ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on

Plurilingual Interaction and

Annual

ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on

Plurilingual Interaction and

Teaching

Annual Report 2013-2014

ACTIVITY REPORT

Plurilingual Interaction and

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CONTENTS

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

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2014

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 and associates

Ruquested resources/funds

Webpage News

GREIP devices, data & documents

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

New GREIP books / publications

Other

COMMITMENTS .................................................................................................. p. 14

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2014

Fig. 2. Main Activities

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES

1. Development of ongoing projects

a. Projects completed, 2013:

� CICE-DEED - Democratic Educators Encyclopaedic Dictionary (2012 – 2013)

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).

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

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

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

b. Ongoing projects:

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

Knowledge in Multilingual and Multicultural Communities of Practice (2010-

2013; extended until 2014)

PI: Dolors Masats

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

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

� 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

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

Project Webpage: http://uni-collaboration.eu

2. Organization of seminars and training activities

• Lecture Series 2013:

– Steve Thorne: Human development and semiotic remediation through

mobile place-based gaming

– Vincenza Tudini: Constructing intersubjectivity through online

intercultural talk

– Shannon Sauro: Fandom, Social Media and Learning

– Anne Edwards: Researching learning within the cultural historical

tradition

• Virgínia Unamuno, Víctor Corona, Carme Junyent, David Block: V Simposium

of Catalan Sociolinguistics

• Elisabeth Coelho: Harnessing the linguistic and cultural diversity in the

classroom and supporting the development of oral language and literacy.

Coordinated with the Masters and Doctoral Studies on Research in Education;

Faculty of Education.

• Lorenza Mondada: Talk in interaction: An embodied and situated view of

language (January 2013, UPF)

• Collaboration GREIP - Catalan Sociolinguistics Initiative: VII Simposium (held at

the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), June 2014.

Scientific and working sessions

• Data sessions:

– June 11, 2013: Francesca Helm & Merhnaz Milani, PhD students

directed by Melinda Dooly. Presentation of data from their theses, in

progress.

– March 21, 2014: Luci Nussbaum, data session, data from El Chaco,

Argentina.

– April 11, 2014: Júlia Llompart, data session ‘Language brokering’.

– ‘State of the art’ presentation by PhD students linked to GREIP, with Dr.

Steve Thorne & Dr. Shannon Sauro.

– Data session with Dr. Vincenza Tudini

– Monthly meetings and data sessions by PhD students of different

research groups from the Unit of Language Teaching, UAB.

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NEWS

3. Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals

• SGR-AGAUR - Renewal as Consolidated Research Group, 2014-2016.

• Knowledge for Network-based Education, Cognition & Teaching (KONECT)

Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness: R & D projects of the State Program

for the Promotion of Excellence Scientific and Technical Research (2014-2018)

PI: Melinda Dooly

Other GREIP members: Dolors Masats, Emilee Moore, Artur Noguerol, Luci

Nussbaum, Amparo Tusón

More information: KONECT

• Bilingual Intercultural Education in ‘The Impenetrable’ (Chaco, Argentina):

Detection, exchange and dissemination of educational and training

experiences. FAS UAB (2014-2015)

PI: Dolors Masats

Other GREIP members: Artur Noguerol, Luci Nussbaum

More information: EIB

• Implementation of the curriculum for first and second language teaching

Government of Andorra (2014-2015)

PI: Artur Noguerol

Other GREIP members: Luci Nussbaum, Dolors Masats

More information: Implementació

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4. News from GREIP members & associates

Melinda Dooly

New GREIP coordinator

Project from the Ministry (KONECT)

Serra Hunter post

Luci Nussbaum

Leaves GREIP coordination

CONICET fellowship as visiting professor

at the University of Buenos Aires, Sept. –

Dec. 2013

Dolors Masats

Rewarded credentials from regional

(AQU) accreditation agency to opt for full

professorship (pending available post)

Recognition of 6-year research track

Project FAS UAB

Eulàlia Borràs

PhD defended: “The management of

multilingualism in the classroom in higher

education. Case Study: Introduction of

classes in English in the Engineering

School B”.

Directed by: Luci Nussbaum

Victoria Antoniadou

PhD defended: “Expanding the socio-

material spaces of teacher education

programmes: A qualitative trace of

teacher professionalization through

blended pedagogy in Catalonia”.

Directed by: Melinda Dooly

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Mireia Sala

Temporarily replaced Claudia Vallejo (on

leave) as GREIP’s TSR.

PhD student linked to GREIP

Víctor Corona

New post at the University of Baja

California, Mexico

5. New associate members: Francesca Helm, Marta Juanhuix, Numa Markee, Robert

O’Dowd, Randall Sadler, Steven Thorne, Vincenza Tudini.

6. Requested funds – pending of resolution

• Dolors Masats (UAB coord.): LANCOOK 2

• Melinda Dooly (UAB coord.): INTENT-PRO

• Melinda Dooly (PI): RECERCAIXA 2014

• Emilee Moore – Artur Noguerol (UAB coords.): Erasmus+ 2014

7. Wewpage news

• Migration to a new, free UAB web, keeping the same URL: http://greip.uab.cat

• New contents (history, news, entities, PhD students, theses/supervised

research, transferral & dissemination...).

• Creation of a newsletter (Scoop-it) with monthly news (by Júlia Llompart):

http://www.scoop.it/t/greip-grup-de-recerca-en-ensenyament-i-interaccio-

plurilingues

8. GREIP devices, data & documents

• New devices: cameres, audio recorders, memories & hard drive disc (funds

from DYLAN & PADS projects)

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• Need to look for a system to properly administer and control all GREIP

appliances. Request of member’s collaboration when using and returning

equipment.

• Need to create a space to store GREIP private documents. New GoogleDrive

does not guarantee security/privacy. Dolors: request new ‘Moodle’ for next

academic year.

• GREIP members agreed to update their CVs, publications and calls every 6

months.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

9. Chapters

Dooly, M. (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, pp. 237-

255. NY: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

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, pp. 137-155. New York & London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Academic.

Moore, E. & Nussbaum, L. (2014). Building a multilingual university in institutional

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

Multilingual Encounters in Europe’s Institutional Spaces, pp. 243-269. London:

Continuum.

Nussbaum, L., Moore, E., & Borràs, E. (2013). Accomplishing multilingualim through

plurilingual activities. In A-C. Berthoud, F. Grin & G. Lüdi (Eds.) Exploring the Dynamics

of Multilingualism: The DYLAN Project, pp. 229-252. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

10. Articles

Holmes, P., Dooly, M. & O'Regan, J. (Eds.) (2014). Special issue: Intercultural dialogue:

Current challenges, future directions. Language & Intercultural Communication, 14(1).

Llompart Esbert, Júlia (2013). De madres a hijas, de hijas a madres: El cambio en la

transmisión intergeneracional de lenguas. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning

Language & Literature 6(3), 47-65.

Moore, E. (2013). Constructing content and language knowledge in plurilingual student

teamwork: Situated and longitudinal perspectives. International Journal of Bilingual

Education and Bilingualism. DOI:10.1080/13670050.2013.860947.

Moore, E. & Patiño-Santos, A. (2014). Plurilingual resources for ‘welcoming’ at a

university service for international students. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural

Development. DOI:10.1080/01434632.2013.874437.

Vallejo, C. & Dooly, M. (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, 48(3),

389-404.

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11. In preparation / In press

Dooly, M. (tbp 2014). Learning to e-function in a brave new world: Language teachers’

roles in educating for the future. In A. Turula & B. Mikolajewska (Eds.) Insights into

technology enhanced language pedagogy, pp. 9-24. Bern/Vienna: Peter Lang.

Dooly, M. (tbp 2014). Networked classrooms and networked minds: Language teaching

in a brave new world. In P. Seedhouse & C. Jenks (Eds.) International perspectives on

the ELT classroom. New York/London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Dooly, M. (tbp 2015). It takes research to build a community: Ongoing challenges for

scholars in digitally-supported communicative language teaching, Calico Journal.

Dooly, M., & Masats, D. (tbp 2015). A Critical Appraisal of Foreign Language Research

in CLIL, YLL and TELL in Spain (2003-2012). Language teaching: surveys and studies, 48.

Masats, D., Noguerol, A. & Unamuno, V. (Eds.) Per un currículum plurilingüe i

pluricultural / Vers un curriculum plurilingue et pluriculturel. Bellaterra: Servei de

Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Other

12. Participation in conferences, workshops, lectures, masters:

• 20th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 2014.

• Symposium on Discourse and Society Studies (EDiSo), Seville, May 2014.

• Congrés LINEE+ Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 2014.

• Catalan Group of Sociolinguistics (SOCS), May 2014.

• VII Educational Spring, Catalan Society of Education, 7-8 May 2014.

• Participation of Júlia Llompart in Melinda Dooly’s class on Plurilingualism from

the Masters in Education.

• XVIII Inter-universities Conference on Research in Teaching Language and

Literature at the University of Barcelona, April 2014.

• Presentation of papers on language uses by students of 4th ESO from the

Institute Milà i Fontanals at Luci Nussbaum’s class on Plurilingualism.

• Melinda Dooly invited to the University of Aarhus in Denmark, March 2014.

• IV International Symposium on Teaching Catalan at the University of Vic, April

2014.

• Lecture by Dr. Emilee Moore at the University of South Australia, March 2014.

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• 6th Seminar of the ongoing work of the research group Identi.Cat, March 2014.

• Congress on Language and Super-diversity, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 5-7

June 2013.

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COMMITMENTS FOR THE FUTURE (SGR)

13. Scientific sessions, to be concreted:

– LANCOOK data (Javier Albines & Marta Juanhuix).

– ‘Andorra Model’ (Artur Noguerol?)

– One day conference inviting experts to talk about the model, its

difficulties, etc. (Artur Noguerol/Luci Nussbaum will make a list of +-25

persons)

– Conference in Girona: 2 workshops - November 21 & 22- (Arthur

Noguerol, Dolors Masats, Luci Nussbaum, Matilde Martínez). Recycling

these workshops for the GREIP / PhD conference in January 2015.

Technical sessions:

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

PRAAT, TRANSANA…) (Emilee Moore).

– Emilee Moore: web tutorial on data collection & transcription, devices,

etc. to put in the ‘materials’ section on the GREIP website and as a

chapter in the handbook (see 14.a. on ' commitments for the future’).

14. Edition of 2 books

a. 2014-2015: Handbook: Edited by Melinda Dooly & Emilee Moore. In 3

languages.

Proposal and chapters reviewing:

i. Change of ‘Tools & Resources’ for ‘Things to Have in Mind’

ii. Júlia Llompart changes focus groups;

iii. Eulàlia Borràs will write a chapter;

iv. Mireia Sala will write about access to the ground;

v. Dolors Masats: ‘tasks’ as tools or as case studies? Free to

choose;

vi. Think about the ‘approach’ to interculturality;

vii. Lenght: 3000 words for theoretical chapters, 5000-6000 words

for case studies;

viii. Melinda Dooly: will send the document with chapters and

editing rules.

b. 2015-2016: Festschrift: GREIP since 2005

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15. Congress organization: IALIC

16. Continue with the cycle of readings in conjunction with the faculty’s doctoral

studies

17. Commitment to consolidate the group, maximize efforts and increase

productivity and efficiency of the group’s work:

a. PIs: at least one publication / year

b. Tutors/Directors: at least one publication / year with PhD students

c. Publications from data sessions

d. Harness connections with ex-members and associates (Argentina,

Southampton…)

Other

The attending members agreed to ask for the incorporation of new members once the

AGAUR allows changes to the SGR.

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

Bellaterra, july 15 2014