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Research Group on Plurilingual

Interaction and Teaching

Annual

ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on Plurilingual

Interaction and Teaching

Annual Report 2011-2012

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Research Group on Plurilingual

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CONTENTS

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

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2012

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. 7

Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals

News from group members

New fellowships

CONTRIBUTIONS ................................................................................................... p. 9

New GREIP books / publications

New videos

New materials

Other

GLOBAL PERSPECTIV

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects

Fig. 2. Main Activities

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Participation in & closure of projects up to 2012

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Conferences (org)

Projects (ongoing)

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Training

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES

Development of ongoing projects

1. Completed:

� DYLAN - Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity, funded by the

European Commission (2006-2011)

PI (UAB): Luci Nussbaum

Other GREIP members: Eva Codó, Melinda Dooly, Emilee Moore (Eulàlia

Borras – UPC)

� CARAP - Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures, ECML Consell

d'Europa (2008-2011)

PI (UAB): Artur Noguerol

Other GREIP members: Xavier Pascual

2. Ongoing:

� 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, Víctor Corona (research aide)

� 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 Canals, Oriol Pallarés, Carme Miralda, Helga Martínez (research aide)

� INTENT - Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into Foreign Language

Higher Education (2012-2014)

PI UAB: Melinda Dooly

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

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

dialogues’ (2010-2012)

PI UAB: Laia Canals

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

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Organization of seminars and training activities

3. Seminars:

� TRI-CLIL2012 Internacional Congress (May 09-11, 2012):

“Better CLIL: More opportunities in primary, secondary and higher education”.

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

Webinar (online seminar) LS6 in Barcelona: “Empowering future language

learners: Formal and informal language learning through social media” (June 28,

2012)

� Inter-university Meetings on Research on Teaching Language & Literature

(UAB, April 17 &18, 2012)

� Open session on DYLAN project outcomes (January 2012)

Training activities

4. GREIP visitors 2012:

� Dr Numa Markee, Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign (January 2012).

GREIP seminar "Application of conversational analysis to second language

learning" + open conference on learning behaviour tracking.

� German Fernández Vavrik, interactionist sociologist and researcher at

CONICET- University of Cuyo, Argentina (February 2012). Seminar-

presentation of his research in Argentina & Paris.

� Neil Mercer (May 2012). TRICLIL2012 conference; seminar.

� Christine Deprez (May 2012). Encounter between French students and GREIP

members (Natasha Evnitskaya, Helga Martínez, Víctor Corona, Claudia Vallejo)

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NEWS

5. Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals:

LANCOOK: Learning languages, cultures and cuisines in digital interactive kitchens

(519076-LLP-1-2011-1-UK-KAZ-KAZMP)

From: 30/11/2011 To: 01/12/2014

Sponsor: European Commission (398,781€)

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

e Reggio Emilia (Italy), Helsingin yliopisto (Finland), Universität Paderborn (Germany)

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

PI: Dr 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

Democratic Educators Encyclopaedic Dictionary (CICE-DEED)

From: 2012 To: 2013

Participating Institutions: London Metropolitan University (UK), Institute for Policy

Studies in Education (IPSE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Hochschule

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

Paul Valéry-Montpellier3 (France).

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

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

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

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6. News from group members:

Luci Nussbaum

Sabbatical (2012-2013)

Víctor Corona

PhD defended: ‘Globalización, identidades y escuela: lo

latino en Barcelona’

Directed by: Dr. Virginia Unamuno & Dr. Joan Pujolar

Tutor: Dr. Luci Nussbaum

Natasha Evnitskaya

A4U postdoctoral stay at the UAM, English Language

Area (2012-2013/14).

Laia Canals

Rewarded credentials from regional (AQU)

accreditation agency to opt for junior professorship

(pending available post)

Emilee Moore

Rewarded credentials from regional (AQU)

accreditation agency to opt for junior professorship

(pending available post)

Adriana Patiño

Rewarded credentials from national (ANECA)

accreditation agency to opt for full professorship

(pending available post)

New post at Southampton

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CONTRIBUTIONS

7. New books:

Lorenza Mondada & Luci Nussbaum

(Eds.) (2012). Interactions cosmopolites.

L’organisation de la participation

plurilingue. Limoges: Lambert Lucas

Alistair Ross, Melinda Dooly & Nanny

Hartsmar (2012). Equalities and

Education in Europe. Explanations and

Excuses for Inequality. Newcastle upon

Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Melinda Dooly & Robert O'Dowd (Eds.) (2012). Researching online interaction and

exchange in foreign language education. Bern: Peter Lang.

8. Chapters:

Borràs, E., Moore, E., Nussbaum, L. & Patiño, A. (2012). Variété des pratiques

plurilingues dans des cours universitaires en L2. In L. Mondada & L. Nussbaum (Eds.)

Interactions cosmopolites. L’organisation de la participation plurilingue. Limoges:

Lambert Lucas.

Dooly, M., & O’Dowd, R. (2012). Researching online interaction and exchange in

foreign language education: Introduction to the volume. In M. Dooly & R. O’Dowd

(Eds.) Researching online foreign language interaction and exchange: Theories,

methods and challenges, pp. 11-41. Bern: Peter Lang.

Dooly, M., & Hauck, M. (2012). Researching multimodal communicative competence

in video and audio telecollaborative encounters. In M. Dooly & R. O’Dowd (Eds.)

Researching online foreign language interaction and exchange: Theories, methods and

challenges, pp. 135-161. Bern: Peter Lang.

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Mondada, L. & Nussbaum, L. (2012). Introducció al volum. In L. Mondada & L.

Nussbaum (Eds.) Interactions cosmopolites. L’organisation de la participation

plurilingue. Limoges: Lambert Lucas.

9. Other materials:

Natalia Evnitskaya, Helga Martínez, Emilee Moore & Claudia Vallejo (Eds.)

(2012).TRICLIL 2012 proceedings: Better CLIL: More opportunities in primary,

secondary and higher education. II International Round Table on CLIL Programmes &

VI Colloquium on CLIL in Catalonia. Bellaterra: CLIL-SI (CD-ROM book)

10. In preparation:

Virginia Unamuno (Ed.) Prácticas y repertorios plurilingües en Argentina. Bellaterra:

GREIP

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2012). Special volume:

Catalan in the 21st century

2 articles:

Moore, E., Nussbaum, L. & Borràs, E.

'internationalised' university lectures

Corona, V., Nussbaum, L. & Unamuno, V.

among Barcelona's youth of Latin Ame

Spanish in Context 9:2 (2012)

etnográfica en el mundo hispano.

Adriana Patiño Santos & Virginia Unamuno (

Article in review to be published

Masats, D. & Dooly, M. El tratamiento integrado de competencias y saberes.

Educación.

Articles/Chapters accepted to be published

Sadler, R., & Dooly, M. (tbp late 2012).

and practice. In M. Thomas, H. Reinders & M. Warschauer (

computer-assisted language learning

Dooly, M. & Sadler, R. (2013).

telecollaboration in teacher

Dooly, M. (2013). Promoting competency

based language learning. In

teaching in higher education

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

in language teacher education to promote network learning.

Zhang (Eds.) Language teachers and teaching: Global perspectives, local initiatives

NY: Taylor & Francis/Routl

Moore, E., Nussbaum, L. & Borràs, E. Plurilingual teaching and learning practices in

'internationalised' university lectures

Corona, V., Nussbaum, L. & Unamuno, V. The emergence of new linguistic repertoires

among Barcelona's youth of Latin American Origin

Spanish in Context 9:2 (2012). Special volume: La sociolingüística con perspectiva

etnográfica en el mundo hispano. Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones

Adriana Patiño Santos & Virginia Unamuno (Eds.)

to be published:

Masats, D. & Dooly, M. El tratamiento integrado de competencias y saberes.

ed to be published:

R., & Dooly, M. (tbp late 2012). Language learning in virtual worlds: Research

M. Thomas, H. Reinders & M. Warschauer (Eds.) Contemporary

assisted language learning. London & New York: Continuum.

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

telecollaboration in teacher education. ReCALL Journal.

Promoting competency-based language teaching through project

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

teaching in higher education. Dordrecht: Springer.

aking like a ‘glocal’: Using computer-mediated communication

in language teacher education to promote network learning. In S. Ben Said & L. Jun

Language teachers and teaching: Global perspectives, local initiatives

NY: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

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Plurilingual teaching and learning practices in

The emergence of new linguistic repertoires

La sociolingüística con perspectiva

Nuevos contextos, nuevas aproximaciones. Eva Codó,

Masats, D. & Dooly, M. El tratamiento integrado de competencias y saberes. Revista de

Language learning in virtual worlds: Research

Contemporary

. London & New York: Continuum.

Filling in the gaps: Linking theory and practice through

based language teaching through project-

based language

mediated communication

S. Ben Said & L. Jun

Language teachers and teaching: Global perspectives, local initiatives.

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Dooly, M. (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.

11. GREIP (& TRICLIL) Dissemination:

� Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, n.21:

http://cronos.uab.es/revista/newsletter/butlletijuliol12.htm

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12. Requested resources/funds:

� Funds from ARCS-DGR2012 for organizing a congress –in charge of Luci

Nussbaum, 2012-13:

“Seminar on multilingual education in Catalonia: approaches and actions”.

2 sessions: December 2012, February 2013.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Universitat de Girona.

� Funds for a Recercaixa Project, Melinda Dooly

� Books from library fund UAB

13. Webpage news:

� New projects, publications, materials, videos, links...

� New web (under construction): http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/

Other:

� Future Fullbright fellowship: Sarah Newcomer

� PIF post, AGAUR fellowship??

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

Bellaterra, october 2012