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Research Group on Plurilingual
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Research Group on Plurilingual
Interaction and Teaching
Annual Report 2009-2010
TY REPORT
Research Group on Plurilingual
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CONTENTS
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ...................................................................................... p. 3
Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2010
Fig. 2. Main activities
Fig. 3. Scientific & innovative teaching production
ONGOING ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................... p. 5
Development of ongoing projects
Organization of seminars and training activities
Other
NEWS ......................................................................................................................... p. 7
Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals
New group members
CONTRIBUTIONS (publications, scientific productions, etc.) ............................ p. 9
Published articles or chapters
Audiovisual output
Participation in scientific networks and agencies
GLOBAL PERSPECTIV
Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects
Fig. 2. Main activities
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Scientific & innovative teaching production
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International Journals
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Teaching Materials
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International Journals
National Journals
Teaching Materials
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ONGOING ACTIVITIES
1. Development of ongoing projects:
� Multilingual Competences of Secondary School Students: Continuities and
Discontinuities between Educational and non Educational Practices
(DECOMASAI) (2007-2010)
� Digital Video Streaming and Multilingualism (DIVIS) (2008-2010)
� Joint Curriculum in Teacher Education (JoMiTE) (2007-2010)
� Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures (CARAP), ECML European
Council (2008-2011)
2. Organization of seminars and training activities:
� III Meeting on Semi-immersion in Catalonia
I Round Table on AICLE Programmes
28-29/04/2009
Plenary Conferences: Neus Santmartí (UAB), Tözün Issa (Centre for
Multilingualism in Education, University of North London), Joaquim Arnau
(UB), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Viena Universität).
� IV Meeting on Semi-immersion in Catalonia
Teaching English in the Cosmopolitan University
01/06/2009
Presentations by UAB faculty members
http://jornades.uab.cat/semiimmersio2010/content/presentaci%C3%B3-0
� The Language Socialization of Foreign Students Arriving Late to the
Educational System
22-23/10/2009
Guests: Violaine Bigot (Université Paris III);Patricia Lambert (Institut National
de Recherche Pédagogique, Lyon), Marie-Thérese Vasseur (Université du
Maine).
� Work & training sessions:
- 3 methodological data sessions, open to master and PhD students.
- 5 sessions for discussing research theories and practices, open to master and
PhD students.
- Regular meetings from the ongoing research projects’ teams.
� In preparation:
- The languages of learning and socializing (03-04/05/2011)
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- Funds requested for organizing meetings and inviting guests (Alan Firth,
Newcastle University).
- Participation in organizing activities related to the Master on Research in
Language and Literature Teaching.
3. Other:
� Participation in RecerCaixa call (pending resolution).
� Participation in the ‘Autónoma Solidaria’ call for a cooperation project in
Argentina (pending resolution).
� Conducting an inventory on the transferral activities of the group in the last 5
years.
� Participation in international meetings and conferences.
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NEWS
4. Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals:
� Academic Discourse in a Foreign Language: Learning and Assesment of
Science Content in the Multilingual CLIL Classroom (DALE-APECS).
From 2011 to 2013
Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Innovation. EDU2010-15783 (subprogramme
EDUC)
Budget: 72.000€
PI: Dr. Cristina Escobar Urmeneta (GREIP member)
Participating universities: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Universidad de
Almería
� Plurilingual, Audiovisual and Digital Competences as Means to Construct
Knowledge in Multilingual and Multicultural Communities of Practice (PADS)
From 2010 to 2013
Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Innovation. EDU2010-17859 (subprogramme
EDUC)
Budget: 71.900€
PI: Dr. Dolors Masats Viladoms (GREIP member)
Participating universities: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
More information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/projectes-de-
recerca
� European Network ‘Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues’
From january 2010 to 2012
Sponsor: EACEA (505107-LLP-1-2009-1-LU-KA2-KA2NW)
Budget for GREIP: 38.240 €
PI: Prof. Charles Marx
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PI UAB: Dr. Melinda Ann Dooly (jan.-nov. 2010); Dra. Laia Canals (nov. 2010-
dec. 2012)
Participating universities: University of Luxembourg, Institut National de
Recherche Pédagogique, P.A.U. Education, Radio France Internationale (RFI),
UAB, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Latvia,
University Ovidius Constanta, Romania, College of Foreign Languages,
Czestochowa, Poland, ADALSIC, Y.E.S. Forum, University of Turku, Deutsche
Welle & Université Stendhal Grenoble III.
More information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/projectes-de-
recerca
5. New group members:
� Dr. Xavier Pascual i Calvo, UAB
� Dr. Laia Canals, UAB
� Dr. Lorenza Mondada, ICAR Research Lab, CNRS, Université Lyon2
(Associate member)
� TSR: Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein (replacing Adriana Patiño)
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CONTRIBUTIONS
6. Published articles or chapters:
� 9 on international publications
� 16 on national or dissemination journals
(see http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/2009 &
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/2010)
7. Audiovisual output:
� Video ‘Plurilingualism’
Posted on Internet and distributed on DVD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnOKocBep0;
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/v%C3%ADdeos-publicats-pel-grup-
greip
� Videos from project DECOMASAI
Available at http://pagines.uab.cat/decomasai/content/p%C3%A0gina-resultats
� Videos from project DIVIS
Available at http://divisproject.eu/; http://blocs.xtec.cat/divis;
http://blocs.xtec.cat/videocatalunya/
� Didactic sequences and webquests posted on GREIP’s website and in
preparation
Available at http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/materials:
- Jobs of the sea
- Rainforests
- Multimodal reading
8. Participation in scientific networks and agencies:
� Registered as an entity in the scientific agenda ‘Talència’, where GREIP
activities can be disseminated:
http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/ca/activitats.jsp
� Registered in the UAB Digital Repository of Documents, where you can locate
and share documents with the entire UAB community:
http://ddd.uab.cat/
More information at http://greip.uab.cat
Bellaterra, july 2010