ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on Plurilingual

Interaction and Teaching

Annual Report

ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on Plurilingual

Interaction and Teaching

Annual Report 2012-2013

ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on Plurilingual

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CONTENTS

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ........................................................................................... p. 3

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2013

Fig. 2. Main activities

Fig. 3. Scientific & innovative teaching production

ONGOING ACTIVITIES............................................................................................ p. 5

Development of ongoing projects

Organization of seminars and training activities

NEWS ................................................................................................................... p. 9

Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals

News from group members

Changes in job or status

Ruquested resources/funds

CONTRIBUTIONS ................................................................................................. p. 11

New GREIP books / publications

Other

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects

Fig. 2. Main Activities

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES

1. Completed projects, 2012:

� LLSM - European Network ‘Language learning & social media: 6 key dialogues’

PI UAB: Laia Canals (2010-2012)

Other GREIP members: Melinda Dooly, Dolors Masats, Victoria Antoniadou

� MQD - ‘Development of didactic material in English for the integration of

linguistic and scientific competences in biennial subjects in Early Childhood and

Primary Education undergraduate degrees’ (2011-2012)

PI: Mariona Espinet

GREIP members: Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore

2. Development of ongoing projects:

� PADS - Plurilingual, Audiovisual and Digital Competences as Means to Construct

Knowledge in Multilingual and Multicultural Communities of Practice (2010-

2013)

PI: Dolors Masats

Other GREIP members: Luci Nussbaum, Amparo Tusón, Artur Noguerol,

Melinda Dooly, Virginia Unamuno, Adriana Patiño, Laia Canals, Xavier Pascual

(Research aide: Víctor Corona)

� DALE-APECS - Academic Discourse in a Foreign Language: Learning and

Assesment of Science Content in the Multilingual CLIL Classroom (2011-2013)

PI: Cristina Escobar

Other GREIP members: Luci Nussbaum, Emilee Moore, Natasha Evnitskaya,

Eulàlia Borràs, Oriol Pallarés, Carme Miralda (Research aide: Helga Martínez)

� CICE-DEED - Democratic Educators Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Participant Institutions: London Metropolitan University (UK), Institute for

Policy Studies in Education (IPSE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,

Hochschule Merseberg (Germany), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

(France), Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier3 (France). (2012 – 2013)

PI: Alistair Ross (London Metropolitan University / IPSE).

GREIP members: Melinda Dooly (coord.), Claudia Vallejo.

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Project webpage: http://www.cicedeed.eu/

� TEL4ELE -Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (2011-2013)

Sponsor: Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union (Comenius

Multilateral Project) (2011-2013)

Coordinator: Stockholm Education Administration (Sweeden)

PI at UAB: Cristina Escobar

Other UAB participants: María José Lobo

Project webpage: http://tel4ele.eu/

� LANCOOK - Learning languages, cultures and cuisines in digital interactive

kitchens (2011-2014)

Sponsor: European Commission (398,781€)

Participant Institutions: Newcastle University (UK), Università degli Studi di

Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), Helsingin yliopisto (Finland), Universität

Paderborn (Germany), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

PI: Paul Seedhouse (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne).

GREIP members: Dolors Masats (coord.), Marta Juanhuix Piqueras, Melinda

Dooly.

Project webpage: http://europeandigitalkitchen.com/?page_id=46

� INTENT - Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into Foreign Language Higher

Education (2012-2014)

PI UAB: Melinda Dooly

Other GREIP members: Dolors Masats, Claudia Vallejo, Victoria Antoniadou

Organization of seminars and training activities

3. Participation in congresses, seminars, conferences, masters:

� Luci Nussbaum has taken part in a Master in Colombia (Technical University of

Pereira)

� Melinda Dooly, Dolors Masats, Artur Noguerol & Luci Nussbaum participate

(volunteer) in a Master by UAB-UNAN in Nicaragua

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� Catalan Sociolinguistics Simposium 'SCS 2’, University of Lleida, april 5, 2013.

Presentations:

� Víctor Corona: Latino trajectories in Barcelona

� Luci Nussbaum: Schools’ sociolinguistics in the XXI century Catalonya

� Congress ‘Language and Super-diversity’. University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June

5-7, 2013:

� Emilee Moore.

� Víctor Corona, Luci Nussbaum, Melinda Dooly & Dolors Masats.

� 6th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics, & 4th Biennial Meeting of

the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society [SIS-EES]

‘Language and identity in the spanish-speaking world’. University of London,

July 3-5, 2013:

� Víctor Corona.

� Luci Nussbaum has lectured at Lleida University, University from A Corunha and

Technical University of Pereira.

Scientific and work sessions:

� Data sessions:

� juny 11, 2013: Francesca Helm & Merhnaz Milani, PhD students directed

by GREIP members. Presentation of materials from two different online

exchanges.

� Scientific sessions, to be confirmed:

� Tellecolaboration (Melinda Dooly?)

� Documenting the integrated learning of languages and other curriculum

content (Cristina Escobar/Natasha Evnitskaya?)

� New concepts around plurilingualism (Luci Nussbaum)

� Co-construction of identities at school (Víctor Corona?)

� Technical sessions:

� Transcription using and comparing software suitabilities (ELAN, CLAN,

PRAAT, TRANSANA…) (Emilee Moore)

* Emilee Moore proposes doing data sessions with students supervised by GREIP

members to save time on individual tutorials.

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** Melinda Dooly proposes combining some GREIP sessions with the Masters’

afternoon sessions.

Organization of research networks:

� Foundation of EDiSo, Society for Discourse Studies (Luci Nussbaum participates

in the organizing committee).

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NEWS

4. News from group members 2013:

Luci Nussbaum

-Sabbatical (2012-2013), but teaching

courses in the MA for the language

section of the department

-CONECIT scholarship as visiting professor

at the University of Buenos Aires, Sept. 15

to Dec. 15, 2013

Julia Llompart

New GREIP member

PIF scholarship 2013-2015

Melinda Dooly

Will apply to a Serra Hunter post

Víctor Corona

Best teacher evaluation for the course

entitled: “Acollida lingüística a l’escola”

5. Changes in jobs or status:

• Natasha Evnitskaya: GREIP associate member from the UAM, Area of English

Studies (postdoctoral stay A4U 2013/14).

• Virginia Unamuno: GREIP associate member from the UBA & CONECIT,

Argentina.

• Adriana Patiño: GREIP associate member from Southampton, UK.

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• Laia Canals: GREIP associate member from PAU-Educació. Probably coming

back to the Department.

• Cristina Escobar: leaves the GREIP.

• Víctor Corona: finishes his research aide grant with the PADS project in June

2013.

• Claudia Vallejo: may leave as GREIP’s TSR in December 2013 if there is no

renewal of the SGR.

• Júlia Llompart: PIF scholarship.

6. Requested funds/resources:

� Renewal of the funding for consolidated research groups SGR-AGAUR (2014-

2018). Not summoned. The current SGR ends in December 2013. Pending

resolution.

� Recercaixa Project, Melinda Dooly, 2013: ‘Getting connected: Improving the

teaching of science, maths and languages through issue-based use of

technology’ Pending resolution.

� Project submitted for the Minsitry by Melinda Dooly, 2013: ‘KONECT’. Pending

resolution.

� ARCS-DGR2012 grants for organizing a seminar on multilingual education in

Catalonia, 2013 - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Universitat de Girona.

Denied.

� Recercaixa Project, Melinda Dooly, 2012. Denied.

� Books request for the UAB library fund. Granted.

� Future Fullbright scholarship: Sarah Newcomer, Arizona. Postponed.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

New GREIP books / publications:

7. Books:

Escobar Urmeneta, C.; Evnitskaya, N. & Moore, E. (Coords.) (in progress-2013). TRICLIL

2012 papers selection: Better CLIL through interaction, assessment and collaboration.

Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Unamuno, V. & Maldonado, A. (Ed.) (2013). Prácticas y repertorios plurilingües en

Argentina. Buenos Aires: GREIP.

8. Articles:

Corona, V., Nussbaum, L. & Unamuno, V. (2013). The emergence of new linguistic

repertoires among Barcelona's youth of Latin American Origin. International Journal of

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 16(2), 182-194. Special Issue: Catalan in the 21st

century.

Dooly, M. & Sadler, R. (2013). Filling in the gaps: Linking theory and practice through

telecollaboration in teacher education. ReCALL Journal, 25: 4-29.

9. Chapters:

Dooly, M. (2013). Promoting competency-based language teaching through project-

based language learning. In M.L. Pérez Cañado (Ed.) Competency-based language

teaching in higher education, pp.77-92. Dordrecht: Springer.

Moore, E., Borràs, E. & Nussbaum, L. (2013). Plurilingual resources in lingua franca: An

interactionist perspective. In H. Haberland, D. Lønsmann & B. Preisler (Eds.) Language

Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International University

Education. Dordrecht: Springer.

Nussbaum, L. (2013). Interrogations didactiques sur l’éducation plurilingue. In V. Bigot,

A. Bretegnier & M. Vasseur (Eds.) Vers le plurilinguisme ? 20 ans après.

Nussbaum, L. (2013). Socialisation langagière et construction des identités. In B.

Falaize, C. Heimberg, O.Loubes (Dirs.) L’école et la nation. Lyon: ENS Editions.

Sadler, R., & Dooly, M. (2013). Language learning in virtual enviroments: Research and

practice. In M. Thomas, H. Reinders & M. Warschauer (Eds.) Contemporary computer-

assisted language learning, pp. 159-182. London & New York: Continuum.

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In progress

10. Books:

Masats, D., Noguerol, A. & Unamuno, V.(Eds.) (in progress -2013). Per un currículum

plurilingüe i pluricultural / Vers un curriculum plurilingue et pluriculturel. Bellaterra:

Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

11. Articles in progress / in press:

Dooly, M. (in progress -2013). Speaking like a ‘glocal’: Using computer-mediated

communication in language teacher education to promote network learning. In S. Ben

Said & L. Jun Zhang (Eds.) Language teachers and teaching: Global perspectives, local

initiatives. NY: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

Dooly, M. (in progress -2013). Focusing on the social: Research into the distributed

knowledge of novice teachers in online exchange. In C. Meskill (Ed.) Online teaching

and learning: Sociocultural dimensions. New York & London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Academic.

Masats, D. & Dooly, M. (in progress -2013). El tratamiento integrado de competencias

y saberes. Revista de Educación.

Moore, E. & Nussbaum, L. (in press). Building a multilingual university in institutional

policies and everyday practices. In Unger, J. W., Krzyżanowski, M. & Wodak, R. (Eds.),

Multilingual Encounters in Europe’s Institutional Spaces. London: Continuum.

Moore, E. & Nussbaum, L. (in progress-2013). La lingüística interaccional y la

comunicación en las aulas, Textos de Didáctica de la lengua y la Literatura, 63.

Moore, E. & Patiño-Santos, A. (in press). Plurilingual resources for ‘welcoming’ at a

university service for international students. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural

Development.

Nussbaum, L. (dec.2013). Le parler plurilingue comme ressource d’apprentissage.

Tréma, 40.

Nussbaum, L., Moore, E., & Borràs, E. (in press). Accomplishing multilingualim through

plurilingual activities. In Berthoud, A-C., Grin, F. & Lüdi, G. (Eds.), DYLAN Book

(Dynamics of Language Management). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Vallejo, C. & Dooly, M. (sept. 2013). Early school leavers and social disadvantage in

Spain: From books to bricks and viceversa. In A. Ross, & C. Leathwood, (Eds.) Early

School Leavers and Social Disadvantage. Special Issue of European Journal of

Education, 3, sept. 2013.

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Other

12. GREIP Dissemination:

Following the publication of the article "The Emergence of New Linguistic Repertoires

Among Barcelona's Youth of Latin American Origin " published by Victor Corona, Luci

Nussbaum and Virginia Unamuno in the International Journal of Bilingual Education

and Bilingualism, the UAB released a press note and several media published results of

their research, such as:

http://www.ara.cat/societat/parla-estudiants-llatins_0_923307853.html

http://www.btv.cat/btvnoticies/2013/05/21/identifiquen-una-variant-dialectal-que-

parlen-els-joves-llatinoamericans-residents-a-barcelona/

http://www.abc.es/local-cataluna/20130521/abci-catalan-castellano-latino-espanol-

201305212230.html

http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/05/21/1481119/los-adolescentes-latinos-en-

barcelona.html

http://noticias.universia.es/actualidad/noticia/2013/05/22/1024682/latino-espanol-

nueva-variedad-lingistica-adolescentes-latinoamericanos-barcelona.html

http://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/55074/man/jo/parlo/llat/-espanyol

WEB News:

� The website has migrated to a modern and safer environment. It maintains the

same URL.

� We have added the following text to the group pesentation at the website:

GREIP statement in favour of the use and learning of Catalan in schools in

Catalonia

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� New contents in the ‘members’ section: PhD students with theses related to

GREIP

� New projects, publications, links... (EDiSo, etc.)

More information at http://greip.uab.cat

Bellaterra, June 2013