On April 17th, 2018, Dr Jim Cummins (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto) presented the conference “Pedagogical Landscapes in Bilingual and Immersion Programs: A Dialogue between Instructional Practice and Emerging Theory ” to a crowded audience of GREIP researchers, PhD students and colleagues from diverse institutions. Dr. Cummins shared insights […]
GREIP members Emilee Moore, Júlia Llompart and Claudia Vallejo presented communications at the TLANG conference organized in Birmingham on March 28th and 29th, 2018. Their presentations were part of the panel ‘Translanguaging: The collaborative construction of new linguistic realities’, organized by Moore, Jessica Bradley and James Simpson, and which related to their upcoming edited book […]
The KONECT project has been well-represented these past weeks in 3 different conferences. First Melinda (with colleague and team member Dr. Randall Sadler of UIUC) presented results from their work at the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2018 conference in Chicago (USA), then Nathaly González Acevedo, Jelena Marjanovic and Saliha Özcan (PhD candidates and KONECT […]
Dr. Artur Noguerol va pronunciar la xerrada d’obertura de les XXII Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura (20 i 21 de març de 2018). La xerra va comptar amb la presència d’un gran grup de professors universitaris i estudiants de postgrau i doctorals i va ser molt ben acollit […]
El proyecto KONECT cerró su ciclo de talleres y conferencias con el seminario: La creatividad y la educación lingüística del siglo XXI: seminario abierto para investigadores y profesionales. El seminario, organizado conjuntamente con la nueva red de la AILA llamada ‘Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics’ [la Investigación Creativa en la Lingüística Aplicada] exploró la dialéctica […]
Saliha Özcan has been awarded the ‘best paper’ for her presentation entitled ‘Fostering learning language and 21st century skills through telecollaboration’ at the 12th International Conference on Business, Social Sciences, Humanities and Education (BSSHE-18) in Kuala Lumpur. Her paper presents a preliminary analysis of data compiled from a secondary education telecollaborative project within the wider […]
In our penultimate talk and workshop hosted by the project KONECT, Dr. Shannon Sauro of Mälmo University gave a stimulating talk about the different ways in which fanfiction can be integrated into multilingual and multimodal language education. This was followed by a hands-on introductory workshop for language teachers, showing how participants how to access and […]
Joan Ploettner va presentar les seves dades ahir, 5 de març. Les seves dades són provenint d’enregistraments de formació docent en entorns d’EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction). Joan va presentar les dades a un grup d’investigadors, incloent-hi Dra Shannon Sauro de la Universitat de Mälmo. La sessió va ser molt animada amb observacions interessants sobre […]
Dra. Margaret Hawkins, del School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison (EUA), va donar la conferència: Transmodalitats: conceptualització de les potencialitats semióticas en comunicacions transnacionals el dijous 1 de març. La xerrada, basada en part per recerca compartida entre ella i persones del grup GREIP (Dra. Emilee Moore, Dra. Júlia Llompart i Claudia Vallejo), tractava de […]