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Multilingual singing: Bringing interculturality into musicolinguistics
Over the last year I have been working with Karen Ludke (Edge Hill University, UK) on a joint project about multilingual singing. This is a new research strand that I will be developing alongside my exisiting research on assignment feedback. … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, informal learning, intercultural, intercultural studies, music, project, public engagement, research, singing, translanguaging
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September 2014 update
As usual, 2013-14 was another busy academic year. Here are a few highlights of my activity: Publications Fernández-Toro, Maria and Hurd, Stella (2014). A model of factors affecting independent learners’ engagement with feedback on language learning tasks. Distance Education, 35(1) … Continue reading
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Tagged article, collaboration, conference, eFeP, event, feedback, music, presentation, research, teaching
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eFeedback project presented at JISC webinar
The eFeP team was invited to hold a webinar as part of the JISC Assessment and Feedback Programme. This event took place on the 1st March and was well attended. It provided Concha Furnborough and myself with an excellent opportunity to share our latest … Continue reading
Collaboration with Stella Hurd
Now that my last article submission is about to be published I can finally resume work on an article provisionally entitled Reacting to feedback on language learning tasks: A model of cognitive and affective engagement in learning contexts, that Stella Hurd and I started … Continue reading
Forthcoming publication
Our article entitled Are the principles of effective feedback transferable across disciplines? A comparative study of written assignment feedback in Languages and Technology (authors: María Fernández-Toro, Mike Truman and Mirabelle Walker) has just been accepted for publication in Assessment and Evaluation … Continue reading
On the media
My host in Asunción, Paraguayan harpist Rito Pedersen, gave me numerous opportunities to make a case for bilingualism on the media. I was interviewed on Juan Pastoriza’s radio programme La noche del folklore (Radio Monumental, 30.07.12) and on the TV programme … Continue reading
Bilingualism in Paraguayan song
This presentation, given at the Universidad Autónoma de Asunción (7th August 2012) was entitled Presencia del guarani en la canción paraguaya and drew on an earlier research project on bilingualism in Paraguayan song that I carried out back in 2005. Although I am … Continue reading
Conference paper
As part of the eFeP project Elena Polisca and I gave a joint paper at the Language Futures: Languages in Higher Education Conference (LLAS Edinburgh, July 2012) entitled Evaluating assignment e-feedback in Higher Education Further details about the project can be found … Continue reading
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María Fernández-Toro 