GREIP members held their final session of the 2016-17 academic year with an interesting discussion about theoretical underpinnings of translanguaging and plurilingual education. The group is currently working on a special issue on these topic, along with the presenters from the roundtable held in April of this year. The session ended with some ‘cava’ and […]
Melinda Dooly took part in a workshop held in Padova, Italy (5-7 July). The sessions on designing, implementing and assessing telecollaboration were aimed at teachers who are taking part in the large scale study of telecollaboration. The aim of the European funded project is to provide a systematic analysis of effective ways to broadly implement […]
Melinda Dooly was invited to give the closing plenary at a recent international conference in Prague. Focusing on the stated needs for global citizens and the competences teachers are expected to instil in their students, Dooly raised the issue of applying critical interrogation as regards the focus on ’employability’ without the complementary factor of ‘responsibility’ […]
After five days of donation campaign, the second grade students from CEIP St. Jordi earned 880€ (and 50 cents!). They were also featured on the local news – and they handled their fame with great aplomb. You can see a summary video of the project-in-process here: http://ceipsantjordimollet.cat/intranet/?p=1129 GREIP’s insight Quins resultats més impressionants pel final d’aquest […]
As part of the KONECT project, students at St. Jordi school in Mollet del Vallès, under the tuition of GREIP member, Maria Mont, began their solidarity campaign to help out four Syrian refugee teen-agers. The aim of the interdisciplinary project is to help develop students’ sense of civic responsibility, social awareness and critical and creative […]
Luyan Teng has successfully defended her doctoral thesis in front of a prestigious international viva examining board. Her thesis, entitled “English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning and capital in rural China: A case study of a group of secondary students” was supervised by Dr. Melinda Dooly and Dr. Emilee Moore. Examining Board members were […]
On May 4 2017, Dr. Brendon Clark from RISE Interactive Stockholm and Nicholas Torretta from Umeå Institute of Design, gave the Master lecture & workshop “Co-creating the classroom as a navigation system for language learning in the wild”, sponsored by GREIP & KONECT research project. Both lecturers are design researchers focused on language learning outside the classroom, […]
El dia 2 de maig de 2017, la Dra. Luci Nussbaum, del grup GREIP, va donar la conferència inagural ‘De la collaboration avec les acteurs du terrain à la recherche collaborative’, a l’École de printemps PETALE 2, Réseau MELangE, de la Universitat de París-3. Uns dies abans, el 28 d’abril, va impartir el seminari per […]
Anna Turula’s proposal, supported by GREIP, has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence. This quality label is awarded to all proposals submitted to the MSCA Individual Fellowships Call that scored 85% or more but could not be funded from the call budget. Due to funding cuts, less than 15% of the proposals were […]