Internationalization

Visiting CETAPS from March 2024 to September 2024.
José Jaime Pérez Segura holds a PhD in Education and a Master’s Degree in Research and Innovation in Education. His main line of research delves into the assessment and development of EFL oral and written comprehension through individualized and error-based pedagogical methodologies. He is involved in a research collaboration and mentorship programme, supervised by Dr Sandie Mourão, in the field of early language learning and is participating in a comparative study investigating oral skill development and its assessment in primary English coursebooks.

Visiting CETAPS from 20/03/2023 to 24/03/2023.
Ieva Stončikaitė holds a PhD (2017) in cultural / literary gerontology and English studies. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Her research interests include literary and cultural expressions of ageing, leisure tourism, and travel writing.

Visiting CETAPS from 30 January  to 30 April 2023.
Janire is a PhD student and during her stay at CETAPS she will participate in a seminar with Dr Carolyn Leslie, give a paper at the CETAPS/TEALS Advanced Research Seminar on 9 February 2023, complete some of her thesis and attend Portuguese lessons at ILNova.

Visited CETAPS from 4 October to 3 November 2022.
Karoline Søgaard is an associate lecturer in EFL didactics in teacher education at University College Copenhagen. She is currently a doctoral fellow at University of Copenhagen, and University College Copenhagen. Her thesis focuses on the development of intercultural competence in young learners through picturebooks. Karoline has specialized in the field of teaching English to young learners and was a participant in the project ‘Early foreign language learning and plurilingual education’ (2015-2018). She is co-author of Let’s Get Started (Samfundslitteratur, 2017), a resource book on using picturebooks aimed at lower-primary teachers of English in the Danish primary school system. She gave a workshop on intercultural encounters using the ICEPELL picturebook collection to the MAs in language education on 20 October from 18.00 – 21.00. We are also working together on the development of a set of categories to select diverse picturebooks for English language learning.

Visited CETAPS from 10 – 21 October 2022, but virtually involved in activities for the whole of October.

Mercedes Pérez Agustín is an Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid where she teaches Didactics of English Language to Preschool and Primary teachers. She combines teaching with research on the benefits of picturebooks to teach in preschool and primary in multilingual and multicultural contexts.
She gave a webinar on 19 October at 18.30 on Native Americans in picturebooks. Her visit to CETAPS involved developing a set of teachers’ resources using the ICEPELL template for picturebooks featuring North Americans.

Visited CETAPS from 30 June to 5 July 2022 on a short study stay.

Elisa Bertoldi is a PhD candidate at the University of Udine (Italy). She is a teacher of English as a foreign language in Italian primary schools, a teacher educator for pre-service and in-service courses, and teaching resource developer. She has published articles on technologies applied to language teaching. Her recent research work and publications deal with storytelling in English L2 for language education. She co-authored the book Let’s Tell a Tale. Storytelling with Children in English L2 (Forum, 2019).

Visited CETAPS from September 2021 to February 2022 on a research exchange semester.

David Valente works as a PhD Research Fellow in English Language and Literature Subject Pedagogy at Nord University, Norway, where he teaches on the 5-year master’s degree in Primary Education. David has over 20 years’ experience in ELT as a teacher, teacher educator, academic manager, author and editor. His PhD research explores the affordances of picturebooks for intercultural citizenship and in-depth learning in primary English language education. David is also the Coordinator of the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).