Ana Gimeno-Sanz

Biography

Ana Gimeno-Sanz holds a PhD in English Philology, awarded by the University of Valencia, and is Full Professor in English Language at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain, where she has also held various managerial positions. She has published numerous research papers on language learning and teaching, more specifically in the fields of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Prof. Gimeno is Head of the CAMILLE Research Group, devoted to research in CALL and e-Learning. She has been Project Manager of several funded multimedia CALL research and development projects which have led to the publication of a number of language courses on CD-ROM and online. Through Proyecto InGenio, funded by UPV, she has created an online dedicated CALL authoring tool and content manager to enable the publication of interactive courseware for foreign language learning on the web. With this tool she has co-authored Intermediate Online English and InGenio First Certificate in English Online Course and Tester, two courses which are delivered through the InGenio learning environment, and which are widely used by learners around the world. Ana Gimeno serves on the Editorial Boards of two major CALL journals: ReCALL (CUP) and Computer-Assisted Language Learning Journal (Taylor and Francis), as well as being editor-in-chief of The EUROCALL Review, EuroCALL's online scientific journal. She has been President of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL) for 6 years (2005-2011) and is currently President of WorldCALL, the world organization for CALL.