Dr Francisco Melara Gutierrez

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