Investigació

Últimes publicacions

Alcón, E. (2017). Pragmatic Development During Study Abroad: An Analysis of Spanish Teenagers’ Request Strategies in English Emails. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 37, 77-92.
Alcón, E. & Esteve, F. (2017). La importancia de la evaluación docente. Cuadernos de Pedagogía, 476, 67-70.
García Mayo, M. P & Alcón, E. (2016). Eliciting oral interaction data in EFL settings. In A. Mackey & E. Marsden (Eds.), Advancing Methodology and Practice: IRIS, the Repository of Instruments for Research into Second Languages. Routledge.
Alcón, E. (2015). Teachers’ perceptions of email requests: insights for teaching pragmatics in study abroad contexts. In Gesuato S., Bianchi F., Cheng W. (eds.), Teaching, learning and investigating pragmatics: principles, methods and practices. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Alcón, E. (2015). Instruction and pragmatic change during study abroad email communication. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 9 (1).
Alcón, E. (2015). Pragmatic learning and study abroad: Effects of instruction and length of stay. System, 48, 62-74.
Alcón, E. (2013). Pragmatic variation in British and international English language users’ E-mail communication: A focus on requests. Revista Espanola de Linguistica Aplicada, 26, 25-44.
Alcón, E. (2013). Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation. Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 32(6). https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2013-0037

Publicacions anteriors

Grup d'Investigació LAELA

Coordinadora del Grup LAELA

http://gruplaela.uji.es/

International Association of Multilingualism

Pilar Safont elected vice-president of the International Association of Multilingualism. In elections held at the 10th international conference on multilingualism and third language acquisition which took place at the University of Vienna at the beginning of September, Dr. Safont was elected vice-president of the International Association of Multilingualism. Dr. Safont has held the position of secretary of the association since 2014. She will be working alongside new president, Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele, to further increase the international presitge and visibility of the association.

Espai Menut

Researchers from LAELA are collaborating with the online magazine Espai Menut to produce informational articles aimed at parents which explain aspects related to early language development and learning English as an L3. The articles are published in Spanish and Catalan.

Santander Prize for LAELA

The LAELA Research Group were awarded the Santander Bank’s prize for scientific outreach. The prize was awarded on the grounds of ‘capacity to communicate scientific content’ and the ‘value of the research to the wider society’. The photograph shows group leader, Dr. Eva Alcón, accepting the award.

Línies d'investigació

Provide teaching professionals

To provide teaching professionals with an excellent background in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching/Acquisition.

Methodological issues

To deal with those methodological issues through the process of learning/teaching the English Language in multilingual contexts.

Communicative competence

To analyse the development of the communicative competence in English language learners, with a special focus on pragmatic competence.

Effect of different variables

To investigate the effect of different particular variables on English language acquisition, such as, bilingualism, motivation, gender, instructional context, and so on.

Últims Projectes d'I+D+i

Análisis sociopragmático de la comprensión y producción oral y escrita en inglés como L3. El efecto de nuevos contextos de instrucción en el desarrollo de lenguaje académico desde la infancia. Convocatoria de proyectos de I+D Universitat Jaume I. 2016-2018.
La adquisición del lenguaje en un contexto de inglés como tercera lengua: análisis del input y la instrucción pragmática en las distintas etapas educativas. Ministerio de Educación y Competitividad. 2013-2016.

El desarrollo de la competencia pragmática en aprendices precoces de inglés como tercera lengua. Un análisis sobre el papel del discurso generado en el aula. Proyectos de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico. 2012-2014.
La negociación de la exhortación y el desarrollo de la competencia pragmática en contextos formales de aprendizaje de la lengua inglesa. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. 2009-2011.