Contact: claudia.vallejo@uab.cat
Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein holds a PhD in language teaching and is a senior research technician of the Horizon2020 project ‘NEW ABC’, led in Catalonia by the research group MIRAS. She is also a member of the research group on Education, Interaction and Plurilingualism GREIP from the Faculty of Education at UAB.
She combines research with teaching as an associate professor at the Primary Education Degree, and supervises master dissertations in the Official Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate and in the Official Master’s Degree in Chinese Didactics for Spanish speakers, both at UAB. She has also conducted several seminars and teacher training modules on didactics of plurilingualism, linguistic and cultural diversity, gender perspective and critical discourse analysis in institutions of higher education and socio-educational programs.
She has participated in several local and international research and innovation projects on education in multilingual contexts, on childhood and citizenship and on social inequalities in education.
She has published and edited special issues in prestigious journals, including International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language and Intercultural Communication and Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature (indexed in quartile 1), among others.
Selected recent publications:
Vallejo, C. (2022). Plurilingual practices and pluriliteracies in an after-school program: Encouraging children’s use of their entire repertoire for meaning making. In Masats & Nussbaum (Eds.), Plurilingual classroom practices and participation. Analysing interaction in local and translocal settings (pp. 43-53). Routledge.
Vallejo, C. (2022). “Soc massa bo”: Pràctiques plurilingües i de pluriliteracitat empoderadores en un programa extraescolar. In Llompart & Vallejo (Eds.) Special Issue: Comprender las prácticas plurilingües y de socialización del alumnado diverso para la transformación y la inclusión educativas. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 15(2), 1-19.
Vallejo, C. (2020). Child-volunteer socialisation in an after-school programme: A case study about transcaring and transformation. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(6), 513-530.
Vallejo, C. (2020). Translanguaging as practice and as outcome: Bridging across educational milieus through a collaborative Service-Learning project. In Moore, Bradley & Simpson (Eds.), Translanguaging as transformation: The collaborative construction of new linguistic realities (pp. 234-250). Multilingual Matters.
Vallejo, C. i Dooly, M. (2020). Plurilingualism and translanguaging: emergent approaches and shared concerns. In Dooly & Vallejo (Eds.) Special Issue: The evolution of language teaching: Towards plurilingualism and translanguaging. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 23(1): 1-16.