
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez
Dr / She / Her
Dr Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez is the Head of Spanish at the Open University. Mara has experience in teaching Spanish, linguistics and research methods applied to languages in Higher Education and she regularly teaches on Teacher Training Programmes. Over her career, Mara has conducted extensive research in the areas of Teaching and Learning Spanish, Historiography of Linguistics, Linguistic Typology and Sociolinguistics. Currently, she is co-leading the Diasporic identities and politics of language teaching strand of the AHRC-funded Language Acts and Worldmaking project and is a member of the research groups Linguistics in Language Teaching and Grama4. She is the Membership Secretary of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and a member of the Executvie Committee of the International Association of Spanish in Society.
Sessions in which Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez attends
- Opening remarks
- 8:40 AM EDT - 8:55 AM EDT | 15 minutes
- Join us for opening remarks from members of the organizing committee, from Graham Carr, President and Vice-Chancel...
- Session 1 (Theoretical Perspectives) - Session Chair: Tracy Heranic
- 9:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Workshop: Choose Your Own Content: a technology-based approach for automatically creating tailored grammar practice exercises from the web (Stephen Bodnar & Roy Lyster, McGill University, Canada)
- 2:45 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT | 1 hour
- Stephen Bodnar & Roy Lyster, McGill University, Canada
- Workshop
- Session 4 (Effective practices) - Session Chair: Gabriel Michaud
- 9:00 AM EDT - 10:30 AM EDT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Plenary talk by Greg Kessler : Innovation and the future of language teaching and learning
- 10:45 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- Greg Kessler, Professor of Instructional Technology at the Patton College of Education, Ohio Univ...
- Keynote