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🎤 👏 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”
Job opportunity! Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13). More info: www.upf.edu/web/traducci...
Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13)
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A talk by gesture expert Dr. Patrick Rohrer!
ISGS Catalonia Hub@isgscatalonia.bsky.social · 3mo agoMaking Waves meeting, last before summer! Time: 1st July 2026, 15:00 – 16:00 (CET) Topic: From Speech to Gesture: Theoretical Tensions in the Notion of Prominence Speaker: Patrick L. Rohrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Zoom link: upf-edu.zoom.us/j/96178988270 sites.google.com/view/making-...
(re)watch the talk on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/T-JPf392eho
Signed vs. Spoken; Language Reconsidered
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GRECIL research group (UOC) online seminar! 📅 Wednesday, June 17 🕥 10:30 am (UTC+2 / CEST) 🔗 meet.google.com/wmm-fpue-vzw Bootstrapping word order: the role of audiovisual phrasal prosody Irene de la Cruz Pavía (Ramon y Cajal researcher & Ikerbaske Research Fellow, Deusto University)
Upcoming Lecture !! Dr. Laurence Meurant (University of Namur) Signed vs. Spoken: Language Reconsidered 📅 Date: May 22 ⏰ Time: 3 pm (GMT+2) 📍Room 52.117 (Campus Poblenou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & 💻 Online via Zoom – link provided upon registration: forms.gle/3CsTnajVyb4w...
@grepgupf.bsky.social Upcoming GrEPG Seminar at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The seminar will be on-site, although an online connection will also be available: upf-edu.zoom.us/j/9473552994...
❗️New chapter 📝 From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms 📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton 👥 @ting-yao.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms
From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition a...
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❗️New chapter out 📝 Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us 📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton 👥 Xiaotong Xi, @florencebaills.bsky.social, Peng Li and Pilar Prieto 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us
Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy on page 115.
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🎙️ Next CLAminari 👩🏫 Mariia Pronina 🗣️ Sociolinguistic factors of heritage intonation in Russian-speaking children in Catalonia 📅 10 March 2026 ⏰ 12:00–13:30 💻 Online, register here: https://rb.gy/0xlly5
Yesterday, E. Arno and M. Aguilar presented the T.I.M.E. webinar 💻: “The IMPROVE project: Embedding Intercultural Communicative Competence in Virtual and Blended Mobility” 🎓🤝✨
hey!! It's happening tomorrow! You can still register!
@florencebaills.bsky.social · 7mo agoDon't miss it!
🎉 Thank you for another excellent #CLAMINARI...Yesterday’s talk by Ïo Valls on “The use of #virtualreality to enhance young students’ public #speakingskills & #selfconfidence” was truly insightful 🙌 Lively and enriching discussion ✨A big thank-you to everyone who joined us! 🤝
🎬@florencebaills.bsky.social will share at #APTIS25, on behalf of the #AVTIA team of the UdL, a pedagogical proposal to equip teachers/students with the skills to teach and learn inclusive practices through #audiovisual #translation and #subtitling for the #deaf & hard of hearing💻
🎤 Upcoming #CLAMINARI 🗣️ Invited speaker: Ïo Valls (@IoRates) from University of South Denmark 💡 Title: The use of #virtualreality to enhance young students’ public #speakingskills and #selfconfidence 🕛 Time: 12h 💻 Online 🔗 Link: https://shorturl.at/GfdK2 Don’t miss it!🌟
Colleagues from #AVTIA (https://avtia.ro/) presented their project on #inclusive #audiovisualtranslation 📽️ at @SmartCityexpo in Barcelona. Their participation was possible thanks to research group #TRACTE at @uvic-ucc.cat (https://mon.uvic.cat/tracte/es/) and Xarxa AccessCat
🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity! 🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody 🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt All details in the image ⬇️ Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality
🎓💡 Do you want to pursue a PhD with us? We aim to sponsor a candidate for an Inphinit Predoctoral Retaining Fellowship, a competitive call for predoctoral fellowships awarded by La Caixa. 📅 Deadline for application: 14/11/2025. More information here: www.udg.edu/ca/grupsrece...
Grups de recerca > Sponsorship for La Caixa Inphinit Predoctoral Retaining Fellowship
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📢 CLA community managers (I. Diert-Boté & B. Moncada-Comas) ran a training session on social media use for teachers of the MA in Language & Digital Communication 🙌 We hope participants found it useful and are ready to put ideas into practice! #TeacherTraining
🚨New Publication 📘Dismantling the #NativeSpeaker Construct in #English Language #Teaching (@routledgebooks), edited by E. Llurda, is out now! 👏 👉First chapter by Llurda is FREE to access: Bringing down the wall of #nativespeakerism 🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003427537
The ENIS project has officially ended ✨ At the final seminar in Brussels, J. Borràs & team shared the network’s research outlets📊 BUT the network will continue as an association 🎉 Judith will get it started 🚀 Want to join? Comment below!
www.envisionbox.org has been shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science price: ukb.nl/en/news/shor... @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @sarkadava.bsky.social @DavideAhmar @acwiek.bsky.social Amazing Markus Küpper made an animated video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HduI...
EnvisionBOX overview2025
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Back in Paris 🇫🇷 for a few days, F. Baills conducted the workshop on #gesture_annotation using #ELAN 🖥️ The session was part of #Real2Phon2025 🔊 Methods and tools in #L2 #phonology #phonetics interactions 👉 real2phon2025.sciencesconf.org
Today is the inaugural event of the @isgscatalonia.bsky.social with a lecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita from University of Warwick on Gesture, language and thought
🎉 Congras to E. Arnó & M. Aguilar! Their project #IMMERLIT has been accepted🙌 It will explore ways to enhance students’ #disciplinary_literacies using #immersive learning environments in #English for #Specific_Purposes contexts. Looking forward to the outcomes!📚💡
Happy to share that one of the studies of my PhD is now published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology @ashajournals.bsky.social In this study, in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada, we describe the co-creation of the MMN intervention pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...
Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings
Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...
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📢 #AELFE 📢 🎯5th Open Access Research Methods Webinar 👉Writing Your Lit Review: Telling a Research Story 🎙️Christine B. Feak 💻Zoom 🗓️1 Oct 2025 🕐13h–15h (MAD) 📢Deadline 24 Sept 2025 📩Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjTXZ6uwpn3TfdoGb2UfXUgWNwRu-RrWjgT701s1PkAZVZjQ/viewform
