Dr Francisco Melara Gutierrez
International Short Programme Unit Coordinator
About
Role:
Francisco is a Senior Lecturer who coordinates the International Provision in Education.
Experience:
Francisco teaches on the International Programmes and the BA in Education, modules on Bilingual Education, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Teaching and Learning Methods, Cross-Cultural Communication, Action Research, School Performance Data Analysis, and Comparative Education.
Academic Background, Research and Publications:
Francisco has an academic background in Languages, Educational Psychology, and Education Research.
Francisco has more than twenty years of experience in teaching across multiple levels in Education: Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Adult Education, along with undergraduate level and Professional Development for Teachers and Headteachers from multiple countries: Estonia, Poland, Italy, Germany, Romania, Turkey, France, the UK, Spain, China, Japan, and South Korea.
He is an active member of the SEJ-149 research group dedicated to educational assessment and teaching innovation.
His current research focuses primarily on Effective Teaching and Teacher Development in monolingual and bilingual environments.
Research interests:
- Language, Behaviour and Effective Teaching and Learning
- Specific Area: How relationships between educators and learners influence children’s emotional development, self-efficacy and motivation, and how these in turn may provide essential conditions for effective learning. (Monolingual and Bilingual/Multilingual Environments)
- Research Methods in Education and Psychology
- Educational Assessment
- Development of Teaching Competences
Key Publications
(2018) Effective Teaching in the Sphere of Bilingual Education: Profile of Teaching Competences
In Nuevas perspectivas en educación bilingüe: investigación e innovación.
Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada.
ISBN 978-84-338-0000-0
(2016) Sketching the figure of a bilingual teacher: designing a profile of competences
In Revista Española de Pedagogía (vol. 2614 p. 129-152)
Sociedad Española de Pedagogía, Madrid. ISSN: 0034-9461
(2015) Teacher training within the framework of Andalusia’s language policies
In Digital Education Journal: “Andalucia Educativa” N.85
(2014) What expectations does the education community have of school counselling departments?
In Book: TEEM´14. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (p. 503-506) New York, ACM
ISBN: 978-1-4503-2896-8 Doi: 10.1145/2669711.2669946
(2013) Designing the profile of competences for primary school teachers specialising in CLIL teaching (Content and Language Integrated Learning)
In Book: XVI National/II International Congress on Models in Educational Research: Educational Research and Innovation in the service of global, plural, and diverse institutions and communities (p. 1336-1344) Alicante (Spain)
ISBN: 978-84-695-8363-0
(2011) Integrated practical credits for educational skills training
In Book: Experiences of shared work in the classroom. A proposal from the INVADIV research group (p. 64-72) Córdoba (Spain)
(2009) Developing an instrument to evaluate the competence of Mathematics through a streaming methodology
In E. Nieto Lopez and A.I. Callejas Albiñana (Coords.). Basic competences. Reflections and experiences (p.131-143) Ciudad Real (Spain)
ISBN: 978-84-692-3804-2