TRANSLINGUAM-UNI

TRANSLINGUAM-UNI: Transcultural competence in multilingual and multicultural university classrooms with full English-medium instruction. Languages, attitudes, intercultural sensitivity and identity.

The project TRANSLINGUAM-UNI aims to investigate whether multilingual and multicultural undergraduate university classrooms with full English-medium instruction encourage the development of transcultural competence among students, and to what extent. The study of this competence is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective (i.e. educational sociolinguistics, language acquisition, linguistic anthropology and social psychology) and measuring it along four dimensions: (1) linguistic (individual progress in English and translingualism), (2) attitudinal (towards the languages present in the classroom), (3) interculturality (development or not of intercultural sensitivity) and (4) identitary (development or not of a cosmopolitan identity)

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) from 01/01/2019 until 12/31/2022. Completed project, with "very satisfactory" final evaluation of results.