Melinda Dooly has had the opportunity to present and discuss research results from the KONECT project at different education faculties in the USA during the month of August. Here she is shown talking at the Centre of Excellence in Teaching, Lee University (Tennessee). She has also visited Western Carolina University and had a chance to […]
Francesca Helm and Melinda Dooly presented a paper entitled ‘If u can hear me raise yr hand: Challenges of transcribing multimodal CMC data in the AILA world congress, held in Rio de Janeiro at the end of July. The paper stems from Helm’s recently defended doctoral thesis, supervised by Dooly and has been published in Language […]
Amparo Tusón, Luci Nussbaum, Júlia Llompart, Marta Juanhuix y Emilee Moore, del grupo GREIP, junto a Helena Calsamiglia y Celso Álvarez-Cáccamo, presentaron en EDiSo2017 el material “Converses amb John J. Gumperz”, editado por GREIP. La tabla redonda, acto inaugural de las jornadas, nos acercó a la figura de Gumperz como maestro y persona, y a […]
GREIP va participar activament al congrés EDiSo2017 que es va celebrar els dies 28, 29 i 30 de juny a la UPF de Barcelona. Membres del nostre grup van formar part de l’organització, de l’acte d’inauguració dedicat a Gumperz i de diversos panels i comunicacions. Van ser tres dies molt interessants i productius en què […]
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 […]