MARIA ELENA BAYNAT MONREAL

MARIA ELENA BAYNAT MONREAL is a Titular Professor at the Universitat de València, affiliated with the Department of French and Italian Philology in the Faculty of Economics. She is a member of the Inter-university Institute for Applied Modern Languages (IULMA) and the research group GENDIGIT, focusing on digital genres and linguistic analysis. Her academic profile integrates literary scholarship with innovative language teaching methodologies.

Her research interests include:

• 19th Century French Travel Literature
• Representation of Spain and its people in French writing
• Théophile Gautier and Alexandre Dumas
• Educational Technology in language teaching
• WebQuests, machinima, and digital simulations
• Corpus-based tourism linguistics
• Intercultural communication and social media in education

Her recent publications reveal a strong trend in applying digital tools to language pedagogy, particularly in business and tourism French. She has led and contributed to major research projects such as COMETVAL and SLATES, the latter supporting virtual teaching during the pandemic. Her work bridges traditional philology with modern educational innovation.

Her scientific contributions include:

• Design of WebQuests for specialized vocabulary acquisition
• Analysis of promotional language on hotel websites
• Use of Facebook groups for intercultural learning
• Professional simulations in Business French courses
• Construction of multilingual tourism corpora

She has supervised various educational initiatives and collaborated extensively on applied linguistics research. She is actively involved in curriculum innovation, particularly in integrating ICT into higher education. Her teaching focuses on French for Specific Purposes, with applications in business, tourism, and hospitality contexts.

She has not received any explicitly mentioned scientific awards in the provided texts. Her laboratory or research environment is centered around the GENDIGIT research group and IULMA, where digital and discourse analysis of applied modern languages is conducted.