Teaching Essay-Writing from an ‘Appliable’ Linguistics Model

José Manuel Durán holds a university degree as a civil engineer (UBA), a later degree in English Language Teaching (I.S.P. “Dr. Joaqui?n V. González”) and an MA in English Language (Universidad de Belgrano). He is currently a professor of Discourse Analysis at the Master’s course in English Language at Universidad de Belgrano, and Intonation Pedagogy at the University Diploma in Phonetics Pedagogy, with Orientation in English Language, at Universidad Nacional de San Marti?n, and at Posti?tulo Técnico en Interpretación de Conferencias, I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. He is also teaching English Grammar I and II at Universidad de Belgrano, I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández” and E.N.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Sofi?a B. Spangenberg”. He is the author of An Introductory Course in English Grammar (2014), Towards a Phonological Characterisation of Unaccusative Verbs (2013) and editor and co-author of Exorcising Grammar (2016), and has published three refereed chapters and several refereed research articles. He has presented a number of papers at 50 international conferences on Linguistics, both in Argentine universities and abroad (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, United States, Uruguay). He is currently collaborating in an international project on a Trilingual Glossary on Applied Linguistics (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS) and is directing an interdisciplinary project on the syntax-phonology interface (I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”).