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” 🎓🤝✨

E. Arnó, M. Aguilar & J. Calvet visited Politecnico di Torino from 9–12 February 2026 for the XIII Unite! Dialogue 🇪🇺 Strategic discussions focused on shaping the future of the alliance🚀🤝✨

📘 New publication! Congrats to Alexandra Vraciu and Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester on their book chapter “Fluency in Task-Based Peer Interaction” ✨ They explore how pre-task instruction supports fluency and oral interaction among primary school EFL learners! 🗣️🌍 🔗 https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.32657626.9

📚✨ Congrats to Anca Daniela Frumuselu and Marni Manegre on their new book chapter on how #COIL boosts FL skills, peer #interaction & #intercultural competence 🌍💬👏 🔗 https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.32657626.14

📢 New chapter by Diert‑Boté & Moncada‑Comas: Navigating the Emotional Landscape of an ESP Lecturer: Stories of #Vulnerability and #Resilience in the Implementation of a #Digital_Genre 💻💬#EnglishforSpecificPurposes  ➡️https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-3159-2

📢 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

@irati-db.bsky.social has been enjoying her one-month research stay at the University of Málaga, kindly hosted by Inma Pineda ☀️📚 They claim they’ve been working very hard on exciting research together, but... should we really believe them? 🤨🌴😂 Data analysis or tapas analysis? 🍻

🌍 Nuevo artículo de divulgación del proyecto #GLOCALSA! 📝 “Más allá del inglés: cómo potenciar la diversidad lingüística europea a través del Erasmus” por G. Vázquez y JM Cots ya está publicado en The Conversation 🔗https://doi.org/10.64628/AAO.xveemfrap

Save the date! 📢 🗓 30 Jan 2026 ⏰ 12:00 (Barcelona) | 19:00 (Hong Kong) 💻 Online: Dismantling native-speakerism in ELT 🔗 Join via Zoom:  https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99201994359?pwd=iKq44n1AvAHn3yXv6KICcOLIHghMuD.1 📩 Register: [email protected]

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).

📰 Nueva publicación sobre cómo los medios abordan la política: Nuestra compañera del #CLA G. Vázquez junto a E. Comelles han publicado el artículo “Estudio comparativo del tratamiento de noticias sobre política ‘cotidiana’ en la prensa española” 🔍📚 ➡️ https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.92119

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! 🚀

🔥 #CLA Hot Topic #7 🔥  🧪💻 Els de ciències i tecnologia necessiten saber solament contingut tècnic i com comuniquen aquest contingut és el de menys? 💬 Hi estàs d’acord? Quina importància té la comunicació en l’àmbit científic i tecnològic? 👉 Comparteix la teva opinió!

#CLAminari 9 📅20 Jan 2026  🕐12h  📍2.25 - Seminari DELILE 🎙️SI on Global Perspectives on #Virtual_Exchange for University Internationalisation 🎙️IMMER-LIT: Developing disciplinary literacies through immersive environments in #EnglishforSpecificPurposes 🔗https://shorturl.at/UcVDK

📢 La UdL és una de les 8 universitats de l’Estat on les dones lideren la producció científica. 💪Orgull de comptar amb el lideratge de M. Sabaté-Dalmau pel #CLA  📰 SEGRE➡️https://www.segre.com/ca/lleida/260110/udl-les-vuit-universitats-les-dones-lideren-produccio-cientifica_1073311.html

🌍✨ 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 🎓🤝

✨ #CLA is back after the winter break! ✨Wer're back with new publications, conferences, events, and so much more. Stay tuned, exciting things are coming! 📚🎤 Let’s make 2026 inspiring! ✨

🎄✨ Happy Holidays from #CLA! ✨🎄Thank you for being part of our community. Wishing you joy and rest during the holidays, and inspiration for the exciting year ahead when we come back! 🎉

Happy holidays from #CLA 🎄🎅🎇

Now it's time for J.M. Cots, A. Llanes & G. G. Vázquez's presentation ➡️ A failed bilingual experience? The place of #English and #local_languages in a #study_abroad experience in European non-English-speaking countries

Now it's time to focus... Enric Llurda presenting at #CLAMINARI8 his new edited book ➡️Dismantling the #nativespeaker construct in #English language teaching 👏

What a joy to be part of the #CLA team!🥳🥂🎅

Celebrating 🎂3⃣0⃣

🎉✨ Today we celebrate 30 years of #CLA! ✨🎉 Three decades of research, collaboration, and passion for language at the Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada 🗣️📚 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey, here’s to many more years ahead! 🥂🎂

🔥 CLA Hot Topic #3 🔥 What kind of feedback and assessment really benefits our students? 🤔📚 Join the conversation on X and share your thoughts! 👉

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🍽️

🚀 Discover the IMPROVE Project (funded by the T.I.M.E)!  🔗Project website: https://sites.google.com/upc.edu/improve-timeproject/ If you belong to a T.I.M.E university and teach BIPs or COIL, please participate in our survey!  Great work, @ArnoElisabet, Mart & team (Balbina, Bjorn, Katrin & Karen)! 🎉

The proceedings of EPI8 are now available in open access: 🔗 hal.science/hal-05309539 The volume includes a contribution by Xavier Martin-Rubió titled🗣️ "Fluency in spontaneous description versus story-reading: Learner performance and views"

📢 El 4/12 a les 18h, @socs.iec.cat celebra “Sinergies de recerca VI”. @enricllurda.bsky.social  presentarà “Evolució de les ideologies lingüístiques en la formació del futur professorat d’anglès des d’una perspectiva ELF” (Elfing project). 🔗 + info: https://goo.su/bBQbd

📢 GLOCALSA project has released two datasets in the @udl.cat repository: 🔹 IT Infrastructure: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34810/data2628 🔹 Question Set: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34810/data2679 ➕info in the “Description” field

🎉 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! 🤝

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

🎤 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!🌟

Several members of the CLA presented at #AEDEAN25 ( @aedeaninfo.bsky.social) at UPV-EHU! Their research explored #language_learning, #study_abroad, and #critical_reflection in pre-service English language teachers. Here’s a quick thread 🧵⬇️

🔥 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!

🌏 Àngels Llanes was invited to the 🎓 23rd Conference on International Exchange of Professionals (Shanghai) and the🏛️ Global Alliance of Foreign Studies Universities (Hangzhou) to share how learners acquire multiple foreign languages while studying abroad in multilingual environments💬

1/4 @enricllurda.bsky.social presented at “#Multilingual Pedagogies and Inclusive Practices in #Language Teaching and Learning” conference (Nicosia, Cyprus) a study on challenging #monolingual and #native-speakerist orientations in an MA in English language teaching in Catalonia🎓🌍✍️

💻🌍 Vols descobrir com la cultura influeix en la manera com interactuem amb la tecnologia? No et perdis el webinar “El factor cultural en la interacció persona-ordinador” amb el Dr. Sergio Sayago (@udl.cat) 🗓️ 11 de novembre de 2025 🕖 19:00–20:00 ❗️ Inscripció gratuïta

🎬@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💻

📢 CFP! The research group ATLAS (@@uneduniv.bsky.social) announces the CFP for the International Conference TISLID26 – Research and Language Education in Fluid Times: The Rise of Adaptive Competences 🌍 https://multiweb.uned.es/w45989/home 📅 April 22–24, 2026 | Úbeda (Spain) 📝 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

We’re happy for Marta Aguilar and Elisabet Arnó, who today had the kick-off meeting for their new project: Developing #Disciplinary_Literacies through #Immersive Environments in #English for Specific Purposes (IMMER-LIT)📚🖥️ Exciting times ahead for this amazing team! 🤝🌐

📢🎉 Big news! @isgscatalonia.bsky.social is here — the new hub of the International Society of #Gesture Studies in Catalonia! 👏 Huge congrats to @florencebaills.bsky.social#Gestureon joining the committee with colleagues from 4 other universities. 🌍 Open to all researchers and students!

Ahir vam tenir el plaer d’escoltar la Nuria Gómez Belart en la xerrada “Llenguatge clar en entorns digitals: Estratègies per optimitzar la comunicació institucional amb la ciutadania”, organitzada pel Màster en Llengua i Comunicació Digital de la @udl.cat 💬✨

📢 New publication alert! 🎉 G. Mancho-Barés, S. Khan & A. Vraciu just released the chapter ✨ A #plurilingual #genre-based approach to #academicwriting: Guidelines for disciplinary-oriented #teachertraining in #HE 📚

🔍 New chapter! #Native_speakerism in #Catalan private #language_schools: Recruiters’ perspectives by J. Calvet-Terré & E. Llurda ➡️ Recruiters still favor native speakers 🤔 🔗 https://surl.li/wioeff

📢 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

🎓 Today we celebrated the 6th #Claminari! 🌟 with 2 inspiring talks: 🔹Xavier Martin & Laia Lacasa explored the challenges and possibilities of adopting a #translanguaging approach in high school 🗣️  🔹Alexandra Vraciu shared insights on #peer_observation in #ELT 👀  So thought-provoking! 💬✨

🚨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

📢 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⬇️

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!