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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