Esteban López Medina

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Department of Language and Literature Didactics (Spanish, French and English)

The 21st-century digital society has brought with it an overflow of information which makes it more urgent than ever to develop critical skills and the ability to think for oneself. The theories of education have stressed this need for long, but the recent, emerging inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people in formal lessons, even if frequently contested by some...

Social research into English Language Teaching (ELT) has a long history. Within it, gender studies have gained ground in recent decades, with special focus on materials and resources. However, a proper integration of the category of femininity has not yet been achieved. The article offers an ample, argumentative, narrative literature review of the...

The urge to turn the teaching of English as a foreign language into an inclusive and diverse space has recently become greater. For a few decades now, it has been highlighted the need for learners to develop not only their communicative competence, but also the intercultural one. However, the gap between these abstract expectations and specific tea...

Con la irrupción de la COVID-19, la comunidad educativa necesitado incorporar nuevos enfoques metodológicos para enfrentarse a las formas de docencia que ha requerido el escenario de pandemia. Uno de estos enfoques es la gamificación (introducir contenidos educativos de manera lúdica). En la Educación Superior, la gamificación ha de tener un nivel...

Las iniciativas para incluir la diversidad afectivo-sexogenérica en el currículum escolar se han multiplicado en los últimos años. Lamentablemente, al menos en el contexto hispanohablante, estas carecen de un marco teórico suficiente para conceptualizar y sistematizar su metodología didáctica. En este artículo se propone asumir –y clonar en español...

The COVID pandemic upset traditional academic life and turned makeshift online solutions a probable long-term feature of university, therefore, the general objective of this study was to know about the online teaching/learning experience for students and professors in universities that are part of the project ERASMUS + KA2 called STROLL: Walking th...

La vigilancia sobre los cuerpos de las personas trans en contextos urbanos es continua. Sin embargo, considero que se pueden construir espacios de resistencia en el medio natural, y que las experiencias al aire libre pueden ayudar a crear resiliencia para superar problemas relacionados con el ser trans que puedan darse en las ciudades. El presente...

Las recomendaciones para la utilización no sexista de la lengua española son abundantes. Con el fin de descubrir si este criterio es efectivamente considerado en la evaluación de Trabajos de Fin de Grado, el estudio analiza las rúbricas de las universidades públicas presenciales de la Comunidad de Madrid para el grado en Educación Infantil, así com...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted higher university lecturers to develop their digital skills in order to adapt to online teaching. A group of university teachers decided to evaluate the educational uses of Mentimeter to promote student participation and active learning. A questionnaire was answered by 400 students and 12 participating academics....