Meet the Team

from
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Faculty of Education Sciences and Humanities

Co-director

Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Profª. Titular)

Mercedes Querol-Julián, PhD

Research interests

multimodal e-classroom interaction, multimodal literacy, English-medium instruction (EMI) at university, teacher professional development

Co-director

Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Profª. Titular)

Sonia Gutiérrez Gómez-Calcerrada, PhD

sonia.gutierrez@unir.net

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Research interests

clinical psychology, experimental psychology, educational psychology, educational inclusion, disability

Senior Lecturer in Education (Profª. Titular)

Eva Solera, PhD

eva.solera@unir.net

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Research interests

clinical psychology, educational psychology, educational inclusion, bullying, disability.

Lecturer in Spanish Philology (Profª Ajudante Doctor)

Gladys Luisa Villegas Paredes, PhD

gladys.villegas@unir.net

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Research interests

Intercultural communicative competence, intercultural awareness in Spanish as a foreign language, teacher training, teachers' discursive strategies and their roles in the acquisition of a second language

Lecturer in Psychology

Marta Becerril Galindo, PhD

marta.becerril@unir.net

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Research interests

educational psychology, socioemotional competences in teachers, psychosocial factors in education, inclusive processes and disability

Lecturer in Education

Sonja Andjelkov, PhD

sonja.andelkov@unir.net

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Research interests

EMI, ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education), CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), Second Language Acquisition, Teacher Training, and Co-Teaching in Higher Education

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Master's degree in Psycopedagogy

Elena Vilaverde López, PhD student

elena.vilaverde@unir.net

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Research interests

Professional development in higher and primary education, teachers' identity, acquisition and development of teacher competencies, competency frameworks and teacher evaluation, online instruction

Outreach coordinator

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Master's degree in teaching Spanish as a foreing languagei

Aarón Pérez Bernabeu, PhD student

aaron.perez@unir.net

ORCID ResearchGate WOS

Research interests

Spanish as foreign language (SFL) teaching pronunciation, Spanish Phonetics to interpreters, listening and oral tasks in SFL, online-based teaching training

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Master's degree in English language teaching

Sara Ferrer-Márquez, PhD student

sara.ferrer@unir.net

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Research interests

New technologies in education, gamification, online education, active methodologies

from other universities

Senior Lecturer in Education

Fei Victor Lim, PhD

National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

victor.lim@nie.edu.sg

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Research interests

Multiliteracies, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Digital Learning

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Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Prof Contratado Doctor)

Vicent Beltrán-Palanques, PhD

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universitat Jaume I (Spain)

vbeltran@uji.es

ORCID ResearchGate WOS

Research interests

ESP/EAP pedagogy, multimodal discourse analysis, multimodal literacy, English-medium instruction/education

Lecturer in Education

Mª Ángeles Velilla Sánchez, PhD

Faculty of Education. Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

mavelilla@unizar.es

ORCID ResearchGate WOS

Research interests

English-medium education at university, bi/multilingualism in education, multimodal e-classroom interaction, discourse analysis for science dissemination in online genres

Lecturer in Education

Maite Amondarain-Garrido, PhD

Universidad de Deusto (Spain)

maite.amondarain@unir.net

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Research interests

Bi/multilingualism in education, English as a foreing language in education, CLIL in Primary Education, translanguaging, multimodality, interpersonal relationships

PhD Students

Senior Lecturer in Education

Alexandra Staedtler, PhD student

alexandrastaedtler.psec@gmail.com

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Research interests

Educational psychology, emotions and language, second language learning and bilingualism, online learning, intercultural communication

Former members

Cristina De la Peña Álvarez, PhD, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). February 2023 - March 2025
Ingrid Mosquera-Gende, PhD. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). December 2020 - June 2024
Alexandra Santamaría Urbieta, PhD. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). April 2020 - April 2024
Nuria Brufau Alvira, PhD. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). November 2022 - April 2024
Peter Bannister. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain). November 2022 - April 2024
Teresa Morell, PhD. Universitat d'Alacant (Spain). April 2020 - November 2023
Natalia Norte, PhD. Universitat d'Alacant (Spain). April 2020 - November 2023
Elena Serrano Molla, PhD. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). April 2020 - December 2022

Meet the Team

from Universidad Internacional de La Rioja Faculty of Education Sciences and Humanities

from other universities

PhD Students

Former members

from
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Faculty of Education Sciences and Humanities