Francisco Gallardo del Puerto and his research team presented their latest study entitled English vowel identification accuracy and phonetic distance effects in EFL and CLIL schoolchildren at the 42nd International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), held from April 2 to 4 at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) in Palma. The presentation took place on Wednesday, April 2, as part of the Language Acquisition panel—one of the conference’s core thematic strands. This year’s edition of AESLA, held under the motto Transforming Language Acquisition and Communication in a Multilingual and Digitalized World, brought together leading experts […]
The Forum, held on 11th – 13th March, 2025, featured Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, coordinator of the Master’s in Second Language Learning and Teaching, representing the Faculty of Education (UC). He participated as a speaker in the round table discussion on Perspectives for Multilingualism in Educational Centers. A round table discussion featured contributions from Sarah Breslin (ECML), Francisco Gallardo (University of Cantabria), Javier Montero (UAEE, MEFPD), Pilar García (EOI Torrelavega), Mónica García (IES Fuente Fresnedo, Laredo), and Ángel Fernández (CEIP Los Torreones, Cartes). The session was moderated by Azucena Gozalo from the Cantabrian Education Inspection Service. The program is detailed […]
On Thursday and Friday, March 6th & 7th, 2025, LEAL had the pleasure of hosting Professor Mireia Ortega from Universitat de Barcelona for a series of seminars titled Making Sense of Data: An Introduction to Descriptive Statistics in Second Language Learning Research and Exploring Second Language Data: A hands-on Approach to Inferential Statistics.
On Friday, February 28, 2025, LEAL had the pleasure of hosting Professor Cristina Aliaga-García for a seminar titled Introduction to Acoustic Analysis in L2 Speech. Cristina Aliaga-García (Ph.D., Universitat de Barcelona) is a researcher and lecturer in phonetics and second language acquisition at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Barcelona L2 Speech Research Group. Her research focuses on phonetic training methods, including High-Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) and imitation training, as well as the assessment of L2 speech perception and production. She specializes in the acoustic analysis of segmental and suprasegmental features of L2 speech and the role […]
At the I Annual Symposium of the Philology Department, held on January 31st, the Learning English as an Additional Language (LEAL) research group presented its latest projects, highlighting its commitment to advancing bilingual education and phonetic competence research. LEAL members introduced two key projects during the event: The PIEP (PID2020-115327RB-I00) (2021-2025) project aims to provide empirical evidence on: The analyses will be performed from three perspectives: To gather data, researchers administered multiple tasks, including: Data Analysis Teams Four specialized teams within LEAL are conducting the analysis: Future Research and Doctoral Studies LEAL also highlighted ongoing postgraduate research projects: LEAL’s participation […]
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