Full Professor

Name:	M.ª Elena Gómez Parra
Position:	Full Professor
Research group:	HUM-1006. Investigación en Educación Bilingüe e Intercultural (EbeI)
Telephone:	+ 34 957 218 406
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Address:	F. Ciencias de la Educación y Psicología 2ª Planta – Sección E

María Elena Gómez Parra is a Full Professor, affiliated with the Department of English and German Philologies at the University of Córdoba (UCO). Her area of expertise is bilingual and intercultural education. She leads the Research Group HUM-1006 entitled Bilingual and Intercultural Education (EBeI). She is the director of the Iberoamerican Network for Bilingual and Intercultural Education (IBIE) and is the Principal Investigator (PI) of three research projects on bilingualism. She has published in numerous international journals on second language learning, intercultural education, and bilingual education. She has participated as a researcher in many international projects (IP, Comenius, and KA2, among others), is the Director of the Erasmus Mundus Master's program Play, Education, Toys and Languages (PETaL), and has led the KA203 TEACUP project (Teachers, Culture, Pluri) (2019-1-ES01-KA203-064412). Additionally, she has participated as a speaker in international conferences related to bilingual education and intercultural education, and as an invited lecturer in important international meetings related to international cooperation (e.g., October 16, 2016, Africa Climate Talk, where she delivered a plenary lecture on the role of women in sustainable development). She has also been the director of bilingual teacher training courses (Primary Education, Early Childhood Education, and Secondary Education) at the Menéndez Pelayo International University (2017 and 2018), and the president of the International Conference on Bilingual Education (which has been organized continuously from 2015 to the present).

Main publications

• Gómez Parra, M. E., Golubeva, I., & Espejo Mohedano, R. (2021). Design and Validation of a Questionnaire for the Measurement of Students’ Perceptions of Intercultural Practices within Bilingual Secondary Schools in the European Context. Journal of Language & Education, 7(3), 58-75. https://doi.org/10.17323/jle.2021.11516
• Gómez Parra, M. E., & Hà, T. A. (2021). First steps towards intercultural education in Vietnam: exploring primary education teachers’ level of intercultural competence. Culture and Education, 33(1), 78-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2020.1859740
• Gómez-Parra, M. E. (2021). Impacto del aprendizaje de las habilidades del siglo XXI entre profesorado bilingüe en formación en modalidad virtual frente a modalidad presencial. Aula Abierta, 50(2), 593–602. https://doi.org/10.17811/rifie.50.2.2021.593-602
• Gómez-Parra, M. E., Huertas Abril, C. A., & Espejo-Mohedano, R. (2021). Key Factors to Evaluate the Impact of Bilingual Programs: Employability, Mobility and Intercultural Awareness. Porta Linguarum. 34, 93-109. https://doi.org/10.30827/portalin.v0i35.15453
• Gómez-Parra, M. E., & Espejo-Mohedano, R. (2020). A Comparative Study of Open-Access Websites for Autonomous Learning of English. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 10(2), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.4018./IJCALLT.2020040105
• Gómez Parra, M. E. (2023). Play as a Key Construct in Early Childhood Education CLIL. In Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education (pp. 101-113). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04768-8
• Gómez Parra, M. E., & Pfingsthorn, J. (2023). Teacher – Culture – Pluri: An International Initiative to Develop Open Educational Resources for Pluralistic Teaching in FL Teacher Education. English as an International Language Education. (Book series English Language Education, vol. 33) (pp. 177-198). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3_10 
• Gómez Parra, M. E. (2021). El enfoque PETaL. Educación bilingüe en la infancia: El enfoque PETaL. Peter Lang.
• Gómez Parra, M. E. (2020). Measuring intercultural learning through CLIL. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 9(1), 43-56. 2020. https://link.springer.com/article/10.7821/naer.2020.1.457
• Gómez Parra, M. E. (2023). The PETaL Approach to Bilingual and Intercultural Education in Early Childhood Education. Research Anthology on Early Childhood Development and School Transition in the Digital Era (pp. 41 – 62). Hershey (United States of America): IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7468-6.ch003

Research projects

• IP. LinguApp: Asegurando el Acceso al Aprendizaje Universal e Inclusivo de Segundas Lenguas (PRY208/17).
• IP. Facing Bilinguals: Study of Bilingual Education Programmes' Results through Social Data Analysis (EDU2017-84800-R).
• IP. Percepción del alumnado español sobre la utilidad esperada de la educación bilingüe (FoBE – Futuro de la Educación Bilingüe) (PID2021-127031OB-I00).

PhD Theses

1. 1. Music and bilingualism
   Dalia Bartoli
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum laude
   Defensa: 27/07/2022

2. The use of video as a tool to improve teaching practice and the construction of teachers' professional identity in CLIL settings
   Cristina Díaz Martín
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum laude
   Defensa: 17/06/2022

3. Análisis de las competencias traductológicas de los egresados de estudios de Posgrado especializados. Panorama actual en España y expectativas del mercado laboral.
   Rocío Márquez Garrido
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum laude
   Defensa: 09/06/2022

4. Estudio de los resultados de los programas de educación bilingüe en España mediante análisis de datos extraídos de redes sociales
   Francisco Javier Palacios Hidalgo
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum laude
   Defensa: 05/04/2022

5. Evaluación de la percepción y de la implicación del profesorado en la producción escrita del alumnado de Educación Básica en Ecuador
   Fátima Elizabeth Palacios Briones
   Calificación: Sobresaliente Cum Laude
   Defensa: 22/03/2022

6. Evaluación de la percepción y de la implicación del profesorado en la comprensión lectora del alumnado de Educación Básica en Ecuador (ECOLEC)
   Deborah Valerie Montesdeoca Arteaga
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum laude
   Defensa: 19/07/2021

7. Project title: Estudio traductológico de la oralidad en productos audiovisuales: el caso de Breaking Bad
   Vanessa Pérez Rodríguez
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum Laude
   Defensa: 17/02/2021

8. Aplicación didáctica de la asamblea en Educación Primaria para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera
   José Manuel Urbano Fernández
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum Laude
   Defensa: 20/11/2020

9. La etnomatemática como método de enseñanza-aprendizaje para el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural en Educación Primaria
   José Antonio Álvarez Pintor
   Calificación: Sobresaliente cum Laude
   Defensa: 19/11/2020

10. Un estudio intercultural sobre las relaciones entre la alfabetización en CALL y las actitudes de estudiantes y profesores de lenguas españoles e iraníes hacia CALL
    Dara Tafazoli
    Calificación: Sobresaliente cum Laude
    Defensa: 08/05/2020