In 2009, María José joined the English Department of the University of Murcia where she is currently working as a part-time lecturer. She is also a member of the LACELL research group within the English department specialised in corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography and foreign language teaching and learning, amongst others. Her teaching areas are English as an instrumental and specialised language in the Degrees of English, Spanish Language and Literature, and Law.She has attended international conferences such as The 12th International Bilkent University School of English Language Conference held in Ankara, Turkey; III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus held in Alicante or XIII Simposio Iberoamericano de Terminología, RITerm 2012. She has also published articles in scientific journals like ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, Journal of English Studies orCorpora and visited the universities of Portsmouth, Oslo and Cartagena as a guest researcher in the past two years.