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...

❗️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...

🎙️ 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” 🎓🤝✨

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🎉 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! 🤝

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🎬@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

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🎓💡 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...

📢 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...

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/...

📢 #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

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

🔥 CLA Hot Topics #3 🔥 “I speak English with a Catalan accent. Is that a problem?” 🤔 What’s your view? 🗨️ Reply to the thread and share your perspective!

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍 (website coming soon!)

🌍📚 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

Roles of Domain‐General Auditory Processing in Second Language Speech Learning Revisited: What Degree of Precision Makes a Difference? - Saito - 2025 - Language Learning - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Hoy hemos tenido un panel de integración de la #pronunciaciónELE en el #CILG2025. Ha sido coordinado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi 👇

📸✨ 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 🙌💡 💬📚🤝

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!

🌟 #CLA team🌟 Together we collaborate and grow in the field of #Applied_Linguistics! 🌍📚✨