evidence-based language education

evidence-based language education

Positioning and Information (PI): the form and substance of analytical texts in secondary and higher education

REDICE18-1920, PI: Elisa Rosado

The project has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, we aim to describe the main problems, in terms of content and form, in the analytical texts of secondary and higher education students; on the other hand, we want to make it easier for teachers at these educational levels to eva...

Discourse comprehension & text quality: the role of connectivity in the processing of analytical texts (CCCP)

PID2020-119555GA-I00, PI: Melina Aparici

Written language proficiency, key to academic and professional success, constitutes a developmental milestone that implies the combination of two fundamental abilities: reading comprehension and written text production. Moreover, when we read a text, we inevitably judge and evalu...

Connecting People for a Europe of Diversities (HOSTIS-HOSPES)

776228-Hostis-Hospes, PI: Melina Aparici

The project intends to document the intercultural practices of schools enrolling foreign students, aiming to assess the strengths and weaknesses. The proposed action will support the positive role played by the educational formal and non-formal agencies and communities through fi...

From Assessment of Quality to Scaffolding (FAQTS)

PID2019-108791GA-I00, PI: Naymé Salas

Writing competence is one of the most pressing challenges in education in Spain and Europe. Despite its vital importance, however, writing development research has proceeded for decades with some of its core tenets being, for the most part, undefined. For example, the very essenc...

Teaching innovation project: Healthcare practices: creation of an online videoconference bank for the Speech Therapy degree

N/A, PI: Melina Aparici

A didactic resource is proposed to improve the quality of the learning and education process of content and competencies related to speech therapy practice, complementing face-to-face practice with virtual training.

Based on the experience acquired in the organisation of the *I...

Learning, Teaching and Learning to Teach in Greek as Foreign/Second Language: Evidence from different learning contexts (LETEGR2)

1656, PI: Maria Andria

The purpose of the LETEGR2 research project (2018-2022) was to shed light on the way Greek is learned and taught in different learning contexts (second and foreign language context), as well as to identify good teaching practices that could potentially facilitate the teaching...

Now, writing! Improving written expression to guarantee equality across students

2015ACUP 00175, PI: Naymé Salas

The goal of the project was to make a positive impact on the current written composition performance of students at compulsory-education levels attending schools in disadvantaged areas. The underlying assumption was that written composition is part of students’ basic competenci...

University SocioCultural Network for Education and Rehabilitation in Prison (RiUscire)

2014-1-IT02-KA204-003517, PI: Marilisa Birello

RiUscire intends to exploit the multilingual and intercultural dimension of the prison context in order to transform it into a place of resources and re-education through integrated actions of training courses addressed to foreign prisoners, prison staff and teachers working in t...

Teaching innovation project: Improving the scientific training of Primary Education students

N/A , PI: Naymé Salas

The teaching of written language in our context is the victim of numerous misunderstandings about its development and learning. This often results in classroom teaching not being based on current theories about how we learn to read and write. The results in written expression oft...

Teaching innovation project: Virtual language sample analysis program with formative feedback

N/A, PI: Melina Aparici

This proposal aims to create a didactic resource for several subjects of the Speech Therapy Degree. Specifically, this resource will allow students to autonomously analyse speech and writing samples based on different analytical criteria (phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, spellin...

We want to be scientists! STEM project with a gender perspective

FCT-20-15569, PI: Anna Cros

The aim of the project "We want to be scientists! STEM project with a gender perspective" is to contribute to the scientific education of schoolchildren in the fifth and sixth years of primary school and the first cycle of ESO, to promote literacy and knowledge transfer, the gene...