Our Team
Alexandra Santamaría-Urbieta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Translation (Profª. Titular)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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tourist translation
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gamification
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innovation
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new technologies in education
Most recent publications:
Santamaría Urbieta, A., & Alcalde Peñalver, E. (Eds.). (2023) Learning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments. IGI Global.
Eva Solera, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Education (Profª. Titular)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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clinical psychology
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educational psychology
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educational inclusion
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bullying
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disability
Most recent publication
García González, J. M., Gutiérrez Gómez-Calcerrada, S., Solera Hernández, E., & Rios-Aguilar, S. (2023). The Twisting Road to Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities in Spain. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 70(5), 829-842. https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2021.1910932
Sonia Gutiérrez Gómez-Calcerrada, PhD
Lecturer in Psychology (Profª Contratado Doctor)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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clinical psychology
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experimental psychology
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educational psychology
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educational inclusion
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disability
Most recent publication
García González, J. M., Gutiérrez Gómez-Calcerrada, S., Solera Hernández, E., & Rios-Aguilar, S. (2023). The Twisting Road to Access to Higher Education for People with Disabilities in Spain. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 70(5), 829-842. https://doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2021.191093215598
Ingrid Mosquera-Gende, PhD
Lecturer in English Philology (Profª Contratado Doctor)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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Didactics
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ICT
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Online Education
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Informal Learning
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Active Learning
Most recent publication:
Mosquera Gende, I. (2022). Herramientas digitales colaborativas para la formación de futuros docentes en una universidad online. REDU. Revista de Docencia Universitaria, 20(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.4995/redu.2022.16806
Cristina De la Peña Álvarez, PhD
Lecturer in Education (Profª Contratado Doctor)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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Linguistic competence
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Learning disabilities
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Educational Neuropsychology
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Multimodal literacy
Most recent publication:
de-la-Peña, C., Chaves-Yuste, B. & Luque-Rojas, M.J. (2023). EFL in vocational training: improvement of linguistic competence from affective variables. The International Journal of Literacies, 31(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0136/CGP/v31i01/1-22.
Nuria Brufau Alvira, PhD
Lecturer in Translation (Profª Contratado Doctor)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
ORCID ResearchGate WOS
Research interests
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Translation Studies
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Gender Studies
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Cultural Studies
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Translation Studies Training
Most recent publication:
Brufau Alvira, N. (2016). La traducción de la(s) narrativa(s) de género y poscolonialismo: La traducción de la literatura chican-a al español. In I. Galanes Santos, A. Luna Alonso, S. Montero Küpper & Á. Fernández Rodríguez (Eds.) La traducción literaria. Nuevas investigaciones (pp. 247-270). Comares.
Gladys Luisa Villegas Paredes, PhD
Lecturer in Spanish Philology (Profª Ajudante Doctor)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
ORCID ResearchGate WOS
Research interests
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Intercultural communicative competence development in learning Spanish as a foreign language
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Virtual exchange and its effects on the linguistic, intercultural and digital competence of non-native Spanish speakers
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Intercultural awareness in Spanish as foreign language teacher training
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Teachers' discursive strategies and their roles in the adquisition of a second language
Most recent publication:
Villegas-Paredes, G., Canto, S., & Rodríguez Moranta, I. (2022). Telecolaboración y competencia comunicativa intercultural en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de ELE: un proyecto en educación superior. Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras, IV, 97-118. https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.vi.21446
https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/portalin/article/view/21446/23045
Maite Amondarain-Garrido, PhD
Lecturer in Education
Universidad de Deusto (Spain)
Research interests
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Bi/multilingualism in education
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EFL in education
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CLIL in Primary Education
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Translanguaging
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Multimodality
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Interpersonal relationships
Most recent publication
Querol-Julián, M. & Amondarain-Garrido, M. (In press). Listening to silence in Spanish and English-medium instruction online lectures. In V. Beltrán-Palanques & E. Bernad-Mechó (Eds.). Current trends in EMI and multimodality in higher education. Routledge
Mercedes Querol-Julián, PhD
Lead Researcher
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (Profª. Titular)
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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multimodal e-classroom interaction
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multimodal literacy
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English-medium education at university
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lecturer professional development
Most recent publication:
Querol-Julián, M. (2023). Multimodal interaction in English-medium instruction: How does a lecturer promote and enhance students’ participation in a live online lecture? Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2022.101207
Elena Vilaverde López, PhD student
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
ORCID ResearchGate WOS
Research interests
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Professional development in higher and primary education
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The effects of beliefs on teachers' identity construction
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Acquisition and development of teacher competencies
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Competency frameworks and teacher evaluation
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Online instruction
Most recent publication
Vilaverde López, E. (2020). Online instruction. A system for educational inclusion in the university setting (La enseñanza en línea. Un sistema para la inclusión educativa en el entorno universitario), Culture and Education, 32(1), 106-122, https://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2019.1705561
Aarón Pérez Bernabeu, PhD student
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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Spanish as foreign language (SFL) teaching pronunciation
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Spanish Phonetics to interpreters
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Listening and oral tasks in SFL
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Online-based teaching training
Most recent publication
Pérez Bernabeu, A. (2022). Fonética y Fonología. In Avances de la Lingüística y su aplicación didáctica. In A. Ariño Bizarro, B. Marqueta, & N. López Cortés (Eds.), Avances de la Lingüística y su aplicación didáctica (pp. 13-27). Akal
Our collaborators
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Vicent Beltrán Palanques - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciencies. Universitat Jaume I (Spain)
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Mª Ángeles Velilla Sánchez - Faculty of Education. Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
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Teresa Morell - Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
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Natalia Norte - Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Sara Ferrer-Márquez, PhD student
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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New technologies in education
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Gamification
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Online education
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Active methodologies
Most recent publication
Ferrer Marquez, S. (2018). Enfoque multisensorial y Flipped Classroom en el aula de inglés. Apeiron Ediciones.
Peter Bannister, PhD student
Predoctoral fellow
Faculty of Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
Research interests
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Machine Translation and Academic Integrity in EMI Programmes
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Gamification
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L2 Listening Pedagogy and Assessment
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Transnational Education and Internationalisation
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Cognition and Language Learning
Most recent publication
Bannister, P., Santamaría-Urbieta, A., & Alcalde-Peñalver, E. (2023). A Delphi Study on Generative Artificial Intelligence and English Medium Instruction Assessment: Implications for Social Justice. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 11(3), 53-80. https://doi.org/10.30466/IJLTR.2023.121406
Alexandra Staedtler, PhD student
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (Spain)
alexandrastaedtler.psec@gmail.com
ORCID ResearchGate WOS
Research interests
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Educational psychology
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Emotions and language
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Second language learning and bilinguism
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Online learning
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Intercultural communication
Vicent Beltrán-Palanques, PhD
Lecturer in Applied Lingüistics (Profª Contratado Doctor)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Universitat Jaume I (Spain)
Research interests
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ESP/EAP pedagogy
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multimodal discourse analysis
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multimodal literacy
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English-medium instruction/education.
Most recent publication:
Beltrán‐Palanques, V. (2023). Teaching elevator pitch presentations through a multimodal lens: Insights from ESP students' experiences. TESOL Journal, e769. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.769
Mª Ángeles Velilla Sánchez, PhD
Lecturer in Education
Faculty of Education. Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
ORCID ResearchGate WOS
Research interests
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English-medium education at university
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Bi/multilingualism in education
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Multimodal e-classroom interaction
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Discourse analysis for science dissemination in online genres
Most recent publication
Velilla, M.A. (In press). Localised practices of intercultural communication in EMI lectures: The impact of local cultural identity on academic meaning making processes”. In Álvarez, J., Quintana, E., Sánchez, M.E. (Eds) The (inter)cultural dimension in language learning. Peter Lang.
Visiting scholars
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PhD student - Mariangela Picciuolo - Università di Bologna (Italy) [Supervisors: Vicent Beltrán Palanques & Mercedes Querol-Julián] - Sept. 2022 - Mar. 2023