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Miguel Fernández Álvarez has a Doctorate Degree in English Philology from the University of Granada. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the design and validation of the English component for the University Entrance Exam. Shortly after completing his doctorate, he completed a Master's in language testing at the University of Lancaster (United Kingdom). He began his professional career in education in the United States within the Visiting Teachers Program, where he worked for two years in the state of Georgia, teaching Spanish as a foreign language, and then seven years in the state of Illinois teaching in bilingual programs in secondary schools. In 2010, he began working at Chicago State University, where he coordinated the Bilingual Education program, at the same time that he taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In his tenure at CSU he became Full Professor. In April 2018, he began working in the Department of Linguistics Applied to Science and Technology at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where he teaches technical English for specific purposes within the field of construction in the ETS de Edificación.

He has participated in several research projects on language assessment and bilingual education. His research areas include bilingual education, second language acquisition and language assessment. He is the author of A Test Impact Study under the No Child Left Behind Act: The case of the ACCESS for ELLs, and has published numerous articles in the field of language assessment and bilingual education. He is currently working on language mediation issues and their implications for both teaching and assessment in the classroom.