Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA)

🎉 The 2024-25 academic year comes to an end! Thank you for following our research: publications, conferences, events, courses, and projects. 🌞 Time to rest, recharge, and enjoy the summer. We’ll be back in September with more research and fresh energy to share!

S. López Serrano y J. Borràs reflect on the future of #written_feedback at university: human or #AI? ✅ AI helps with quick fixes, but ✅human feedback brings context, empathy & depth.The key? A hybrid model combining the best of both worlds 👉 https://shorturl.at/zqdUJ

🎤 La Montse Irun ha fet una xerrada inspiradora a Ice-Udl : El professorat del futur: Humans i IA caminant junts 💭 Reflexions sobre com la IA ens fa repensar l’aprenentatge i l’avaluació. Cal preparar els futurs docents per fer-ne un bon ús!

Almost the end of July but CLA doen’t stop! 💥 Florence Baills presented at #ISGS2025 (Gesture Society) her poster "Exploring future Spanish as a foreign #language_teachers' use of #gesture for #prosodic instruction"➡️there’s room for training to boost impact!🚀

📢 New chapter out! “#LanguageTeacher #Nativeness/#Nonnativeness” by Enric Llurda & Júlia Calvet-Terré in the Handbook of Language Teacher Education 📚 A systematic review (2010-2020) on a key topic 👉 https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-031-47310-4_5

La coordinadora del #CLA, Maria Sabaté Dalmau, ha intervingut al programa La Selva (@som3cat) per parlar sobre l’acte polèmic contra el #català a l’Ajuntament de Barcelona📢 Imprescindible! https://www.3cat.cat/3cat/maria-sabate-dalmau-el-catala-no-es-una-llengua-de-segona/video/6349618/

📢 New article of #CLA members Diet-Boté, Moncada-Comas & Martin-Rubió in Iberica Journal: Enhancing Genre Pedagogy and Teacher Wellbeing in ESP" 📰 They reflect on how #ActionResearch can boost both #genre teaching & teacher #wellbeing in ESP contexts: https://doi.org/10.17398/2340-2784.49.19

Dilluns, l’@enricllurda.bsky.social‬, la Montse Irun i la @judith-borras.bsky.social ‬van representar el CLA a la jornada ICE 2025. Gràcies per l’organització! Tant de bo cada any sorgeixin iniciatives com aquesta que connectin el coneixement docent lleidatà amb la recerca feta a la @udl.cat‬

📅 July 1–2, 2025: @maastrichtu.bsky.social‬ with @openuniversity.bsky.social‬
 hosts a symposium on contested #LanguagePolicies in European #HigherEd🎤 CLA member @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social shared insights on internationalisation, #EMI Policies and classroom challenges from Southern Europe

🔥 CLA Hot Topics #2 🔥 Is going abroad always good for language learning? 🤔 What’s your take? 🌍🗣️ 🗨️ Join the conversation: reply to the thread and share your insights! Whether you're a CLA member or just language-curious, we want to hear from you.

🎤 Excited to share our CLA presentations for the upcoming #AELFE conference (@aelfe.bsky.social‬) organized by GRAPE at @uji.es‬! In our contributions, we explore cutting-edge research on #ESP and #EMI, so don't miss them! 👇

Unveiling the Motivational Tapestry: A Duoethnographic Journey Into two ESP Teachers’ Motivation in Higher Education | The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning Unveiling the Motivational Tapestry: A Duoethnographic Journey Into two ESP Teachers’ Motivation in Higher Education Keywords: complexity theory, duoethnography, English for Specific Purposes, language teacher motivation Abstract Teacher motivation has only recently been explored in relation to hi...

🚨@irati-db.bsky.social‬ & @balbinamc.bsky.social‬ published a #duoethnography on #TeacherMotivation through a #complexity lens in the J. for the Psychology of Language Learning (@iapll.bsky.social‬) 🌀👩‍🏫 (it's open access!) 👇

🎓 Excited to share that our Maria Sabate Dalmau will present at the Contested Language Policies symposium, 1–2 July @ Maastricht University! 📚🔹 Questioned Internationalisation & English-language policies in Southern Europe https://tinyurl.com/ContestedLanguagePolicies

Judith Borràs (@judith-borras.bsky.social‬) participated in the 3rd #ENIS conference in Iași, Romania, on #InternationalStudentMobility 🌍. During the conference, she presented different papers 📄 and was invited to a special "spotlight" session 💡🎤

Eternally grateful for the life choices that have led me to become part of the ENIS Cost Action 💙

I think I'll need some time to recover emotionally 🥲, but I'm already looking forward to the next #ENIS event 🙃

🎤 Excited to share the presentations by CLA members at the #ICLHE 2025 — 6th Symposium of the Spanish Regional Group (@iclhe-spain.bsky.social‬)!

📍Topics range from #discourse practices to professional #identities & classroom #language use in #EMI settings.

🗓️ Join us on June 5-6!👇

Honored to have Adrian Holliday today at CLA! 🌟🎓 He shared his fascinating work on the #varicultural model, a powerful alternative to #intercultural and #transcultural approaches🌍💡We also had the chance to discuss our ELFING & GLOCALSA projects with him!  📚

Last panel at #CLAMINARI: Tech & #Virtual_Exchange in University Internationalisation: #COIL, #interculturality and #EMI
1⃣ Elisabet Arnó-Macià and Marta Aguilar on the #IMPROVE project (@TIMEAssociation)
2⃣ Dogan Yuksel on the impact of EMI beyond language

Next panel of #CLAMINARI: We continue with a critical look at the #psycholinguistic & #sociocultural dimensions of learning English as an L2/L3 in #intercultural settings ✨ Featuring work from the MIGRAPLUR-Ebro Action Group:
1⃣María Pilar Agustín Llach
2⃣ Eva Villar Secanella

📸✨ A full house at the #CLAMINARI closing session! So inspiring to see such a curious, and passionate crowd 🤩🧠💬 Thanks to everyone who showed up, connected, and made this event unforgettable 🙌💡 💬📚🤝

CLAMINARI is now moving to Panel 2: #Multimodal Praxes in English as a Lingua Franca (#ELF). We’re diving into how #attitudes, #identities, and #pedagogy are shaped in ELF contexts, with inspiring insights from:
🔹 Enric Llurda & Inma Pineda (@Elfing_Project)
🔹 Adrian Holliday

#CLAMINARI kicks off today with a deep dive into #StudyAbroad + Smartphones! We’re exploring how mobile tech shapes global & local #language_learning with talks by:
🔹 Carmen Pérez Vidal
🔹 Marianne Gullberg
🔹 Glòria Vázquez & Judith Borràs

It just started! Carmen Pérez Vidal reminds us of the benefits and challenges of Study Abroad for language learning and dives into appropriate research methods/approaches

📢 CLAminari is coming!🌍✨
We’re excited to share the program for this one-day research wrap-up session 🧠💬
📅We’ll reflect on 3+ years of cutting-edge research on #EMI, #ELF, #plurilingualism, #globalcompetence & #internationalisation in the digital era 🚀🌐
👇 Check it out!

Last week, Àngels Llanes (@angelsllanes.bsky.social) gave a fascinating talk at @uniofreading.bsky.social‬ 🏛️called "Foreign languages learning and use in a multilingual study abroad context" 🌍🗣️, with insightful reflections on how mobility shapes multilingualism #SLA #multilingualism #StudyAbroad

🔥 CLA Hot Topics #1 🔥 Is the use of the L1 in the English classroom a problem? 👀 Opinions in our group are mixed… What do you think? 🗨️ Join the conversation: reply to the thread and share your perspective! Whether you’re a CLA member or just curious, we’d love to hear from you.

This week, Judith Borràs (@judith-borras.bsky.social‬) has been giving different seminars and workshops at the Department of English of University of Pretoria (South Africa). It's been a week full of great discussions and knowledge exchange! International mobility at its best 👏

📢Congrats to @earno-macia.bsky.social & @marta-aguilarperez.bsky.social (@upc.edu) Their project Interculturality in Mobility Programs through Virtual Environments, with @balbinamc.bsky.social, KTH & TU Darmstadt, was selected in the T.I.M.E. call 🔗 https://timeassociation.org/t-i-m-e-projects/

📄 New paper by @judith-borras.bsky.social & colleagues at
ENIS Cost Action network! They examine how COVID-19 🦠 affected the integration of international students 🌍 into their host countries & institutions 📚💡
🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s408...

Questioning in online intercultural exchanges | 8 | A critical reflect Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) includes three main components: attitudes, knowledge and skills. In this chapter, we focus on the role of

💬 How do questions influence #intercultural discovery? JM Cots (@josepmcots.bsky.social)& M. Mir explore questioning’s role in developing intercultural communicative competence (#ICC) through a case study of Spanish and American students. 🔗 Read more: