Cristina Aránzazu Huertas Abril

University of Cordoba (Spain) | UCO · Department of English and German

This international replication study demonstrates how playing a video game is related to multiple dimensions of creativity in foreign language writing. In this research project, university students were asked to interact with a commercial murder mystery video game, Her Story, and produce a piece of creative writing, which was a replication with a n...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to explore new practices in language teacher education. English for Social Purposes and Cooperation, a socially-responsive and technology-friendly approach to English language learning, may help students around the world continue learning from home. This chapter analyzes the perceptions of a group of pr...

Si bien gobiernos e instituciones de todo el mundo parecen dirigir importantes esfuerzos para salvaguardar los derechos y la integridad de los miembros de la comunidad LGBTIQ+, en muchos casos la discriminación y la violencia hacia personas que no encajan en la cisheteronormatividad sigue siendo una realidad. Por eso, cada vez son más las iniciativ...

La realidad multicultural de la sociedad es cada vez es más evidente en España. Una de las principales razones que explican esta situación es el aumento de personas migrantes que llegan al país que, lejos de vivir en una situación socioeconómica similar a la de la población autóctona, experimentan graves problemas de precariedad, exclusión social e...

En los últimos años, se han producido importantes avances en materia de protección de los derechos de las personas pertenecientes a la comunidad LGBTIQ+. No obstante, la diversidad sexo-genérica sigue siendo hoy en día objeto de discriminación, exclusión y violencia y múltiples contextos. En este sentido, la aplicación de políticas inclusivas en el...

Este estudio tiene su origen en un proyecto de investigación e innovación docente titulado iPlay School of Music and Languages, participado por el Grupo de Investigación HUM-1006, Trinity College España-Portugal, y la Delegación Territorial de Educación, Deporte, Igualdad, Políticas Sociales y Conciliación de Córdoba (España), que consiste en la im...

21st-century EFL teachers are assumed to be properly trained to help develop future generations' language proficiency and digital literacy. Moreover, with the impact that the current pandemic has had on education, technology seems to be the only possible way to guarantee the continuity of teaching and learning. Considering that English is the most...

Research shows that learning tools play an important role in social interactions in curriculum integration. Online social integration and interactive modality have been identified as two success factors for online learning from the students' perspective. There is little research on students' perceptions on the use of eTwinning in higher education (...

Recently, the preference for Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) as standard models in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching has been called into question. In this sense, numerous scholars today advocate using a wider variety of accents (i.e., Scottish, Australian or Irish) for EFL learning based on the idea of World Englis...

As in other countries, bilingual/multilingual education has become widespread in Spain. However, research either focuses on Spanish programs’ implementation, students’ performance or teacher training, but not on their contribution to graduates’ self-perceived linguistic success (understood as a combination of intercultural competence, international...

eTwinning es un programa desarrollado por la Comisión Europea para promover, a través del uso de la tecnología educativa, la participación de los centros educativos europeos en asociaciones de carácter internacional, de las cuales se pueden beneficiar los centros de formación del profesorado europeos gracias a la modalidad “eTwinning for future tea...

Students of learning difficulties are the groups most in need of direct interaction in learning, and many concrete and sensitive tools and strategies

Promising presentation-Rana Abdullah Tahan PHD researcher https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-7740 Selecting the most appropriate accommodations, interventions, or remedial approaches to assist a struggling learner requires consideration of the student's learning profile, educational history and the resources available. Based on all the available info...

This study examines the perceptions of pre-service English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers of their skills to face emergency remote language teaching (ERLT) situations, and to determine whether these vary according to gender, age, university, or course. A cross-sectional survey model was used with 332 pre-service EFL teachers studying in two S...

Recently, there have been important advances in the protection of the rights of LGBTIQ+ people (Johnson, 2022), as well as in their acceptance in some countries (Flores, 2021). However, diversity based on gender identity and sexual orientation continues to be a target for discrimination, exclusion, and violence in multiple contexts. In this sense,...

In a world where digital practices are becoming more ubiquitous, language education needs to be continuously adapted to new, changing scenarios. As a consequence, innovative digital practices are transforming 21st-century language learning environments. Essential to 21st-century language education success is constant emphasis on learner needs and p...

El presente estudio nace de un proyecto de investigación e innovación docente titulado iPlay School of Music and Languages, participado por el Grupo de Investigación HUM-1006, Trinity College España-Portugal, y la Delegación Territorial de Educación, Deporte, Igualdad, Políticas Sociales y Conciliación de Córdoba, que prevé la impartición de clases...

El objetivo de este estudio es examinar la relación entre las respuestas fisiológicas a la ansiedad y la variable de género en la producción oral de una segunda lengua. Esta investigación indaga en la conceptualización de la ansiedad en una segunda lengua en el contexto de la producción oral, considerando las respuestas fisiológicas a la ansiedad y...

La educación bilingüe se ha extendido en España debido a su potencial para el aprendizaje de lenguas. Sin embargo, pocos estudios examinan las percepciones sobre el éxito lingüístico (como combinación de competencia intercultural, empleabilidad y movilidad) de los egresados de estos programas y el efecto de realizar cursos formativos en el extranje...

One of the sectors that has been deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is education: teachers and students have been forced to change the way they communicate, interact, teach, and learn during and after the lockdown derived from the pandemic. The objective of this exploratory mixed-methods study is to examine the perspective of Spanish Primary...

Up to now, research is limited when examining how gender identity and sexual orientation are addressed in the world’s educational systems, and studies in this field have mainly focused on analysing the stereotypes and invisibility of LGBTIQ+ people in coursebooks, as well as on the remaining fights against discrimination. Consequently, little has b...

La realidad aumentada (RA) y la realidad virtual (RV) destacan en los últimos años dentro de las tecnologías educativas emergentes debido especialmente a las numerosas posibilidades educativas que ofrecen sin necesidad de salir del aula, lo que queda reflejado en el aumento de los estudios sobre su potencial didáctico en distintos niveles y context...

La emergencia sanitaria provocada por la pandemia derivada de la COVID-19 ha supuesto que profesorado y alumnado deban enfrentarse a una serie de retos y demandas sin precedentes para garantizar la continuidad de la educación. En este contexto, la telecolaboración se ha erigido como una herramienta clave en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje y a...

English has become an essential language in Vietnam, and innovation in English teaching and learning has received considerable attention in recent years. Recognizing the importance of foreign languages, the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training has recently developed the National Foreign Languages Project 2020 and, according to this project...

Digital competence is of utmost importance due to its direct link to the use of technologies, a key ability in the 21st-century society. However, research analyses neither pre-service bilingual teachers’ digital competence nor its relationship with emergency remote teaching in situations such as that caused by COVID-19. Following a quantitative ana...

The profound evolution that Spanish language education has experienced since the passing of the first modern educational law in 1970 has led to improved students' proficiency. In this sense, traditional foreign language teaching has been gradually substituted by Bilingual Education in the country to promote language learning, intercultural competen...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have come to stay supported by the development of educational technologies, and within them Language MOOCs (LMOOCs) are a phenomenon that has risen expectations but also shown their limitations. This study aims at comparing students’ preferences from two universities (UCO, Spain, and ULS, Poland) regarding the le...

The consideration that the only goal of games is the achievement of entertainment is still commonly accepted, although there is now an outgrowing perspective that believes in the use of games to promote learning. This exploratory quantitative research examines both in-service and pre-service Spanish teacher perceptions (n = 112) about using digital...

Foreign language proficiency and digital literacy are key aspects of today's education. Consequently, if teachers are responsible for providing students with opportunities for the best learning experiences so that they can discover their potential and put their skills into practice, it seems evident that the competences of these professionals canno...

Bilingual programs have become more common in higher education around the world in an attempt to provide learners with the education they need to face today’s world. These programs can provide academic, linguistic, intercultural, and professional benefits to students. Consequently, countries like Spain have developed bilingual education to help stu...

Emergency Remote Language Teaching is a new term coined after the concept of Emergency Remote Teaching (Hodges, et al., 2020), which emphasizes that teaching that is being done during emergencies and crises, as the pandemic caused by COVID-19, is neither distance nor online teaching properly. This paper explores the attitudes and perceptions of pre...

Language learning, as a means to promote intercultural awareness and communication as well as to help citizens prosper professionally, is one of today’s main goals of educational systems around the world. In Europe, several guidelines have been published, and significant efforts have been devoted to encouraging the development of the quality of for...

ENGLISH WRITING IS THOUGHT TO BE AN ESSENTIAL SKILL FOR SUCCESS IN THE MODERN GLOBAL ECONOMY. MANY EXPERTS WOULD GO AS FAR TO SAY THAT WITHOUT CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE

In a changing, dynamic world increasingly dependent on technologies, it is necessary to educate children so that they can participate fully in today’s and future society. Literacy thus needs much more than the traditional approaches to reading and writing in students’ first language. After analyzing the concept and implications of new literacies in...

English for Social Purposes and Cooperation (A1-C1)

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to explore new practices in language teacher education. English for Social Purposes and Cooperation, a socially-responsive and technology-friendly approach to English language learning, may help students around the world continue learning from home. This chapter analyzes the perceptions of a group of pr...

In recent decades, educational technologies have enabled new opportunities for teaching and learning on a recurrent basis. In contemporary educational contexts, which are mainly oriented towards active methodologies and student-centered approaches, educational technologies have led to a significant breakthrough in education. Among emergent educatio...

European countries and their regions are trying to develop quality foreign language policies to help citizens become communicatively competent. The Spanish region of Andalusia has implemented Bilingual Education since 2005, whereas in the United Kingdom the take-up rates of languages in schools are low despite the linguistic demands that Brexit wil...

En el proceso actual de implementación de políticas plurilingües, especialmente gracias al denominado “Programa de la Trinidad de Lenguas”, la República de Kazajstán se está esforzando por utilizar la educación plurilingüe como instrumento fundamental para lograr la competencia lingüística en tres idiomas: kazajo, ruso e inglés. Al tratarse de una...

Peer assessment (PA) has proven to promote motivation towards learning and reduce anxiety while fostering critical thinking. However, there is limited research on pre-service teachers’ perceptions and concerns regarding its application in their lessons, and hardly any study addresses the opinions of pre-service primary bilingual teachers. This pape...

The study aimed to identify behavioral and academic disorders' manifestations for students with learning difficulties for the elementary stage in Jerusalem, Israel, from the teacher's perspective. The researcher used the descriptive approach appropriately for the purposes and objectives of the study and data. They gathered the data using the first...

The importance of bilingual education is widely debated in the scientific world; it represents an opportunity for millions of international students in the 21st century, endorsed with varied benefits, including cognitive, neurolinguistic, socio-cultural, academic or labor, among others. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of b...

UCOPress - Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba ISBN: 978-84-9927-621-2, 2021 English for Social Purposes and Cooperation (A1-C1) M.ª Elena Gómez Parra - Cristina A. Huertas-Abril (Editoras) (Serie Edición Bilingüe e Intercultural) © Varios Autores I am the author of Unit 22 on Animal Testing. © De esta edición: M.ª Elena Góme...

Higher education institutions have had to launch emergency remote teaching-learning (ERT) as the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic with the essential objective of suspending onsite lessons without interrupting teaching and learning processes. In this context, telecollaboration for emergency remote language learning and teaching (ERLT) is an...

Nowadays, learning and teaching processes cannot be understood without technology. Among all digital resources available for education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) stand as great online tools that can facilitate the learning process of any type of content. In this sense, literature about MOOCs’ implications in education has increased expone...

En el presente artículo se muestra el análisis del cambio de tipo de lenguaje soez u ofensivo en la versión doblada (VD) en español de la serie Breaking Bad (Gilligan, 2008-2013). Para realizar este análisis, se ha utilizado un modelo de análisis diseñado exprofeso (Pérez, 2018) para analizar los diferentes aspectos que influyen en la efectividad d...

The application of technology in teacher education has received significant attention recently. It would be, somehow, impossible to deny the necessity of integrating technology in language education. The deficiency and illiteracy in delivering technology-based practices into instruction are assumed as key challenges of teachers in 21st-century educ...

La escuela del siglo XXI incluye el enfoque intercultural con el objetivo de que la educación del individuo sea integral. En este sentido, muchas de las metodologías y dinámicas de aula no son las más adecuadas para abordar dicho objetivo con plenitud. Este estudio propuso el seguimiento de cinco grupos de estudiantes de Educación Primaria con el o...

Despite its numerous advantages, globalization, information society and the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) have caused quick changes in society, provoking the rapid obsolescence of knowledge and the appearance of new concepts. In this context, new professional demands for teachers are required to help students develop...

This cross-cultural qualitative study investigated the attitudes and perceptions of language students towards computer-assisted language learning (CALL). We examined the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of CALL in language education according to Iranian and Spanish students' perceptions and attitudes. In addition, we found out the...

Las oportunidades y beneficios que ofrece la educación bilingüe están fuera de duda. Son numerosos los estudios que analizan las diversas implementaciones internacionales de enfoques bilingües, en los que se mide la incidencia de parámetros tan interesantes como las políticas educativas, los factores metodológicos o, incluso, se estudia la aportaci...

Starting from Genette’s (1987) notion of ‘paratext’, which is the foundation of Yuste’s (2015) theory of ‘paratranslation’, this paper will analyse what happens, as far as the viewer’s experience is concerned, when an art work presents textual elements in a language different from the viewer’s language. To this end, we will identify the verbal elem...

Autonomous language learning is a hot topic in the scientific community as the omnipresence of ICT has increased its importance since the ‘90s. This chapter discusses the role of social media to increase learners' autonomy in 21st century society, and how it problematizes the situations in which learners are completely autonomous (e.g., language le...

This chapter aims to examine the digital skills that foreign language teachers must have in our global interconnected society and the ways in which they can acquire them. Pedagogical and digital innovation has been traveling along the same lines for some time. In recent years, however, in all fields of education—and more specifically in the didacti...

This chapter deals with the implementation of a teaching innovation in the context of higher education, based on the creation of 3D-videos through the use of cooperative learning and the development of digital teaching competence in English as a foreign language teacher training. Specifically, this methodological proposal is situated within the fra...

The usefulness of ICT in language learning is unquestionable nowadays. There are many digital educational resources available for foreign and second language teachers, materials which are progressively acquiring an important role in the teaching-learning process. In order to respond to the increasing presence of such technologies in the classroom,...

As education becomes more globally accessible, the need increases for comprehensive education options with a special focus on bilingual and intercultural education. The normalization of diversity and the acclimation of the students to various cultures and types of people are essential for success in the current world. The Handbook of Research on B...

El presente artículo muestra el análisis del cambio de categoría gramatical de una de las características más complejas de la traducción audiovisual (TAV): el lenguaje soez u ofensivo. Concretamente, este trabajo se centra en la traducción de este tipo de lenguaje en series, como el caso del doblaje en español dela serie estadounidense Breaking Bad...

El presente artículo muestra el análisis del cambio de categoría gramatical de una de las características más complejas de la traducción audiovisual (TAV): el lenguaje soez u ofensivo. Concretamente, este trabajo se centra en la traducción de este tipo de lenguaje en series, como el caso del doblaje en español de la serie estadounidense Breaking Ba...

La Educación Infantil se sitúa en el eje prioritario de los organismos internacionales y de las instituciones educativas que reclaman un currículo excelente en la escuela del siglo XXI. Se trata de una etapa educativa marcada por dos peculiaridades clave: su alto grado de especialización y la exigencia de una práctica docente caracterizada por el c...

The purpose of the present cross-cultural study was to explore the relationships of second and foreign language teachers' and students' attitudes towards Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in terms of their gender, age group, and educational level in two countries, Spain and Iran. The study was based on a sample of 318 language teachers and...

AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras) es el enfoque oficial europeo para la educación bilingüe, auspiciado por la Comisión Europea y fomentado por una cantidad ingente de investigación e implementación en todos los niveles educativos. Sin embargo, AICLE necesita de más investigación en el aula e interacciones que ofrezca...

Language learning, as we know it today, has experienced a Copernican turn that-among other reasons-finds its roots in an unprecedented technological revolution, the creation of real communicative contexts, students' motivation and need to learn new languages, and the ubiquity of learning. These factors make the combination of linguistic and digital...

Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) is a multidisciplinary area of research that combines natural language processing (NLP), intelligent tutoring system (ITS), second language acquisition (SLA), and foreign language teaching and learning (FLTL). Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are able to p...

La enseñanza y el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas es una prioridad para la mayor parte de las políticas educativas internacionales. No es posible concebir el siglo XXI desprovisto del acceso a la información que se produce masivamente en inglés en los diversos campos de la ciencia, la cultura y la sociedad. Este trabajo analiza en profundidad el co...

La enseñanza y el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas es, hoy día, uno de los ejes educativos más importantes y con mayor relevancia en los organismos internacionales de referencia, erigiéndose como una prioridad para, entre otros, la Comisión Europea: «Linguistic and cultural diversity is one of the European Union’s major assets» en palabras de Vassil...

Resumen: El presente artículo aborda la evolución y el avance de las tecnologías del aprendizaje de lenguas asistido por ordenador (CALL por sus siglas en inglés, que corresponden a Computer- Assisted Language Learning) desde una perspectiva histórica. Esta revisión de la literatura sobre tecnologías del aprendizaje de lenguas asistido por ordenad...

El aprendizaje de lenguas se ha convertido en un objetivo clave en todas las etapas educativas debido a las demandas planteadas por la sociedad del siglo XXI que implican, entre otros aspectos, la necesidad de ser lingüísticamente competente en una segunda lengua (o lengua extranjera). Para fomentar dicho aprendizaje, países de todo el mundo implem...

The concept of “reading with gender on the agenda”, coined by Goodman (1996), fosters the reader to be aware not only about the literal content of the text, but also to reflect on the gender issues behind the words. Moreover, Goodman also coined the concept of ‘firing the canon’, which consists of defying the traditional canon which is mainly made...

The purpose of the present cross-cultural study was to explore the relationships of second and foreign language teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in terms of their gender, age group, and educational level in two countries, Spain and Iran. The study was based on a sample of 318 language teachers and...

This paper reviewed research on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) published articles in international reputable journals in between 2007 and 2017. The findings showed that, although, the contributions covered a wide spectrum of topics that illustrated prominent CALL research interests among scholars, most of the emphasis was on applying te...