GRAL Research Group
@gralbcn.bsky.social
Grup de Recerca en Adquisició de Llengües / Language Acquisition Research Group based in Barcelona, Spain
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GRAL Research Group
@gralbcn.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky! We are GRAL Research Group based in Barcelona, Spain. GRAL stands for: Grup de Recerca en Adquisició de Llengües / Language Acquisition Research Group. Founded in 1995 by Dr. Carme Muñoz, we focus our research on second and foreign language acquisition. 📚🔗https://ubgral.wordpress.com/
Can we predict how well kids learn new words? 🧠📝
As we continue sharing our 2025 highlights, we’re diving into the world of aptitude in young learners.
Carmen Muñoz and Ariane Ruiz de Apodaca examined 95 students aged 10–12 to see what best predicts their success in learning new vocabulary.
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As we continue sharing our 2025 highlights, we’re diving into the world of aptitude in young learners.
Carmen Muñoz and Ariane Ruiz de Apodaca examined 95 students aged 10–12 to see what best predicts their success in learning new vocabulary.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Can we predict how well kids learn new words? 🧠📝
As we continue sharing our 2025 highlights, we’re diving into the world of aptitude in young learners.
Carmen Muñoz and Ariane Ruiz de Apodaca examined 95 students aged 10–12 to see what best predicts their success in learning new vocabulary.
🧵🧵🧵
As we continue sharing our 2025 highlights, we’re diving into the world of aptitude in young learners.
Carmen Muñoz and Ariane Ruiz de Apodaca examined 95 students aged 10–12 to see what best predicts their success in learning new vocabulary.
🧵🧵🧵
New Release Alert
Gaming for Literacy: Fun vs. Effectiveness? 🎮📝
Does enjoying a game actually lead to better learning? Matthew Pattemore and Roger Gilabert investigated 125 young EFL learners playing literacy minigames to find out.
🔗full paper: doi.org/10.1093/elt/...
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Gaming for Literacy: Fun vs. Effectiveness? 🎮📝
Does enjoying a game actually lead to better learning? Matthew Pattemore and Roger Gilabert investigated 125 young EFL learners playing literacy minigames to find out.
🔗full paper: doi.org/10.1093/elt/...
thread🧵
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
New Release Alert
Gaming for Literacy: Fun vs. Effectiveness? 🎮📝
Does enjoying a game actually lead to better learning? Matthew Pattemore and Roger Gilabert investigated 125 young EFL learners playing literacy minigames to find out.
🔗full paper: doi.org/10.1093/elt/...
thread🧵
Gaming for Literacy: Fun vs. Effectiveness? 🎮📝
Does enjoying a game actually lead to better learning? Matthew Pattemore and Roger Gilabert investigated 125 young EFL learners playing literacy minigames to find out.
🔗full paper: doi.org/10.1093/elt/...
thread🧵
✨ New year, new look: same GRAL! ✨
We hope you all had a wonderful break 💜
We’re kicking things off with the first article of the year👇
🔍 Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing?
✍️ Geòrgia Pujadas & Stuart Webb (2025)
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We hope you all had a wonderful break 💜
We’re kicking things off with the first article of the year👇
🔍 Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing?
✍️ Geòrgia Pujadas & Stuart Webb (2025)
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January 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
✨ New year, new look: same GRAL! ✨
We hope you all had a wonderful break 💜
We’re kicking things off with the first article of the year👇
🔍 Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing?
✍️ Geòrgia Pujadas & Stuart Webb (2025)
🧵🧵
We hope you all had a wonderful break 💜
We’re kicking things off with the first article of the year👇
🔍 Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing?
✍️ Geòrgia Pujadas & Stuart Webb (2025)
🧵🧵
🎄✨ Happy holidays from GRAL! ✨🎄
Last Friday we held our last GRAL meeting of the year, where we shared updates on our ongoing projects in Second Language Acquisition, covering areas such as task-based learning (TaskGen app), CLIL, reading, phonetics and audiovisual input.
Last Friday we held our last GRAL meeting of the year, where we shared updates on our ongoing projects in Second Language Acquisition, covering areas such as task-based learning (TaskGen app), CLIL, reading, phonetics and audiovisual input.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🎄✨ Happy holidays from GRAL! ✨🎄
Last Friday we held our last GRAL meeting of the year, where we shared updates on our ongoing projects in Second Language Acquisition, covering areas such as task-based learning (TaskGen app), CLIL, reading, phonetics and audiovisual input.
Last Friday we held our last GRAL meeting of the year, where we shared updates on our ongoing projects in Second Language Acquisition, covering areas such as task-based learning (TaskGen app), CLIL, reading, phonetics and audiovisual input.
🎇 Flashback to a year ago when Dr. Sal Consoli from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social came to @ub.edu to give a speech entitled "Reflexivity as Social Practice: Humanizing Applied Linguistics" to professors, MA students, and PhD students of @gralbcn.bsky.social 👏
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🎇 Flashback to a year ago when Dr. Sal Consoli from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social came to @ub.edu to give a speech entitled "Reflexivity as Social Practice: Humanizing Applied Linguistics" to professors, MA students, and PhD students of @gralbcn.bsky.social 👏
🎉 The GRAL Research Group celebrates 30 years!
📅 On September 26th, the Language Acquisition Research Group (GRAL) of @ub.edu celebrated its thirtieth anniversary together with former members and closest collaborators.
📅 On September 26th, the Language Acquisition Research Group (GRAL) of @ub.edu celebrated its thirtieth anniversary together with former members and closest collaborators.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🎉 The GRAL Research Group celebrates 30 years!
📅 On September 26th, the Language Acquisition Research Group (GRAL) of @ub.edu celebrated its thirtieth anniversary together with former members and closest collaborators.
📅 On September 26th, the Language Acquisition Research Group (GRAL) of @ub.edu celebrated its thirtieth anniversary together with former members and closest collaborators.
🎉 GRAL started the academic year strong with a PhD dissertation defense by Gisela Sosa-López entitled "The Role of L2 Speaking Anxiety in L2 Speaking Fluency, Pronunciation Accuracy and Comprehensibility in Instructed English" supervised by Juan C. Mora Bonilla (@ub.edu).
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎉 GRAL started the academic year strong with a PhD dissertation defense by Gisela Sosa-López entitled "The Role of L2 Speaking Anxiety in L2 Speaking Fluency, Pronunciation Accuracy and Comprehensibility in Instructed English" supervised by Juan C. Mora Bonilla (@ub.edu).
At the end of June, @gralbcn.bsky.social was at the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: "Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts" at the @ull.es in Tenerife, Spain.
@itapassociation.bsky.social
@itapassociation.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
At the end of June, @gralbcn.bsky.social was at the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: "Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts" at the @ull.es in Tenerife, Spain.
@itapassociation.bsky.social
@itapassociation.bsky.social
Last week @gralbcn.bsky.social was in Tromsø, Norway at UiT the Arctic University of Norway for EuroSLA34, whose current president is GRAL's very own Roger Gilabert.
🔗 Link to conference website: en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
🔗 Link to conference website: en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
EuroSLA 34 | UiT
University of Tromsø The Arctic University of Norway offers around 30 English-taught Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programmes. Many of the science programmes offer different specializations.
en.uit.no
July 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Last week @gralbcn.bsky.social was in Tromsø, Norway at UiT the Arctic University of Norway for EuroSLA34, whose current president is GRAL's very own Roger Gilabert.
🔗 Link to conference website: en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
🔗 Link to conference website: en.uit.no/tavla/artikk...
GRAL is at EuroSLA 34! 😍
Stay tuned for more information about contributions from Joan Carles Mora, Paulina Olender, Georgia Pujades, Carmen Muñoz, Roger Gilabert, Elsa Tragant, and Katherine Fraser.
Stay tuned for more information about contributions from Joan Carles Mora, Paulina Olender, Georgia Pujades, Carmen Muñoz, Roger Gilabert, Elsa Tragant, and Katherine Fraser.
June 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
GRAL is at EuroSLA 34! 😍
Stay tuned for more information about contributions from Joan Carles Mora, Paulina Olender, Georgia Pujades, Carmen Muñoz, Roger Gilabert, Elsa Tragant, and Katherine Fraser.
Stay tuned for more information about contributions from Joan Carles Mora, Paulina Olender, Georgia Pujades, Carmen Muñoz, Roger Gilabert, Elsa Tragant, and Katherine Fraser.
GRAL member and PhD candidate Bridget Murphy presents some of her doctoral dissertation at Day 2 of @itapassociation.bsky.social 's annual conference. 👏
June 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
GRAL member and PhD candidate Bridget Murphy presents some of her doctoral dissertation at Day 2 of @itapassociation.bsky.social 's annual conference. 👏
Day 1 of the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts at @ull.es 👏
@gralbcn.bsky.social member and @itapassociation.bsky.social president Júlia Barón presents her work with colleagues below 👇
🔗 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
@gralbcn.bsky.social member and @itapassociation.bsky.social president Júlia Barón presents her work with colleagues below 👇
🔗 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
June 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Day 1 of the ITAP Annual Conference 2025: Resources for L2 pragmatics teaching across instructional contexts at @ull.es 👏
@gralbcn.bsky.social member and @itapassociation.bsky.social president Júlia Barón presents her work with colleagues below 👇
🔗 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
@gralbcn.bsky.social member and @itapassociation.bsky.social president Júlia Barón presents her work with colleagues below 👇
🔗 www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
🗣 At the beginning of June, PhD candidate Bridget Murphy and her supervisor Elsa Tragant from @ub.edu presented at the 2nd International Conference on Written Corrective Feedback in L1 and L2 (WCF25) at the @uab.cat 👏
🔗Link to conference website: sites.google.com/view/wcf25
🔗Link to conference website: sites.google.com/view/wcf25
June 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🗣 At the beginning of June, PhD candidate Bridget Murphy and her supervisor Elsa Tragant from @ub.edu presented at the 2nd International Conference on Written Corrective Feedback in L1 and L2 (WCF25) at the @uab.cat 👏
🔗Link to conference website: sites.google.com/view/wcf25
🔗Link to conference website: sites.google.com/view/wcf25
GRAL was at the BAAL Vocabulary SIG Annual Conference 2025 at the @morayhouse.bsky.social at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! 🗣 Dr. Imma Miralpeix gave a plenary speech and two of her PhD students, Paulina Olender (PhD award winner) and Andrea Nardon, also presented. 🎉
🔗 baalvocabsig.wordpress.com
🔗 baalvocabsig.wordpress.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
GRAL was at the BAAL Vocabulary SIG Annual Conference 2025 at the @morayhouse.bsky.social at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! 🗣 Dr. Imma Miralpeix gave a plenary speech and two of her PhD students, Paulina Olender (PhD award winner) and Andrea Nardon, also presented. 🎉
🔗 baalvocabsig.wordpress.com
🔗 baalvocabsig.wordpress.com
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Happy Sunday!
Today is June 1st, and the ITAP Conference 2025 is only 25 days away!
We have reached 200 registered participants from 40 countries around the world. Can you spot yours?
You can find all the info here: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
Today is June 1st, and the ITAP Conference 2025 is only 25 days away!
We have reached 200 registered participants from 40 countries around the world. Can you spot yours?
You can find all the info here: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Happy Sunday!
Today is June 1st, and the ITAP Conference 2025 is only 25 days away!
We have reached 200 registered participants from 40 countries around the world. Can you spot yours?
You can find all the info here: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
Today is June 1st, and the ITAP Conference 2025 is only 25 days away!
We have reached 200 registered participants from 40 countries around the world. Can you spot yours?
You can find all the info here: www.ub.edu/itap-associa...
📍 Last week we spent several wonderful days in Murcia, Spain at the L2 Writing Research Seminar (L2WR 2025), "L2 Writing and Feedback Research: SLA and Multimodality Perspectives," organized by the L2 writing research group led by Dr. Rosa Manchón of the @um.es 👏.
www.l2wrseminar.com
www.l2wrseminar.com
L2 Writing Research Seminar 2025 - MURCIA
www.l2wrseminar.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
📍 Last week we spent several wonderful days in Murcia, Spain at the L2 Writing Research Seminar (L2WR 2025), "L2 Writing and Feedback Research: SLA and Multimodality Perspectives," organized by the L2 writing research group led by Dr. Rosa Manchón of the @um.es 👏.
www.l2wrseminar.com
www.l2wrseminar.com
As part of the Talking About Languages interview series by Rosa Alonso (Universidad de Vigo), our founder Carmen Muñoz discussed the age factor in language learning, the Critical Period Hypothesis, and key findings from the BAF project. Check out her interview here:
🔗 tv.uvigo.es/video/67c833...
🔗 tv.uvigo.es/video/67c833...
The age factor
This interview with Carmen Muñoz focuses on common misconceptions about the age factor, such as the myth that children are like sponges or the belief that the younger you learn a second language the better.
tv.uvigo.es
May 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
As part of the Talking About Languages interview series by Rosa Alonso (Universidad de Vigo), our founder Carmen Muñoz discussed the age factor in language learning, the Critical Period Hypothesis, and key findings from the BAF project. Check out her interview here:
🔗 tv.uvigo.es/video/67c833...
🔗 tv.uvigo.es/video/67c833...
Rebeca Finger-Bou (@aryanger.bsky.social), @gralbcn.bsky.social
member and secretary of the PhD Student Council (@doctorandsub.bsky.social) at the @ub.edu, speaks at the III PhD Research and Science Communication Conference held today in the historic building of the university. 👏
member and secretary of the PhD Student Council (@doctorandsub.bsky.social) at the @ub.edu, speaks at the III PhD Research and Science Communication Conference held today in the historic building of the university. 👏
May 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Rebeca Finger-Bou (@aryanger.bsky.social), @gralbcn.bsky.social
member and secretary of the PhD Student Council (@doctorandsub.bsky.social) at the @ub.edu, speaks at the III PhD Research and Science Communication Conference held today in the historic building of the university. 👏
member and secretary of the PhD Student Council (@doctorandsub.bsky.social) at the @ub.edu, speaks at the III PhD Research and Science Communication Conference held today in the historic building of the university. 👏
The Barcelona L2 Speech Research Group, many of whom are @gralbcn.bsky.social members and collaborators, spent a week at New Sounds 2025, the 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, at the @uoft.bsky.social 👏
newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca
newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca
May 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Barcelona L2 Speech Research Group, many of whom are @gralbcn.bsky.social members and collaborators, spent a week at New Sounds 2025, the 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, at the @uoft.bsky.social 👏
newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca
newsounds2025.artsci.utoronto.ca
A list of @gralbcn.bsky.social presentations from @aesla2025.bsky.social! We had a great few days of presentations and discussions in Palma de Mallorca, Spain at the @uib.cat👏
@aesla.bsky.social
aesla.uib.eu
@aesla.bsky.social
aesla.uib.eu
May 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A list of @gralbcn.bsky.social presentations from @aesla2025.bsky.social! We had a great few days of presentations and discussions in Palma de Mallorca, Spain at the @uib.cat👏
@aesla.bsky.social
aesla.uib.eu
@aesla.bsky.social
aesla.uib.eu
Highlights from @unigroningen.bsky.social at the TBLT Conference! 📸 @gralbcn.bsky.social members & collaborators: Vera Trager (UB), Matthew Pattemore (UG), Roger Gilabert (UB), Juan Castellvi Vives (UB), Mayya Levkina (UB), Gina Arnold (UIC), Kerry Brennan (UOC), & Aleksandra Malicka (UOC)
#tblt2025
#tblt2025
April 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Highlights from @unigroningen.bsky.social at the TBLT Conference! 📸 @gralbcn.bsky.social members & collaborators: Vera Trager (UB), Matthew Pattemore (UG), Roger Gilabert (UB), Juan Castellvi Vives (UB), Mayya Levkina (UB), Gina Arnold (UIC), Kerry Brennan (UOC), & Aleksandra Malicka (UOC)
#tblt2025
#tblt2025
GRAL members at @aesla2025.bsky.social ! A wonderful few days in Mallorca at la Universitat de les Illes Balears. 😁
April 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
GRAL members at @aesla2025.bsky.social ! A wonderful few days in Mallorca at la Universitat de les Illes Balears. 😁
Opening ceremony: Day 1 at @aesla2025.bsky.social 😁
April 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Opening ceremony: Day 1 at @aesla2025.bsky.social 😁
📣 Check out the latest #openaccess article from Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu and @uab.cat) and Javier Marín (@um.es) in the Journal of Writing Research: "Linguistic and behavioral alignment in writing: A scoping review." 👏
🔗 Find the article here: doi.org/10.17239/jow...
🔗 Find the article here: doi.org/10.17239/jow...
March 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📣 Check out the latest #openaccess article from Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu and @uab.cat) and Javier Marín (@um.es) in the Journal of Writing Research: "Linguistic and behavioral alignment in writing: A scoping review." 👏
🔗 Find the article here: doi.org/10.17239/jow...
🔗 Find the article here: doi.org/10.17239/jow...
📑 An #openaccess article for your rainy Wednesday reading, "Working memory, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Independent and interactive effects on L2 written performance," in Studies in Second Language Acquisition by Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu & @uab.cat) & colleagues 👏
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📑 An #openaccess article for your rainy Wednesday reading, "Working memory, L2 proficiency, and task complexity: Independent and interactive effects on L2 written performance," in Studies in Second Language Acquisition by Olena Vasylets (@ub.edu & @uab.cat) & colleagues 👏
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S027...