Marian Aleson-Carbonell is currently a tenured lecturer at the Department of Filología Inglesa (English Studies) at the University of Alicante, a position she holds from the year 2003. She is currently the Director of the Permanent University (UPUA) at the University of Alicante, a centre for older-adult training and research.

Her research focuses both on ESL/EFL (English as a Second or Foreign Language) and on Specialized Languages, in particular on written genres, the use of corpora, and specialized terminology. Her early research focused on the study of tourism terminology and the compilation of 1st and 2nd edition of the Diccionario de términos de turismo y de ocio (Dictionary of the Terminology of Tourism and Leisure) under the supervision of Dr Alcaraz Varó. From that moment on, she has always had a great interest in the study of LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes) in general (including Academic English), and in the language of Tourism in particular. She has participated in various national and international conferences, where she has presented different papers on those topics. She is currently preparing her PhD Dissertation on the promotion of Dark tourism in sites, museums and memorials related to  WW1 and WW2.

Her work on the application of ICT to learning and her research on the teaching of English to older adult learners are especially relevant. Moreover, she collaborates in some European Research Projects on innovative education, and elderly people’s training & preparation for active life; namely the BALL Project (Be Active Through Lifelong Learning), the PPS Project (Peer To Peer-Support Fostering Active Ageing), the project Edu-Sen-Net (Xarxa Educativa Sènior), and the SeLid project (Sènior´s Learning in the Digital Society). Nowadays, she coordinates the Erasmus+ HeiM project (Heritage in Motion) where she is developing some research on the specific English of Heritage aimed at the training of older adults based on the tenets of geragogy. She teaches courses on the language, culture, literature and civilization of English-speaking countries at the UPUA since 1999 and has coordinated the courses on Elementary English from 2000 to 2019.

As regards EMI, she currently coordinates the ‘Digital and Linguistic Tools Module’ of the Prof-teaching program, a professional development course for prospective EMI lecturers at the UA. She has also taught the ‘ICT Module’ in the UA training program for secondary school teachers from 2016 to 2020, which awarded the official CLIL certification in the Valencian Region. On these matters, she has collaborated with members of the UA ACQUA research group in EMI research and participated in advisory committees on the implementation of EMI and CLIL training programs at the UA.