María Elena Gómez-Parra

María Elena Gómez-Parra, Ph.D. graduated from the University of Granada as an English Philologist and then from the University of Córdoba as a PhD. She holds a Master in Distant Education. Currently, she is an interdisciplinary researcher working mainly within Intercultural Education, Bilingual Education, and English as a Foreign Language. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her key research areas include: interculture, bilingual education, early second language acquisition. Dr. Gómez Parra is the director of the Research Group HUM-1006 (Research in Bilingual and Intercultural Education); she is a full member of ATINER, the President of IBIE (Ibero-American Bilingual and Intercultural Education) Network since its foundation, the Director of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) entitled Play, Education, Toys and Languages (PETaL), the IP of the Research Project ‘LinguApp: LinguApp: asegurando el acceso al aprendizaje universal e inclusivo de segundas lenguas’ (Ref. no. PRY208/17, funded by Centro de Estudios Andaluces, July 2017-July 2019), and the IP of the Research Spanish National Project entitled ‘Facing Bilinguals: Study of Bilingual Education Programmes' Results through Social Data Analysis’ (2018-2021).

Publications

The PETaL Approach to Bilingual and Intercultural Education in Early Childhood Education
María-Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2023. 22 pages.
García and Flores state that new pedagogies must respond to the complex bilingualism of students and to the heterogeneous classes of the 21st century. The main goal of this...
The PETaL Approach to Bilingual and Intercultural Education in Early Childhood Education
María-Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2021. 22 pages.
García and Flores state that new pedagogies must respond to the complex bilingualism of students and to the heterogeneous classes of the 21st century. The main goal of this...
International Approaches to Bridging the Language Gap
Cristina-Aránzazu Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2020. 317 pages.
In the age of information, an essential priority in the context of international education is the development of language learning and its inconsistencies. The gap between...
International Perspectives on Modern Developments in Early Childhood Education
Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2020. 343 pages.
Through different approaches like toys and play, children explore and know the rules and symbols of their communities and recreate roles and situations that reflect their...
Handbook of Research on Bilingual and Intercultural Education
María Elena Gómez-Parra, Cristina Aránzazu Huertas Abril. © 2020. 550 pages.
As education becomes more globally accessible, the need increases for comprehensive education options with a special focus on bilingual and intercultural education. The...
Improving Teachers' Digital Competence to Bridge the Language Gap
Manuela Caravello, Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2020. 16 pages.
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....
Social Media Support and the Need of Counselling From Experts in Autonomous Language Learning: Challenges and Strategies for the 21st Century
María Elena Gómez-Parra, Cristina A. Huertas-Abril. © 2020. 16 pages.
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...
A Comparative Study of Open-Access Websites for Autonomous Learning of English
María Elena Gómez-Parra, Roberto Espejo-Mohedano. © 2020. 13 pages.
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) benefits from undeniable steps forward such as the use of authentic materials, real communicative contexts and the ubiquity of...
EFL Teachers' Perceptions on the Potential of MOOCs for Lifelong Learning
Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo, Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2020. 17 pages.
Despite its numerous advantages, globalization, information society and the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) have caused quick changes in society...
Intelligent Language Tutoring System: Integrating Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Into Language Education
Dara Tafazoli, Elena Gómez María, Cristina A. Huertas Abril. © 2019. 15 pages.
Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL) is a multidisciplinary area of research that combines natural language processing (NLP), intelligent tutoring system...
Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective
Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, María Elena Gómez-Parra. © 2018. 302 pages.
Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in...