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  BARRASO ROMERO Victor Manuel
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Center for Language Education
   Position   Tenured Senior Lecturer
■ Education
1. 2010/04~2013/03 〔Doctorial Course〕 Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School, Division of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Completed, Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Culture Link
2. 2006/09~2008/06 〔Master Course〕, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Granada, Completed, Master's Degree in Arab and Hebrew Cultures: Al-Andalus and the Contemporary Arab World Link
■ Academic and professional experience
1. 2022/10~ Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Center for Language Education Tenured Senior Lecturer
2. 2021/10~2022/09 Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University Center for Language Education Center for Language Education Lecturer
3. 2017/10~2021/09 Waseda University Faculty of Political Sciences and Economics Lecturer
4. 2017/04~2021/09 Keio University Faculty of Economics Lecturer
5. 2017/04~2018/03 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Foreign Service Training Institute Lecturer
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■ Message
Let’s Learn a New Language!
Learning a new language sparks curiosity and opens your mind to new cultures. It helps you understand others, build respect for different traditions, and connect with people around the world—opening doors to friendships, travel, and future opportunities.
■ Current research
Pluralistic Language & Culture Approaches
Design Thinking in Language Education
Arabicisms in Spanish Language Teaching
Andalusian Agro-Botanical Texts
Arabic Loanwords in Austronesian Languages
■ Current specialized field
Sociolinguistics, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE), Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), Arabic & Islamic Studies, Al-Andalus, Arabic Language in Southeast Asia 
■ Books and theses
1. 2026/02 Article ‘Umdat al-Ṭabīb fī-Ma‘rifat al-Nabāt: Community and Territorial Consciousness of Al-Andalus in the 11th Century. Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos. Sección Árabe-Islam 75(2026) (Single) 
2. 2025/12 Article Arabic Loanwords in Indonesian Language: Recognition, Perceptions, and Usage among Contemporary Speakers *IN PROGRESS Lingua Cultura 19(2),pp.1 (Single) 
3. 2025/12 Book Beyond Borders and Languages Multilingual Practices in the ELE Classroom at a Japanese International University. Japanese Language Education that Fosters Active Learning Among University Students: Classroom Practices in Taiwan Born from Collaboration 2,pp.1 (Single) 
4. 2025/06/19 Article Arabic Loanwords in Basa Magindanawn: A Lexical Analysis Based on Juanmartí’s Moro-Maguindanao-Español Dictionary. Al-Kindi International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation. 8(6),pp.149-158 (Single)  Link
5. 2018/09/06 Article Agronomic and Botanical Areas in Al-Andalus: The Munya in Andalusian and North-African Arabic Sources. Journal of Liberal Arts 144,pp.147-169 (Single)  Link
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■ Academic or professional association memberships
1. 2025/04~ GIDE (Group of Research on Spanish Didactics) Link
2. 2024/02~ International Association of Multilingualism Link
3. 2024/02~ Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group Link
4. 2023/11~ AIDA (International Association of Arabic Dialectology) Link
5. 2023/10~ ASELE (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language) Link
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■ Conference presentations
1. 2025/12/06 La preparación del profesorado de ELE ante la realidad multilingüe: inclusión, empatía y buenas prácticas en contextos educativos diversos (II Encuentro de Experiencias Prácticas en la Enseñanza de ELE: CoreaELE 2025 EXPECTED)
2. 2025/11/29 The Multilingual ELE (Spanish as a Foreign Language) Class in Japan: Linguistic Profile and Learners' Attitudes Towards the Use of Other Languages in the Classroom. (III Congreso Internacional Desafíos del Español en la Universidad Wenzao) Link
3. 2025/11/15 Arabic Loanwords in Bahasa Indonesia: Recognition, Perceptions, and Usage Among Indonesian Speakers (56th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Indonesian Studies) Link
4. 2025/07/02 Arabic Loanwords in Basa Magindanawn: A Lexical Analysis Based on Juanmartí’s Moro-Maguindanao-Español Dictionary (KOLITA 23: The 23rd Atma Jaya Annual Linguistics Conference) Link
5. 2025/03/29 The Integration of Design Thinking Methodology in the ELE (Spanish as a Foreign Language) Classroom: Creativity, Problem Solving, and Empathy in the Classroom (SakurELE 2025 – 5th Meeting of Practical Experiences in ELE Teaching) Link
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■ Awards and honors
1. 2012/04 Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation Doctoral Course Scholarship
2. 2011/03 Japan Student Service Organization (JASSO) Honor Scholarship for Privately Financed International Students
3. 2003/10 ‘Ain Shams University Student Exchange Program Scholarship
4. 2002/05 University of Granada Initiation to Research Scholarship (Research Fellow)
5. 2000/07 Tel Aviv University Student Exchange Program Scholarship
■ Qualification and licenses
1. 2021/12/14 AVE Global(Cervantes Institute's Online Spanish Courses) Tutor Accreditation
2. 2021/07/01 Diploma of Teaching Accreditation of the Cervantes Institute (DADIC)
3. 2011/08/01 Certified Examiner of DELE (Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language) Tests: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, DELE Young Learners
4. 2024/09/13 Oxford Test of English Certificate of Proficiency B2 Link
5. 2024/01/10 DEPLE Diploma de Portuguese Lingua Estrangeira
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■ Educational ability
● Announcement concerning education
1. 2025/11/21 GIDE (Group of Research on Spanish Didactics) Workshop Link
2. 2025/01/30 Ritsumeikan APU-Asia Pacific Languages Faculty Development: The Incorporation of the Action-Oriented-Approach in the Spanish Language Classes at APU. Workshop
3. 2024/11/25 My Life in Seven Languages: Personal and Professional Impact of Being a Polyglot (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan) Workshop
4. 2024/01/31 Sharing Experience and Strategies for Integrating other Languages in the Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) Classroom, The University of Minnesota-APU Cooperative FD Program (Opening the World of Learning, 2023) Workshop
● Matter that should be mentioned specially in others educational activity
1. 2025/09/25~2025/09/28 EXPO 2025 Osaka - Spanish Pavillion (Presentation about Spanish Language and Culture)
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■ E-Mail address
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■ Homepage
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■ Researchmap researcher code
R000053373
■ External Researcher ID
orcID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3619-4414