia, I. (2014) 'Autorregulación y autonomía en el discurso de las competencias' In: Nuevo impulso educativo: Actualización de los nuevos sistemas educativos. Madrid : Visión Net. |
Conference Contribution
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Committees
Research Interests
Iker is committed to interdisciplinarity and adopts an eclectic approach to methodology. His research sits at the interface of language, policy and politics and aims to promote debate on language matters between academic and non-academic stakeholders. Iker's areas of interest include:
- Language in education;
- Language policy;
- Language and politics.
- Language in education;
- Language policy;
- Language and politics.
Two PhD students have completed their research projects under Iker's supervision and four are currently in progress. The topics of the projects are related to language policy in education, language teacher training, language teaching and learning, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Research students interested in working in any of these areas are encouraged to get in touch.