ESTADES ARGÓ 2016
Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Germanística
Montse Burgaya
Júlia Gorini
Mary-Ann Johnson

Introduction
• Why did we want to come to the Estades ARGÓ?
• Why did we choose the English Departament?

OVERVIEW
• EFLIC Research Group
• Transcription task assistance
• Mireia’s research
• Attending TFG presentations
• Phonetics course
• Treball de Recerca

EFLIC Research Group
EFLIC is an emerging research group interested in the
acquisition of English as a foreign language in instruction
contexts.
Members:
• Elisabet Pladevall
• Montserrat Capdevila
• Arnau Cunill
• Alexandra Vraciu
• Eloi Puig

Transcription task assistance
• Objective: investigate the English level of Catalan
students.
• In this project some students (Escola d’Alba and INS
Banús) were recorded while they spoke about two
pictures. Now the information/data will be analyzed to
make research on:
• Fluency
• Accuracy
• Complexity
• ...

A transcripted audio
While we were listening to the
audio we had to write what the
students said down.

Production and comprehension data
analysis
• Objective: TWO EXPERIMENTS
i.e. Què diu que farà la Maria? Diu que un pastís.
Translation: She says a cake.
Production
Acceptability
To determine:
a) How brief subordinate replies are translated
b) And how they are understood

Attending TFG presentations
• We attended:
• A vowel comparison of Australian English and RP
• Generic Reference: a Comparison between English and Catalan
Languages
• Portrayal of African American English in Mainstream Media
• Laughter Leading to Madness: The Intertwining of Humor and
Terror in the Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• Technology, Mankind and Dystopia in Well’s The Time Machine

Phonetics course
• Working on our pronounciation using a new methology:
• By miming
• By singing
• By acting
• By repetition
• By talking to each other
• Participants:
• Students from the English department
• Some students from the French department
• Bernadette Stmart (teacher)

Treball de Recerca
• Searching information
• Going to the library to look for bibliography
• Speaking with experts about our TdR

Conclusion
• We learned how to analyze information.
• We learned how to do a better oral presentation by
attending to TFGs.
• We improved on our phonetics.

Thanks for your attention!