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Oradores destacados / Keynote Speakers
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Geoff Lindsey es profesor honorario de Lingüística en el University College London y director del curso anual de fonética inglesa de la UCL. Es licenciado (con matrícula de honor) por la UCL y obtuvo su máster y su doctorado en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles. Contribuyó a la revisión de 1989 del Alfabeto Fonético Internacional y ha trabajado como analista forense del habla. Es coeditor del diccionario de pronunciación CUBE. Geoff ha impartido conferencias en países como el Reino Unido, Alemania, Italia, Finlandia y Japón, y también ha tenido una exitosa carrera creativa como guionista, escribiendo episodios de televisión para la BBC y para la película Magic Piano, que fue preseleccionada para los Óscar.
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Geoff Lindsey is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at University College London and Director of UCL’s annual English Phonetics Course. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors) from UCL and earned his Master’s and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He contributed to the 1989 revision of the International Phonetic Alphabet and has worked as a forensic speech analyst. He is co-editor of the CUBE pronunciation dictionary. Geoff has lectured in countries including the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland, and Japan, and has also enjoyed a successful creative career as a screenwriter, writing television episodes for the BBC and for the film Magic Piano, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
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Jane Setter es profesora de fonética en la Universidad de Reading, Reino Unido. Aunque probablemente sea más conocida por ser coeditora del *Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary* (CUP, 2011), también es autora de la obra dirigida al público general *Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s not what you say but how you say it (OUP 2019), coautora de Hong Kong English (EUP 2010) y coeditora de The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics (CUP 2022) y del Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice (OUP 2025), entre otros. Sus publicaciones de investigación se centran principalmente en la prosodia del habla, investigando la pronunciación y la fonología en los ingleses globales y en niños con diferencias en el habla y el lenguaje. Jane es miembro del National Teaching Fellowship de UK Advance HE y defensora de la participación pública en la investigación y del trabajo en colaboración con los estudiantes.
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Jane Setter is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. Although she is probably best known as co-editor of the Cambridge English Prolingual Dictionary (CUP, 2011), she is also the author of the general-interest work Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s not what you say but how you say it (OUP, 2019), co-author of Hong Kong English (EUP, 2010), and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics (CUP, 2022) and the Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice (OUP, 2025), among others. Her research publications focus primarily on speech prosody, investigating pronunciation and phonology in global English speakers and in children with speech and language differences. Jane is a National Teacher Fellow of UK Advance HE and an advocate for public engagement in research and collaborative work with students.
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Pablo Demarchi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Language and a Postgraduate Degree in English Language Teaching from Universidad del Salvador (USAL), a Master’s Degree in Institutional Communication from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), and a Specialisation Degree in Business Management and Administration from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He also completed the Contemporary Phonetics Programme at University College London (UCL) and is a licensed Private Pilot.
Throughout his career, Pablo has trained pilots and air traffic controllers to meet ICAO communication requirements, taught English at primary, secondary, and university levels, and currently lectures in English Phonetics at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). He is the Managing Director for Latin America at Path Examinations and regularly delivers presentations and talks at national and international conferences.
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Juan A. Ferretti holds a Master’s degree in TESOL and Applied Linguistics (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) and a PhD in Modern Languages (University of Salvador, Argentina). He has taught English Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies extensively at various higher education institutions. He is currently a professor of English Language, Grammar, and Contrastive Studies at USAL. He also coordinates the English Language undergraduate program at UTN, where he also teaches English Language and Literature. He has given numerous lectures on Advanced Language Teaching, the Language-Culture Interface, and Critical Discourse Analysis.
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Alastair Grant is a teacher trainer, ELT author and public speaker, and founder of Alastair Grant Teacher Training. He is the author of The Ghost in the Classroom and developer of Relational Authority in ELT, a framework for understanding authorship, relationships and teacher leadership in classrooms. Alastair is Head of English at Colegio Nuevo de Las Lomas in Buenos Aires. In 2025, he was appointed Visionary Expert at the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, responsible for English language consultancy on its Education for Life policy initiative. He has also worked for the Directorate of Languages in Education (DILEDU) at the Ministry of Education for the City of Buenos Aires. Alastair has managed and delivered the Cambridge Delta teaching diploma for International House in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. He has also taught at universities in Argentina and delivered teacher training internationally for universities, teachers’ associations, publishers and schools. He founded Together for Ukraine in 2022.
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Marina Grasso holds a degree in English Language and Literature from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor of the courses English Phonetics and Phonology 1 and 2. She completed her postgraduate studies at King’s College, University of London, obtaining a Master of Arts in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. She has been involved in research projects under the Argentine national system for professor-researchers since 2006. Based at the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Lingüísticas within the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, she has co-coordinated the research group known as FoCUs (Fonética/fonología, Contexto y Uso) since 2019. She is currently directing the research project ‘Teaching and Assessing Oral Skills in Additional Languages’ and co-directing the project ‘Contributions of Conversational Interaction Studies to the Teaching of Spanish as a Second and Foreign Language’. Her research enables her to combine her interest in oral communication with her teaching practice in higher education.
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Leopoldo Labastía is a teacher of English by Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado “Joaquín V. González”, and has a master´s degree in linguistics by Universidad Nacional del Comahue, and a doctorate in linguistics by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain. He’s an emeritus professor at Universidad Nacional del Comahue, and does research into English and Spanish prosody and pragmatics.
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Stella Palavecino, M.A. in TEFL is an award-winning phonology specialist, teacher trainer, author, materials writer, editor, and international language consultant based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She specializes in Phonetics and Phonology, with postgraduate qualifications in TEFL, ICT for Higher Education, and Pedagogy. Stella is widely recognized for her work in pronunciation instruction and phonological awareness. She currently serves as Pronunciation Special Interest Group (PronSIG) Coordinator for TESOL Spain, supporting professional development in pronunciation teaching within the international ELT community. She lectures in Phonetics and Phonology and English Diction at universities and teacher-training institutions. A frequent international conference speaker, she has delivered workshops, webinars, and teacher-training courses across a wide range of educational contexts. Stella is the creator and author of the Emo-Pron Stories series (https://emopronstories.com.ar/), an innovative collection of story-based resources that combine storytelling, EFL phonics, and technology to make pronunciation teaching engaging, inclusive, and accessible for young learners. Through stories, games, and songs, her work promotes phonological awareness and supports the development of reading and writing skills.
She is also a founding member of B.A. English House and the designer of the Assistantship in EFL Education programme for university students from Bristol and Manchester, UK.
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Andrea Perticone is a PhD candidate in Letters, specializing in Applied Linguistics, at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. She holds a BA in English, with a specialization in Linguistics and Language Acquisition, from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She also holds a postgraduate specialization in English Phonetics and Phonology from Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”, Buenos Aires, where she also obtained her degree as a Teacher of English. She is a Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Modern Languages of Universidad del Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires. She teaches Contrastive Phonetics and Phonology and Phonology Teaching Methodology in the Diploma Program in Phonetics and Phonology (USAL) and serves as Professor of Spanish Phonetics in the Speech and Language Therapy degree program at Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (UMSA). She formerly taught English Phonetics I and II, Laboratory Practice II, III and IV, First and Second Language Acquisition, and Academic Writing at Instituto Superior del Profesorado “Dr. Joaquín V. González”, as well as Phonetics II and Diction at Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She is a researcher at the Institute for Research in Humanities at USAL, a member of the Cuestiones del Lenguaje Research Group at Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and a researcher at LAFONN (Laboratory of Non-Native Phonology) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research focuses on the second language acquisition of English intonation and the psycholinguistic processes involved in interlanguage development. She has participated in numerous conferences and academic meetings as attendee, presenter, and member of academic committees, and has published articles in academic journals and edited volumes.
Francisco Zabala graduated as an English teacher from ISP «Dr. Joaquín V. González», where he also specialized both in segmental and suprasegmental English phonetics. He holds a Licenciatura in English (UTN) and a Maestría en Lengua Inglesa (Universidad de Belgrano). He has been a lecturer in English and Spanish phonology at several teacher training colleges and translation programmes, as well as some post-graduate courses. He is currently in charge of modules at ISP «Dr. Joaquín V. González», IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, UBA (Facultad de Derecho) and INSPT UTN. His main research areas are contrastive Spanish and English phonology together with pronunciation teaching.
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