Elena Bañares

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of Didactics and Scholar Organization

Digital platforms are spaces for social participation with significant value in the development of the identity of adolescents and emerging adults. The objective is to identify the behavior and visibility of LGBT content using Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter posts of such content from May 16 to November 16, 2022, collecting 539,389 posts. Social med...

The present paper highlights that social inequality in some rural regions can substantially and harshly affect school coexistence. The present study is carried out in a Spanish rural school, and it aimed to understand which factors affected coexistence and generated situations of exclusion. Participant observation and the different voices in contra...

Social networks have been a turning point in the interaction, communication and learning of the population, especially since the confinement by COVID-19. The educational sphere is no stranger to this phenomenon, with an adaptation taking place in parallel to that of society. Of all the social networks, Instagram, Tik-Tok and YouTube are the ones th...

The present study analyses a group of students' multimodal productions who are learning a second language within a cooperative learning context using the iPad in a 1:1 format. They turn the act of creating free narrative written texts into a complex communicative process where two modes of representation are employed: written text and still images....

The chapter explores a methodological approach where creativity is encouraged through the production of multimodal iPad-mediated narrative texts in the English as a foreign language classroom (EFL) in secondary education. The study, which is based on creativity of human language, evaluates the multimodal productions of a group of students of second...

The present study analyses a group of students' multimodal productions who are learning a second language within a cooperative learning context using the iPad in a 1:1 format. They turn the act of creating free narrative written texts into a complex communicative process where two modes of representation are employed: written text and still images....

Despite years of grammar instruction throughout their primary and secondary education, the oral and written production of intermediate nonnative speakers’ (NNSs) of English in the target language is riddled with relatively basic grammatical and lexical errors. This may be due to several reasons but mainly to a lack of exposure to real target langua...

The advent of mobile technologies (M-Learning) -iPads in particular- has opened a brand new scenario which exposes non native students of English (NNs) to real communicative situations in informal contexts –leisure time activities. Portability; hybridization; ubiquity; immediacy as well as instant connectivity; and the adaptability of its interface...

The study reported in this paper describes a Cooperative Learning (henceforth CL) experience in Secondary Education integrating mobile technologies –the iPad - to create free narrativeshortstories in the ESL classroom.The line of research the present studybelongs to is included in the project ‘Cooperative Learning in the inclusion of gifted student...

The main problem area when teaching English in the Spanish educational system is dealing with speaking skills. Day to day reality is 20 to 30 students per group, sharing the same mother tongue and three hours instruction a week. Due to excessive numbers, the difficulties in covering the syllabus, the amount of time requires in reporting and giving...

INTRODUCTION: ‘Blended Learning and types’ In the Web2.0 era, online communities of practice, instant access to data, collaborative work and sharing spaces, in which the user interacts and shares data with other users, seem to be the perfect allies for the creation of scenarios for ELT. Blended learning, or the combination of face-to-face instructi...