🔎🌙 Alguns membres del CLA participaran en la Nit Europea de la Recerca el proper 2 d’octubre al Campus Cappont! Tres ponències per descobrir, debatre i reflexionar sobre llengües, educació i mobilitat 🌍🗣️📚 #NitRecerCat
Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA)
@cla-udl.bsky.social
Content about the dissemination of sociolinguistic research and the teaching/learning of foreign languages at the Universitat de Lleida. https://www.cla.udl.cat/
🌟Bones notícies per a Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana! A més de Web of Science i Carhus Plus+, ara també és a Scopus. 🔎 📢Crida oberta per al TSC37: «Llengües minoritzades, desigualtats i interseccionalitat». 📚 🔗https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSC/index
📚 New publication! X. Martin-Rubió, L. Lacasa-Cervelló & I. Diert-Boté (@irati_db) explore future #EFL teachers’ identities. ➡️ Pre-service EFL teachers’ #ideologies and #self_concepts: Juggling between #intelligibility and #nativeness discourses 🔗https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/650251
📚 New publication! J. Borràs and colleagues explore how Virtual Exchange can prepare and motivate students for study abroad ➡️ “A pre-mobility approach: investigating the role of virtual exchange in study abroad preparation" 🌍✈️ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14708477.2026.2667259
1/3 📚💥#CLAminari is back! Yesterday, we kicked off the new academic year with two PhD students from the CLA sharing their research projects. 👏 Thanks, Núria and Marta, for sharing your research with us! 🧵
📚 More on English at university! You’re all invited to the book manuscript workshop around the work by Josep Soler-Carbonell (Stockholm University) on Linguistic Justice at the University. 🎓 @mariasabatedalmau.bsky.social will be one of the convenors — 30 Sept at 9:30. All welcome! 👋
🎤 👏 Great to see @florencebaills.bsky.social & colleagues at MMSYM with 2 posters: ✨ “Prosodic gesture-intonation coordination in future teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language” ✨ “Presenting the ANM project: Annotation standards for non-manual elements in multimodal communication”
Recharged 🔋! Last Friday M. Sabate gave a talk on “Linguistic Minorities, Migration and Discrimination: The Case of Catalonia” ✊🏿 at the Séminaire intensif de Sociolinguistique du Multilinguisme, organised by Inalco 👏
CLA on the move! This summer, F. Baills took part in EuroSLA in Lisbon, presenting two studies: 🎤 #Gestures in teaching the #pronunciation of speech acts: what do teachers really do? 📌 Karaoke training enhances L2 pronunciation: the role of practice frequency ✨
🎓✨ We’re back! A new academic year begins, and we’re ready for new ideas, research and challenges. Let’s go! 💙
☀️ And... that's a wrap for this academic year! Thank you for following our research, events and achievements throughout the course 💙 We wish you a wonderful summer! 🌴
📚 Si us interessa la recerca #qualitativa i l'ús de les entrevistes en #lingüística aplicada, no us perdeu la ressenya en català que la @judith_borras ha escrit del llibre "Interviews in Applied Linguistics" (Block, 2024). ✨ https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/154638
🎉 Another paper out! Oral #lexical gains in Spanish as a second language: The role of a semester-long #studyabroad experience in a #multilingual context" by Glòria Vázquez & Àngels Llanes is now available! ⬇️
Oral lexical gains in Spanish as a second language
Abstract Although the effects of a study abroad (SA) experience have been investigated, the impact of a SA experience in a multilingual setting is unknown. The present study examines oral lexical L2 development in Spanish as a foreign language over a three-month SA experience in a multilingual setting (Spanish, Catalan, and English). To track oral lexical development in Spanish, 18 international students spending a semester at a Catalan university were asked to explain a story in Spanish at the beginning and at the end of their stay. Data were examined quantitatively (lexical complexity) and qualitatively (through two different measures of incorrect lexical exchanges, one involving only Spanish words and the other one involving words from other languages). Results indicated that participants used more varied words and made fewer lexical exchanges involving other languages at the post-test. However, the qualitative results showed that, although participants learned more words, they did not use them appropriately.
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📚 The article "#Identity at the crossroads: #ELF-compatible, ambivalent and normative perspectives among #English teacher educators" by I. Diert-Boté, J. Ruiz González & I. Pineda was published a few weeks ago...🎉 Give it a read! ⬇️
Identity at the crossroads: ELF-compatible, ambivalent and normative perspectives among English teacher educators - Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
This study investigates how English Studies teacher educators construct and negotiate their linguistic and pedagogical identities, focusing on orientations toward English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), standard language norms, and translanguaging. Based on five semi-structured interviews with university lecturers from two Spanish institutions, the research explores (1) their language orientations and self-perceived proficiency along an ELF-nativeness continuum, and (2) the alignment between these identities and their self-reported pedagogical practices. The analysis reveals three recurring identity/ideological positions—ELF-compatible, ambivalent, and normative—linked to distinct approaches in the classroom. Educators that follow ELF principles promote linguistic diversity and flexible language use; normative-oriented lecturers emphasize correctness and native-speaker standards; and ambivalent participants reveal ideological tensions and shifting stances. The findings suggest that linguistic identity is closely related to self-reported teaching practices, which tend to align, though to varying degrees, with ELF principles in support of students’ learning processes. Overall, the study highlights the importance of fostering critical reflection in teacher education.
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📚 New article out! "From Traditional to Innovative Teaching: #ESP Teacher Perceptions of Implementing #VirtualReality" by B. Moncada-Comas, E. Arnó-Macià & M. Aguilar-Pérez has been published in ESP Today. 🎉 Read it here: https://doi.org/10.18485/esptoday.2026.14.2.3
🌏 CLA on the move! This month, @enricllurda.bsky.social visited Japan🇯🇵, where he delivered three invited talks language teaching, multilingualism and language policy🧵
🎉 New publication! 📚 Congratulations to Balbina Moncada-Comas & Irati Diert-Boteon the publication of their new book chapter, From brochures to blogs: Opportunities and challenges in implementing a digital genre in English for Tourism. Check it out! https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582861-17
🎉 Proud of our CLA researchers! 👏 The latest Ranking of Women Researchers in Spain highlights the scientific impact of more than 12,000 researchers 🌟 Congratulations to Yasemin Bayyurt, Àngels Llanes, and Elisabet Arnó for being among them! 💜📚
📚Congrats to Florence Baills, who co-authored a chapter in #Gesture in Second Language Acquisition (#SLA) and #Pedagogy! 👏 📝 “Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us” 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111568645-007
🎉 That's a wrap for this year's final #CLAminari! 🎤 Today we enjoyed two fantastic presentations: ✨ Anca & Florence introduced the AVTIA Project, exploring how audiovisual translation can foster inclusion in Higher Education. 😎 Guzmán reflected on his incredible 10-year research journey at CLA!
🤖🇪🇺 La Glòria Vázquez ha participat en una estada Erasmus+ de formació al Dorset College (Dublín) (15-19 de juny), realitzant el curs Artificial Intelligence for Higher Education. Continuem apostant per la innovació i la internacionalització! #ErasmusPlus #IA #HigherEducation
📢 The next #CLAminari is just around the corner! 🎤This edition features: ✨@dfanca.bsky.social & @florencebaills.bsky.social with the AVTIA Project: Enhancing inclusion in Higher Education through audiovisual translation 😎 Guzman Mancho reflecting on his 10-year research experience at CLA!
📢 Calvet-Terré & Llurda's (@enricllurda.bsky.social) new paper out: “From #cognition to #affect: a longitudinal study of pre-service teachers’ evolving #attitudes in response to a course on #English as a global language” ✨
From cognition to affect: a longitudinal study of pre-service teachers’ evolving attitudes in response to a course on English as a global language
An increasing number of studies have proposed strategies for integrating the role of English as a global lingua franca into teacher education programs as a way to respond to the demands posed by th...Un nombre creixent d’estudis han proposat estratègies per a integrar el paper de l’anglès com ...
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Today, we had the pleasure of having Şebnem Yalçin from Boğaziçi Universitesi (Türkiye) with us! She talked about the need to include older adults in research so this age group is represented in academic findings and their consequent practices. Thanks for this eye opening talk!
Colleagues from the @immer_lit project recently hosted an amazing seminar! 🎓✨ They gathered at ETSEIB to share progress and explore how #VirtualReality 🥽 and #COIL 🖥️are transforming #communication skills in engineering. Great insights for the future of education! 🚀
🌍Marta Aguilar, Elisabet Arnó & colleagues presented at #UniCollaboration2026 in Cyprus : 🎓 @immer_lit: VR + Virtual Exchange for #ESP engineering students 🤝 IMPROVE: intercultural competence in #BIP & #COIL 🚀 BIPs: transdisciplinary BIPs from an LSP teacher perspective
🎤 Maria Sabaté-Dalmau (@DalmauSabate), invited by Institut Ramon Llull, will give an online plenary talk on “Migrants’ language choices in minoritised language contexts” (FU Berlin & U. des Saarlandes) 📅 10/6, 12:15 CET ℹ️ https://romanistik.de/aktuelles/9085 & @catala_berlin (Instagram)
Judith Borràs and Thais Mena attended the 4th #ENIS Conference in Neuchâtel 🇨🇭 presenting their latest study and collaborations with colleagues from UB, Basel Uni, and TED Uni. Lots of great ideas exchanged...and it definitely looks like they enjoyed every minute of it! 😄✨
New OA review by @judith-borras.bsky.social & colleagues at ENIS network: language is key to friendships, confidence & well-being during #studyabroad 🌍🗣️ and it strongly shapes students’ sociocultural adaptation to the host country📚✨
Target language use and development and sociocultural and psychological adaptation during study abroad: A systematic narrative review of barriers and facilitators | Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
Target language use and development and sociocultural and psychological adaptation during study abroad: A systematic narrative review of barriers and facilitators Authors Anne Marie Devlin University College Cork Emma Riordan University College Cork Judith Borràs Universitat de Lleida María Victor...
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