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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in applying Gamification in Education, which can be defined as the application of game design elements to learning activities. Its purpose is to motivate students by creating an engaging learning experience that can keep students focused on the learning task and its application in the classroom, is still in its emergent stages. Gamification is a great challenge for education, particularly in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in such a traditional context, as is the case with courses like Management and Administration Business, Finance and Accounting, Marketing and Market Research, Chemistry, Accounting and Administration and Business Communication. This paper presents a study, applied in the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 academic years, in which the teaching method focuses on a blended learning approach, through the implementation of a flipped classroom model and also through the introduction of online gamification activities such Kahoot! application. Kahoot is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology that can easily be used for initial, formative and summative assessment of students' knowledge using individual or collaborative team work mode, adding vitality, student engagement, and also meta-cognitive supports to higher education classrooms with limited instructor or student training required. The participants, in the study, were about 3 000 students of 17 different subjects from the aforementioned courses, of the Malaga University and Polytechnic of Porto. The results of this study suggest that this model improves student learning and are of relevance to researchers, educators and game-based learning designers.

The popularity of the flipped classroom has been rising. This pedagogical model emphasizes active and peer-assisted learning and problem solving within the classroom and leaves the transmission of conceptual knowledge to individual tasks outside the classroom. This research evaluates the implementation and results of gamification, game-based learning, and active methodologies used in the development of the flipped methodology. The team of researchers has been applying this model since 2017. The sample consisted of students from different subjects, Management and Administration Business, Finance and Accounting, Marketing and Market Research, and Chemistry, at the University of Malaga and in Accounting and Administration and Marketing at the Polytechnic of Porto. A statistical analysis of the degree of students' satisfaction with the application of the pedagogical model has been carried out, considering the general aspects and the level of application within each subject. The data show a very positive assessment of the teaching achieved and the strategies applied in the model.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of textbooks in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching, a field where in-house materials seem to be the most appropriate option. The usefulness of textbooks often depends on their successful adaptation and our contention is that teachers do not have to be specialists in tailoring materials. In addition, textbooks are an important tool for students and this assertion is supported by the results of a questionnaire carried out in the field of Business English. The conclusion reached in this paper is that, although the perfect textbook may not exist, it is possible to settle on a compromise which suits our students. needs and at the same time reflects the teacher.s view of the teaching-learning process.

The literature in the fíeld of ESP (Englishfor Specific Purposes) conspicuously documents the relevance of the collaboration between the teacher in this field and the content teacher, as well as that between the former and the student. However, the positions on this score are of a general nature and, consequently, cannot easily be put into practice. This has led us to analyze the main aspects determining this collaboration, and the way in which it can be implemented. In order to do so, we will take as a reference point a post-graduate course on Foreign Trade and, by extensión, on Management Internationalization.We start by describing the ESP teacher's profile, and following upon this, we introduce the theoretical framework of the present study. In turn, we give way to the contextualization of the course under scrutiny, which will allow us to describe how this collaboration was undertaken building upon Dudley-Evans and St John's (1998) view. Finally, we highlight the conclusión at which our paper has enabled us to arrive, namely, that the collaboration between both teachers builds progressively and that it has to be established by delimiting their role in it, that the students' collaboration always involves some risks we should assume and, finally, that teachers with a philological background have a great deal to bring to the ESP field. 8 Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses