Guadalupe de la Maya Retamar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Didactics of Social Sciences, Languages and Literatures at the University of Extremadura where she obtained a PhD in Education in 2015. She teaches the Primary Education Degree and the Master's for bilingual teaching in Primary and Secondary Education. Her main research lines focus on the training of teachers of foreign languages, on the acquisition of vocabulary, and the learning of third and additional languages. She is a member of the Spanish Society of Didactics of Language and Literature and the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Education (GIED). In 2021, she obtained the award for the teaching career of excellence at the University of Extremadura.