For the project, we are collecting data from students in university classrooms and other spaces in order to explore language practices, progress in the English language, language attitudes, interculturality, and language-related identity stances. The data we need will be collected in different ways --questionnaires, personal interviews, language tests, audio recordings and observation by the researchers-- inside and right outside your classroom. All the data will be related only to the topics mentioned before. To ensure that you cannot be identified, data will be collected in such a way that that your answers will never be disseminated together with your name. That is why we will never ask you to provide your name in tests, questionnaires or interviews but, instead, you will use an identification code.

This project is totally unrelated to your regular courses. Therefore, you will not be affected in any way if you decide not to participate. If you decide to participate, you should also know that your responses to tests, questionnaires and interviews will never affect your academic grades and will be used anonymously only for academic and educational purposes. So, please, answer as sincerely as possible so that the results of the project can help us reach relevant conclusions that will later be useful for university teachers, deans and administrators to improve multicultural and multilingual classrooms. If you wish, you will also be able to receive feedback on the results of the tests and questionnaires you participate in.

These data are being collected now for the Translinguam-Uni research project and will only be used for this project and in a possible project extension —also led by Mireia Trenchs— that, within the next five years after the completion of the present project, may further investigate the same topics mentioned above. Data will not be used in any research exploring any other topics.

If you have any questions or concerns or if you wish to stop participating in the project, please contact me, Mireia Trenchs, as the project’s lead researcher. You may also contact me in the near future if you wish to be informed about the project results by making an appointment to discuss its results. You may also follow the course of the project and its results at the website https://www.upf.edu/web/translinguam-uni.

Best regards and thank you very much for your time and interest.

Professor Mireia Trenchs Parera ([email protected])

Departament d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra