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ACTIVITY REPORT

Research Group on Plurilingual

Interaction and Teaching

Annual Report 2009-2010

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Research Group on Plurilingual

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CONTENTS

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ...................................................................................... p. 3

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects up to 2010

Fig. 2. Main activities

Fig. 3. Scientific & innovative teaching production

ONGOING ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................... p. 5

Development of ongoing projects

Organization of seminars and training activities

Other

NEWS ......................................................................................................................... p. 7

Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals

New group members

CONTRIBUTIONS (publications, scientific productions, etc.) ............................ p. 9

Published articles or chapters

Audiovisual output

Participation in scientific networks and agencies

GLOBAL PERSPECTIV

Fig. 1. Participation in & closure of projects

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Scientific & innovative teaching production

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International Journals

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Teaching Materials

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International Journals

National Journals

Teaching Materials

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES

1. Development of ongoing projects:

� Multilingual Competences of Secondary School Students: Continuities and

Discontinuities between Educational and non Educational Practices

(DECOMASAI) (2007-2010)

� Digital Video Streaming and Multilingualism (DIVIS) (2008-2010)

� Joint Curriculum in Teacher Education (JoMiTE) (2007-2010)

� Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures (CARAP), ECML European

Council (2008-2011)

2. Organization of seminars and training activities:

� III Meeting on Semi-immersion in Catalonia

I Round Table on AICLE Programmes

28-29/04/2009

Plenary Conferences: Neus Santmartí (UAB), Tözün Issa (Centre for

Multilingualism in Education, University of North London), Joaquim Arnau

(UB), Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Viena Universität).

� IV Meeting on Semi-immersion in Catalonia

Teaching English in the Cosmopolitan University

01/06/2009

Presentations by UAB faculty members

http://jornades.uab.cat/semiimmersio2010/content/presentaci%C3%B3-0

� The Language Socialization of Foreign Students Arriving Late to the

Educational System

22-23/10/2009

Guests: Violaine Bigot (Université Paris III);Patricia Lambert (Institut National

de Recherche Pédagogique, Lyon), Marie-Thérese Vasseur (Université du

Maine).

� Work & training sessions:

- 3 methodological data sessions, open to master and PhD students.

- 5 sessions for discussing research theories and practices, open to master and

PhD students.

- Regular meetings from the ongoing research projects’ teams.

� In preparation:

- The languages of learning and socializing (03-04/05/2011)

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- Funds requested for organizing meetings and inviting guests (Alan Firth,

Newcastle University).

- Participation in organizing activities related to the Master on Research in

Language and Literature Teaching.

3. Other:

� Participation in RecerCaixa call (pending resolution).

� Participation in the ‘Autónoma Solidaria’ call for a cooperation project in

Argentina (pending resolution).

� Conducting an inventory on the transferral activities of the group in the last 5

years.

� Participation in international meetings and conferences.

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NEWS

4. Projects awarded in competitive publicly funded calls for proposals:

� Academic Discourse in a Foreign Language: Learning and Assesment of

Science Content in the Multilingual CLIL Classroom (DALE-APECS).

From 2011 to 2013

Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Innovation. EDU2010-15783 (subprogramme

EDUC)

Budget: 72.000€

PI: Dr. Cristina Escobar Urmeneta (GREIP member)

Participating universities: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Universidad de

Almería

� Plurilingual, Audiovisual and Digital Competences as Means to Construct

Knowledge in Multilingual and Multicultural Communities of Practice (PADS)

From 2010 to 2013

Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Innovation. EDU2010-17859 (subprogramme

EDUC)

Budget: 71.900€

PI: Dr. Dolors Masats Viladoms (GREIP member)

Participating universities: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

More information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/projectes-de-

recerca

� European Network ‘Language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues’

From january 2010 to 2012

Sponsor: EACEA (505107-LLP-1-2009-1-LU-KA2-KA2NW)

Budget for GREIP: 38.240 €

PI: Prof. Charles Marx

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PI UAB: Dr. Melinda Ann Dooly (jan.-nov. 2010); Dra. Laia Canals (nov. 2010-

dec. 2012)

Participating universities: University of Luxembourg, Institut National de

Recherche Pédagogique, P.A.U. Education, Radio France Internationale (RFI),

UAB, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Latvia,

University Ovidius Constanta, Romania, College of Foreign Languages,

Czestochowa, Poland, ADALSIC, Y.E.S. Forum, University of Turku, Deutsche

Welle & Université Stendhal Grenoble III.

More information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/projectes-de-

recerca

5. New group members:

� Dr. Xavier Pascual i Calvo, UAB

� Dr. Laia Canals, UAB

� Dr. Lorenza Mondada, ICAR Research Lab, CNRS, Université Lyon2

(Associate member)

� TSR: Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein (replacing Adriana Patiño)

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CONTRIBUTIONS

6. Published articles or chapters:

� 9 on international publications

� 16 on national or dissemination journals

(see http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/2009 &

http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/2010)

7. Audiovisual output:

� Video ‘Plurilingualism’

Posted on Internet and distributed on DVD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnOKocBep0;

http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/v%C3%ADdeos-publicats-pel-grup-

greip

� Videos from project DECOMASAI

Available at http://pagines.uab.cat/decomasai/content/p%C3%A0gina-resultats

� Videos from project DIVIS

Available at http://divisproject.eu/; http://blocs.xtec.cat/divis;

http://blocs.xtec.cat/videocatalunya/

� Didactic sequences and webquests posted on GREIP’s website and in

preparation

Available at http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/greip/content/materials:

- Jobs of the sea

- Rainforests

- Multimodal reading

8. Participation in scientific networks and agencies:

� Registered as an entity in the scientific agenda ‘Talència’, where GREIP

activities can be disseminated:

http://www.recercaenaccio.cat/agaur_reac/AppJava/ca/activitats.jsp

� Registered in the UAB Digital Repository of Documents, where you can locate

and share documents with the entire UAB community:

http://ddd.uab.cat/

More information at http://greip.uab.cat

Bellaterra, july 2010