e-ProFun
English pronunciation is fun: Going digital for Spanish speaking young learners with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (e-ProFun)
Events
- 9-10/05/2025: The Scimitar and Stellae teams, with the support of the Discourse and Identity research group and IHUs, among other partners, have organized the VII edition of Santiago de Compostela International Workshop of Discourse Analysis: Digital Language Learning (IWoDA’25)
- Gómez González, M. Á. & Lago Ferreiro, A. 2024. e-SoundWayTR, e-SoundWayFR, and e-Profun Three digital tools to improve L2 English pronunciation. Invited Talk, L2 Speech Methodology-Vitoria-Gasteiz, June 14 2024.
Newest Publications
- Gómez González, M. Á., & Sánchez Roura, M. T. (Forthcoming). English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish: From Theory to Practice. Mouton-Brill. Revised Second Edition. (Book)
- Jarazo Álvarez, R. (et al.) (Forthcoming). Education in the Digital Age: Innovations in Language Learning. Language in the Digital Age Series. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang Verlag. (Book)
- Gómez González, M. Á., & Jarazo Álvarez, R. (Fortcoming). Exploring e-ProFun: Linguistic-Pedagogical Foundations and Content Evaluation of a Digital English Pronunciation Tool for Primary Education. In R. Jarazo Álvarez et al., Education in the Digital Age: Innovations in Language Learning. Peter Lang.
- Gómez González, M. Á., Lago Ferreiro, A., Torrado Cespón, M., Díaz Lage, J. M. & Fragueiro Agrelo, Á. (2025). Los sonidos del inglés en el Camino de Santiago (e-SoundWay). Un juego serio para aprender la pronunciación inglesa. Universidade de Vigo University Press. Trilingual Edition: Spanish–Galician–English. Features two integrated QR codes providing access to the games e-SounWay: The Route and e-SoundWay: Free-Roaming. (Book)
To purchase the book with access codes, visit the UVigo Publication Service website: https://www.uvigo.gal/es/i-d-i/difusion-investigacion/servicio-publicaciones
- Lago Ferreiro, A., Gómez González, M. Á., López Ardao, C. (2025). A New Serious Game (e-SoundWay) for Learning English Phonetics Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Vol. 9, Núm. 6, pp. 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti9060054
- Gómez González, M. Á., & García Murias, R. (2025). EFL Pronunciation Instruction in Spanish Primary Schools: From Prescribed Curriculum to Classroom Practice. Education Sciences 2025, 15(4), 427; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15040427
- Herrería Alonso, S., Lago Ferreiro, A., López Ardao, J.C., Rodríguez Pérez, M., Rodríguez Rubio, R.F., Sousa Vieira, M.E. & Suárez González,A. (2024) APAR: A Structural Design and Guidance Framework for Gamification in Education. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4866540.
- María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Alfonso Lago Ferreiro. (2024) Computer and Education Open (CAEO). Web-assisted instruction for teaching and learning EFL phonetics to Spanish learners: Effectiveness, perceptions and challenges. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100214.
- Gómez González, M. Á. (2024). What Apps? Evaluating Current Applications for Learning English Pronunciation. In J. Belda, C. Holgado-Sáez, J. Gutiérrez-Artacho (Eds.), Digital Language Learning. New Approaches and Methods (pp. 127-152). Peter Lang.
- Gómez González, M. Á & Lago Ferreiro, A. (2024). Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT): An empirical evaluation of EPSS Multimedia Lab. Language Learning & Techonology. 28(1), 1-44. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73565
- Gómez González, M. Á. & Silvano, P. (2024). Developing a comparative model of predicted associations for invariable question tag types in British English and European Portuguese. In A. Baicchi & C. Broccias Cristiano (Eds.) 2023, Constructional and Cognitive Explorations of Contrastive Linguistics. Berlin, Springer. 173-214.
News
- 18/02/2025: The project entitled «e-SoundWay: English sounds on the way. A serious game for learning English phonetics and pronunciation», submitted by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Teresa Sánchez Roura with the collaboration of Ánxel Fraguelo Agrelo, was awarded the Teaching Innovation Prize by the Faculty of Philology at USC.
- 24/07/2025: Mª del Carmen Echevarría Figueroa publishes an article about eSoundWay and eProFun in the digital newspaper of the University of Vigo under the title Innovación tecnolóxica galega para que o alumnado de primaria á universidade mellore a aprendizaxe da fonética inglesa a través do xogo.