Dr Maricarmen Gamero

Dr Maricarmen Gamero

EAP Teaching Fellow

Contact details

Email
m.b.gameromujica@bham.ac.uk
Address
Birmingham International Academy
Priorsfield
Edgbaston Park Road
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I currently work as an EAP tutor on pre-sessional courses, I specialise in equipping international students with the necessary academic English skills for successful university study.

Qualifications

PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (University of Warwick)

MA in English Language Teaching- Specialism Teacher Education- (University of Warwick)

Advanced Certification in English Language Teaching (ACE, University of Oregon, USA)

MSc in Education Research (Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela)

Bachelor’s Degree in Education- Specialism EFL- (Universidad Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela)

Biography

With over 20 years in the field of English language teaching, I have enjoyed a multifaceted career serving as a language teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and research supervisor and mentor. I have fulfilled most of these roles in Venezuela, the UK and China, in both face to face and remote academic programmes. Particularly in the area of EAP, my passion lies in combining ESP methodologies, critical pedagogy, and learning technologies to empower learners' linguistic and digital literacy skills, as well as their critical thinking abilities, within their specific context of academic English.

Teaching

Pre-sessional Course, Winter, Spring and Summer Cohorts (20 week-course)

Other activities

Academic Interests

    - Digital technologies in language teaching and learning

    - Teacher Education- Practitioner inquiry

    - AI and the writers’ voice in academic writing

Conference Presentations

Silence in Synchronous Video-mediated Language Teaching: Teachers’ Reactions and Responses. (28-30 June 2022). 24th WICAL Conference. University of Warwick, UK.

Monitoring, feedback, and accountability in synchronous video-mediated language teaching. Applied linguistics seminar series: Language. Culture. Matters, 2022. University of Warwick, UK.

“I can’t see what my students are doing”: Challenges and Opportunities in Remote Language Teaching. (23 October 2020). Virtual Symposium on “Interdisciplinary and international perspectives on ELT and language teacher education”. University of Warwick and Goethe University Frankfurt.

“I can’t see what my students are doing”: Debunking beliefs in online teaching. (23 August, 2020). VenTESOL’s E-Teacher Programme. Venezuela.

Research and Teaching in Applied Linguistics: How we have been affected by COVID-19 Pandemic. IRAAL (Irish association of applied linguistics) virtual panel, 2020.

Reflections on video remote teaching in challenging circumstances. (16 June 2020). Panellist at the International Online Conference in Uzbekistan organised by UzTESPING (Uzbekistan Teachers of English for Specific Purposes Integrated Networking Group) under the theme of “Teaching during the pandemic: sharing experiences”.

Publications

Wang, Y. Y., Meifang, Z., Gamero, M., Lu, X., Pinter, A. and Mann, S. (2023) Professional learning communities guide. Report to the British Council (Companion volume). Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Mann, S., Davidson, A., Davis, M., Gakonga, J., Gamero, M., Harrison, T., Mosavian, P. & Richards, L. (2019). Video in English language teacher education. British Council.

Castillo, E., Gamero, M. & Sivira, Y. (2015) English teaching practice: Secondary school teachers’ perceptions. In E. Zeuch & M. Gregson (Eds.), English teaching in Venezuelan public schools: Evidence, experiences and perspectives (Vol. 36, pp. 179- 189). British Council.