1.Rhetorical functions of citations in academic writing;
2.Rhetorical organization of the academic discourse;
3.Interculturalism in the rhetoric and sociopragmatic texts written in the second language;
4.Corpus linguistics applied to discursive features of genre analysis
5.Cognitive process involved in writing;
6.Acquisition of Spanish orthography as a foreign language;
7.Influence of affective factors in the learning of Spanish as a foreign language; and
8.Uses of learning strategies in the design of didactic materials.