🎤 Judith Borràs & Thais Mena presented their talk “Multilingual written development in #ELFSA Contexts” ✍️🌐✨
Judith Borràs
@judith-borras.bsky.social
Dedicated to teaching & passionate about research 😍☀️ Particularly interested in International Student Mobility, language learning, and interculturality 🌎📚💬 Member of @CLA-udl.bsky.social Assistant professor at @udl.cat #ENISnetwork member
🌍✈️ Today at the conference “Learning through mobility: #Linguistic and #intercultural insights from #StudyAbroad” at University of Lleida (@UdL_info), members of the #CLA research group are sharing their latest research! 📚✨
J. Borràs has spent 3 months working at the University of Trakya (Edirne, Turkey). Collaborating with Drs. Uzun and Güvendir has allowed her to work with data from the #GLOCALSA & #INDEST_UdL projects and continue exploring international mobility, languages & education! 💪🏽😍
🎤🌍 Invited speaker spotlight ! J. Borràs particiapted at the conference “Mobilités européennes : enrichir son parcours d’enseignant·e au-delà des frontières” ✈️ 📚🔗 https://maison-langues.univ-lorraine.fr/?formation=mobilites-europeennes-enrichir-son-parcours-denseignante-au-dela-des-frontieres
STUDY ABROAD CONFERENCE➡️the programme highlights mobility as a space for linguistic & intercultural learning. Discussions to rethink the future of study abroad 💡 📍 University of Lleida 🗓️May 18–19, 2026) 🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/studyabroad-conference-lleida/programme
🌍✨ S. López Serrano, J. Borràs & M. Victoria Soulé han escrito el artículo: Abriendo camino a la internacionalización mediante el intercambio virtual en la universidad 💻🤝🎓 https://www.universidadsi.es/abriendo-camino-a-la-internacionalizacion-mediante-el-intercambio-virtual/
📢 CONFERENCE: Learning through mobility 📢 🗣️ Plenary Speaker 2: Martin Howard 🎓study Abroad and Second Language Acquisition: European Contributions 📍 Universitat de Lleida 🗓️ May 18–19 🔗 Register now: https://sites.google.com/view/studyabroad-conference-lleida/home
GLOCALSA i ELFING van participar a les VI jornades La recerca sociolingüística en l’àmbit de la llengua catalana. Llanes i Borràs hi van presentar un projecte sobre competència global a l’estranger, i Sabaté i Llurda un estudi sobre ideologies lingüístiques del professorat d’anglès (ELF).
Des del febrer, la J. Borràs fa una estada de recerca a la Universitat de Trakya (Edirne, Turquia)🌍, on treballa amb els Drs. E. Güvendir i K. Uzun (entre d’altres!) . Ara ja ha passat l’equador d’aquesta experiència, seguiex gaudint molt de l’experiència, Judith! ✨📚✈️
📢 CONFERENCE: Learning through mobility 📢 🗣️ Plenary Speaker 1: N. Tracy-Ventura 🎓The flexible sojourner: personality, adaptation, and language learning during study abroad 📍 Uni. Lleida 🗓️ May 18–19 🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/studyabroad-conference-lleida/home
📢 New open-access publication by CLA member Enric Llurda in World Englishes (Wiley Online Library)! 📝 The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities. 🔓Open Access 🔓Read & share ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/weng.70013
Back together in January for the face-to-face #CLAminari 9 ✨ The session explored #virtual_exchange in university #internationalisation 🌍 and #innovative #immersive environments for developing #disciplinary_literacies in ESP 📚 A great way to start the year! 🚀
Very excited to lead my first PI project which such a wonderful team!!! 😊
Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA)@cla-udl.bsky.social · 10mo ago🌍✨ The INDEST project by the GLOCALSA team is officially underway! Led by Judith Borràs, this project explores international university mobility and how to foster stronger sociocultural integration in host countries 🎓🤝
Next #CLAminari is on 18 Dec at 11:30 and it’s a very special one: CLA turns 30! 🥳 The celebration will start with a toast 🥂 to 3 decades of CLA, followed by talks by E. Llurda, and G. Vázquez, J.M. Cots & À. Llanes. We’ll close with a festive lunch🍽️
2/4 In “Written Skills Development through the #Erasmus Programme”✍️🌍, @judith-borras.bsky.social & Thais Mena discussed the measures that show improvement in writing as a result of a semester of study abroad
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!
📢 Call for Papers open! #Learning through #Mobility: #Linguistic & #Intercultural Insights from #StudyAbroad 🗓️ May 18–19, 2026 📍Universitat de Lleida 🔑 N. Tracy-Ventura & M. Howard. Submit here⬇️
Study Abroad Conference Lleida 2026
May 18th and 19th, 2026 - Lleida (Spain)
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🔥 CLA Hot Topics #5 🔥 “Should generative AI be allowed in language teaching and learning?” 🤖💬 What’s your take? 🤔🗨️ Reply to the thread and share your opinion!
"Les paraules no impediran que caiguin bombes, però ens recorden la nostra humanitat compartida". Amb aquesta reivindicació de la lectura i la literatura començava el seu discurs el nou doctor honoris causa de la UdL, l'escriptor tanzà Abdulrazak Gurnah. www.udl.cat/ca/serveis/o...
Abdulrazak Gurnah o la literatura com a font de coneixement i compromís
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🚨Join us next Thursday, October 16th at 12:00 for the next #CLAminari! 1️⃣ Xavier Martín-Rubio & Laia Lacasa-Cervelló 2️⃣ Alexandra Vraciu 📍Room 1.18, Rectorat, @udl.cat 👉Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyDIaOSNu40WP40dMakqqGWiVUW9HBfryU9cxXeyxdR-xiTA/viewform
🚨New policy brief! Building #Intercultural_Competence & #Global_Citizenship through Mobility Programmes (Co-authored by J. Borràs) ➡️ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394009343_Building_Intercultural_Competence_and_Global_Citizenship_through_Mobility_Programmes#fullTextFileContent
Today at #CLAMINARI we hosted Dr. Zeynep Köylü (Basel Universität) with her talk “Debunking the #StudyAbroad Myth: The Truth About Language Immersion Contexts” 🎓🌍💡 A very engaging and enlightening session! 🙌 Thank you so much, Zeynep, for sharing your expertise💛
🌍📚 New publication alert! “Additional language learning and use in a multilingual study abroad context” by Àngels Llanes ✈️💬 The study examines AL acquisition in a multilingual setting by reporting the development in English, Spanish and Catalan. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103819
The 3rd #ENIS Summer School 🌞📚 was successfully organised with the support of J. Borràs, who also presented one of her latest projects alongside Robert Valls-Figuera 👩💻👨💻 We look forward to learning more about the outcomes of this TRALS project! ✨
🚨Next #CLAMINARI is coming up next week! 🗣️Zeynep Köylü (Basel Universität) 💥Debunking the Study Abroad Myth: The Truth About Language Immersion Contexts 🗓️9 Sept ⏰12h 📍Universitat de Lleida 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGmxvikFbb6cPhwsozcryd_YpD5DcToLN6kAOsIrOCjgkHXQ/viewform?usp=header
🌀 Back in session! Today we held the first online meeting of #CLA to kick off the academic year ✨Great to reconnect after the summer 🌞… many plans in motion, many ideas on the table, and as always, a lot to look forward to together 💡🚀🤝
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
