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Matilde Gallardo

Staff Tutor (Languages)/Senior Lecturer

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Department of Languages


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Dr. Matilde Gallardo

Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages
Staff Tutor

The Open University in the South East

 

 

      

Teaching Interests

TEACHING
 
My academic background is in the field of Hispanic Studies and applied language teaching and learning combined with substantial experience in language teaching, curriculum design and language study skills development at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. I have taught in Spain and in England at Queen Mary College and King’s College London (University of London) and at London South Bank University.
 
 As a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages I supervise post-graduate research students in the Ed.D. programme (Modern Foreign Languages strand) and I am a member of the Spanish Diploma modules teams "L204, Viento en Popa, Upper Intermediate" and "L314 A Buen Puerto" . I am also a member of CREET, the research group in FELS.
 
As a Staff Tutor in the South East (Kent, Surrey and Sussex),  I am responsible for managing, training and supporting the MFL Associate Lecturers team in the region. As the Faculty representative in the South East, I have responsibility for coordinating the delivery of language modules (English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Welsh) and supporting our students and tutors. I´m also involved in outreach and widening participation initiatives involving schools and FE colleges. In 2006-2008 I coordinated the Aimhigher Kent and Language Project and more recently the partnership with Aimhigher Sussex to develop a language project in secondary schools.
 

Research Interests

Current research interests are in the filed of applied linguistics and more specifically in the area of language and cultural learning, exploring aspects of teachers´ cultural identity, students´ motivation and reflective learning using online communication tools and resources.

Other areas of research include history of language teaching and sociolinguistics.

Current Research

"Language and Cultural Learning using Online Collaborative Tools".

"Developing Intercultural Competence among Distance Language Learners through blended learning environments: an insight into teachers´ views and practices". As part of the ICC research group in the Department of Languages.

"Integrating LORO into professional development for Associate Lecturers". As part of the research group in the Department of Languages. 

Publications

Authored Book
Gallardo-Barbarroja, M (2003). Introducción y desarrollo del espanol en el sistema universitario ingles durante el siglo XIX. Estudios de Linguistica del Espanol, 20. Madrid: RedIRIS.
Book Chapter
Gallardo, Matilde; Heiser, Sarah and Nicolson, Margaret (2011). Teacher development for blended contexts. In: Nicolson, Margaret; Murphy, Linda and Southgate, Margaret eds. Language TEaching in Blended Contexts. Edinburgh, U.K.: Dunedin Academic Press, pp. 219–231.
Gallardo, Matilde; Heiser, Sarah and Nicolson, Margaret (2011). Practical approaches for teacher development. In: Nicolson, Margaret; Murphy, Linda and Southgate, Margaret eds. Language Teaching in Blended Contexts. Edinburgh, U.K.: Dunedin Academic Press, pp. 232–245.
Gallardo Barbarroja, Matilde (2011). “La lengua como expresión de la identidad nacional en los emigrados constitucionales. Algunas consideraciones sobre Blanco White y Alcalá Galiano”. In: Muñoz Sempere, Daniel and Alonso García, Gregorio eds. Londres y el liberalismo hispánico. La Cuestión Palpitante. Los siglos XVIII y XIX en España (17). Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Verbauert, pp. 257–274.
Gallardo, M. (2009). Heréticos, liberales y filólogos: la labor lingüística de los heterodoxos decimonónicos en Inglaterra. In: García Martín, J. M. and Gaviño Rodríguez, V. eds. Las ideas y realidades lingüísticas en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Universidad de Cadiz, pp. 189–204.
Gallardo, Matilde (2001). La construcción de la identidad femenina en los textos publicitarios; un estudio comparativo inglés y español. In: Hermosilla Alvarez, M. A. ed. Identidades Culturales, Actas del Congreso Internacional Identidades Culturales. Córdoba, Spain: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Córdoba, pp. 129–139.
Conference Item
Gallardo, M. (2010). El Proyecto Aimhigher, un ejemplo de iniciativa para promover el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural y lingüística en alumnos de Formación Profesional en Inglaterra. In: 1er Congreso Internacional en la Red sobre Interculturalidad y Educación. Estrategias de Intervención Socioeducativas, 1-21 March 2010, internet.
Gallardo, Matilde (2009). Promoting the study of languages in the South East through school-university partnerships: the Aimhigher Kent and Medway Languages Project. In: Languages in Higher Education Conference 2008: transitions and connections, 8-9 Jul 2008, University of York.
Gallardo, Matilde (2006). La perspectiva intercultural en los libros para la enseñanza de lenguas modernas.Un enfoque histórico. In: Caminos Actuales de la Historiografía Lingüística. Actas del V Congreso Internacional de la SEHL, November 2005, University of Murcia.
Journal Article
Gallardo, Matilde (2006). Anglo-Spanish grammar books published in England in the nineteenth century. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America, 83(1), pp. 73–98.
Other
Gallardo, Matilde and Eulry, Emeline (2009). Changing Attitudes towards Language and Cultural Learning in the South East. Aimhigher Kent and Medway, The Open University in the South East, UK.