Innovation in Language Learning
Inmaculada Senra Silva
Institution: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Country: Spain
Inmaculada Senra has been senior lecturer of English at the Department of Foreign Languages at the UNED, Madrid, Spain since 2010, where she teaches undergraduate courses in English as a foreign language, language variation and change and sociolinguistics, and Master’s Degree courses in language testing, materials design and language policy and planning of minority languages. She holds a European PhD in English language and linguistics from the University of Seville. She has taught at various Spanish universities, including the University of Seville, the Autonomous University of Madrid, and the Complutense University. Her career as a researcher began at Cornell University, NY, USA. During her predoctoral training, she participated as a researcher in various I+D projects together with members of her research group at the University of Seville. She has received various fellowships from the Spanish and Norwegian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Scientific Research Council of Norway to carry research at the Runic Archives in Olso.
She has been guest speaker in various universities and has enjoyed several research leaves (University of Bristol (2014-15), University of Cardiff (2018)). She coordinates the UNED Master’s Degree in English Applied Linguistics (MLIA). She has participated in the EU Lifelong Learning Project FluenCI: Fluency for Conversational Interaction.
Inmaculada Senra Silva has been invited to give academic talks in Spain, England, Argentina, among others. Dr. Senra Silva has presented her research in many international conferences, as a speaker and as a guest speaker. In line with her research and teaching activities, she has published articles on issues in FL acquisition and teaching and is co-author of English Skills for Independent Learners (C1) UNED/CUP, Gramática inglesa para Hispanohablantes UNED/CUP and Sounds Good (UNED). Some of her more recent publications are the following:
Chacón Beltrán, R. and I. Senra Silva. 2023. Gramática Inglesa para Hispanohablantes UNED. Madrid: UNED.
Senra Silva, I. 2023. Classroom English for Teachers. Madrid: UNED.
Senra Silva, I. 2023. "From language teaching to language assessment with the help of technological resources: higher education students and oral production". Revista ELIA 22: 93-123.
Senra Silva, I. 2021. “A Study on CLIL secondary school teachers in Spain: Views, concerns and needs”. Complutense Journal of English Studies 29: 49-68.
She has also been research member of numerous research projects in Spain. Dr. Senra Silva has coordinated the Erasmus+ project BiMo (Bilingualism in Monolingual Contexts) funded by the European Commission whose main objective was to deepen the views, impressions and needs of the parents in monolingual societies with implemented bilingual education programmes, and to establish synergies from societies with greater experience in everyday bilingualism and bilingual education programmes in a foreign language. As a result of this project, 3 MOOCs in 5 different languages have been created to help parents, teachers, schoolboards and society in general approach bilingual programmes. In this line, a radio programme and two TV programmes (programme I, programme II) have been broadcast.
Inmaculada Senra Silva has been part of the organizing committee of various conferences, the most recent being the international conference BiUNED2022: Bilingualism and bilingual education: Sociolinguistic approaches. She is a member of the LITHME researchers network (COST Action CA19102) on how new technologies will change language. One of LITHME’s main goals is to prepare language researchers for what is coming and to facilitate dialogue between linguists and technology developers.
Dr. Senra Silva is currently supervising three PhD thesis and has supervised many TFM within the MLIA. She regularly organizes the MLIA seminar aimed at young researchers, especially those enrolled in the MLIA, and has also been part of the organizing committee of the first LITHME training school (Ávila, 2020) aimed at a wide range of linguists, but especially young language researchers and tech developers.
Areas of expertise: higher education, school education, digital education, language teaching and learning, bilingual education, second language acquisition.
She has been guest speaker in various universities and has enjoyed several research leaves (University of Bristol (2014-15), University of Cardiff (2018)). She coordinates the UNED Master’s Degree in English Applied Linguistics (MLIA). She has participated in the EU Lifelong Learning Project FluenCI: Fluency for Conversational Interaction.
Inmaculada Senra Silva has been invited to give academic talks in Spain, England, Argentina, among others. Dr. Senra Silva has presented her research in many international conferences, as a speaker and as a guest speaker. In line with her research and teaching activities, she has published articles on issues in FL acquisition and teaching and is co-author of English Skills for Independent Learners (C1) UNED/CUP, Gramática inglesa para Hispanohablantes UNED/CUP and Sounds Good (UNED). Some of her more recent publications are the following:
Chacón Beltrán, R. and I. Senra Silva. 2023. Gramática Inglesa para Hispanohablantes UNED. Madrid: UNED.
Senra Silva, I. 2023. Classroom English for Teachers. Madrid: UNED.
Senra Silva, I. 2023. "From language teaching to language assessment with the help of technological resources: higher education students and oral production". Revista ELIA 22: 93-123.
Senra Silva, I. 2021. “A Study on CLIL secondary school teachers in Spain: Views, concerns and needs”. Complutense Journal of English Studies 29: 49-68.
She has also been research member of numerous research projects in Spain. Dr. Senra Silva has coordinated the Erasmus+ project BiMo (Bilingualism in Monolingual Contexts) funded by the European Commission whose main objective was to deepen the views, impressions and needs of the parents in monolingual societies with implemented bilingual education programmes, and to establish synergies from societies with greater experience in everyday bilingualism and bilingual education programmes in a foreign language. As a result of this project, 3 MOOCs in 5 different languages have been created to help parents, teachers, schoolboards and society in general approach bilingual programmes. In this line, a radio programme and two TV programmes (programme I, programme II) have been broadcast.
Inmaculada Senra Silva has been part of the organizing committee of various conferences, the most recent being the international conference BiUNED2022: Bilingualism and bilingual education: Sociolinguistic approaches. She is a member of the LITHME researchers network (COST Action CA19102) on how new technologies will change language. One of LITHME’s main goals is to prepare language researchers for what is coming and to facilitate dialogue between linguists and technology developers.
Dr. Senra Silva is currently supervising three PhD thesis and has supervised many TFM within the MLIA. She regularly organizes the MLIA seminar aimed at young researchers, especially those enrolled in the MLIA, and has also been part of the organizing committee of the first LITHME training school (Ávila, 2020) aimed at a wide range of linguists, but especially young language researchers and tech developers.
Areas of expertise: higher education, school education, digital education, language teaching and learning, bilingual education, second language acquisition.
