Balaman, Musk, Sert & Thorne: Inspiring speakers at 3-day workshop

Everyone who attended the intensive 3-day sessions entitled ‘Why Conversation Analysis (CA) in the era of big data?’ all agree that the event was exciting and insightful from the beginning to the end. The 3 days included talks by Ufuk Balaman, Nigel Musk, Olcay Sert and Steven L. Thorne along with a CA workshop, data […]

GREIP gets recognition and funding as ‘consolidated research group’ from the Catalan Government’s Agency of Support for University Research (AGAUR)

For the fourth consecutive time since 2005, our group has been granted recognition and funding as ‘consolidated research group’ by the Catalan Government’s Agency of Support for University Research (AGAUR). We are especially proud since the requirements have raised significatively in recent years, making it really hard for small groups to get funding. Still, our […]

Un projecte d’aula vinculat al GREIP, premiat per l’Associació de Professors i Professores d’Anglès de Catalunya i el British Council

Investigadores del GREIP i dues professores de l’Escola Sant Jordi de Mollet del Vallès, junt amb alumnes de tercer de Primària d’aquest centre, han rebut el Premi John McDowell 2017 en la categoria col·lectiva pel projecte “Launching a Solidarity Campaing to Support Four Syrian Kids Stranded in Greece”. Aquest premi, atorgat per l’Associació de Professors […]

GREIP presenta en Jornades de l’ICE UAB

Les nostres companyes Melinda Dooly, Dolors Masats i Maria Mont van presentar una ponència dins de les jornades ‘Multidisciplinary integrative English projects in primary schools’, organitzades pel Institut de Ciènies de l’Educació (ICE) de la UAB en col.laboració amb el grup GREIP. La conferència va plantejar, a través d’exemples reals, els principis teòrics per dur a […]

Project gets award!

The ‘Solidarity Campaign’ project, funded by KONECT and working in conjunction with the ARMIF project ‘Preparem als futurs mestres d’anglès …’, has been awarded the John McDowell prize by APAC (Associació de Professors i Professores d’Anglès de Catalunya). The prize is given to experiences in the classroom that focus on reflection or research in the […]

2 Day Workshop with Dr. Kate Cowan

GREIP members, doctoral and MA students, along with the invited audience, enjoyed the very stimulating talk and workshop about transcribing multimodal data, offered by Dr. Kate Cowan of Institute of Education, University College London. Additionally, PhD candidate, Nathaly González presented her data, providing a springboard for a very animated discussion on how to deal with […]

GREIP members’ publish chapter on digital kitchens

Dolors Masats and Marta Juanhuix, along with PhD candidate Javier Albines, have published a chapter entitled “‘The more I cook, the more I learn’: Tracing Ava’s Learning Itinerary through her Participation in Four Cooking Sessions, ” in a book edited by Dr. Paul Seedhouse. The book explores a real-world digital environment (a digitalized kitchen) and how […]

Research Session EVALUATE

While taking part in the teacher training workshop, Melinda Dooly also participated in a data analysis session and research discussion on ways to move forward with the data collected thus far in the EU Evaluate project. GREIP’s insight El volum de dades que es recopilen de més de 1000 participants en intercanvis de telecomunicacions és […]

Greip members edit LAIC’s special issue on Language and Intercultural Communication

Following IALIC’s 2017 conference, held in Barcelona and organized by GREIP, Melinda Dooly and Claudia Vallejo have been guest editors for the association journal’s special issue “LAIC 18.1: Bridging across languages and cultures in everyday lives: new roles for changing scenarios”. It has been a very rewarding experience and the editors would like to thank […]