Ahir en @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social va presentar un estudi que s'emmarca dins per projecte PREVENT-NI

📕Beneficis de la cocreació d’una intervenció
lingüística en català:
Desenvolupament i avaluació de la
implementació de la intervenció Narrativa
MultiModal - Nouvinguts

Avui en @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social ha presentat un estudi de la seva tesi

📕 Impulsant el català a l’educació infantil:
l’eficàcia d’una intervenció narrativa
multimodal amb infants plurilingües

Avui i demà som a les XXIX Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura

An Individualized Multimodal Narrative Intervention for Young Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Early Childhood Education Journal Early Childhood Education Journal - This study examines whether an individualized narrative intervention can boost the narrative (macrostructure and perspective-taking) abilities of children with...

❗️New Open Access paper out

📝 An individualized multimodal narrative intervention for young children with neurodevelopmental disorders

📕 Childhood Education Journal

👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition a...

❗️New chapter

📝 From embodied storytelling to writing: Preliminary effectiveness and acceptability of multimodal narrative training in secondary L2 classrooms

📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton

👥 @ting-yao.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto

🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us was published in Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy on page 115.

❗️New chapter out

📝 Observing versus producing gesture for the learning of L2 sounds: What gesture performance tells us

📕 Gesture in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, De Gruyter Mouton

👥 Xiaotong Xi, @florencebaills.bsky.social, Peng Li and Pilar Prieto

🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...

❗️New paper out

📝 Oral Narrative Interventions in Teaching Second Language Speaking

📕 The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

👥 @ting-yao.bsky.social, Xiaotong Xi and Pilar Prieto

🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/978111878423...

Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders Imitation has been extensively studied in development, with most research examining either verbal/sentence imitation or gesture imitation in isolation…

❗️New paper out (OA)

📝 Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders

📕 Cognitive Development

👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a study on how individual differences moderate L2 narrative succes. A study in collaboration with Joan Carles Mora and Pilar Prieto.

We are in the UR-Ling Workshop 2025! #urling

🎓 Exciting #PhD opportunity!

🗣️🤝 Come work with us on Co-Speech Gestures and Prosody
🌍 Cotutelle between UPF Barcelona & Goethe Uni Frankfurt

All details in the image ⬇️

Please share or reach out if you’re interested! #PhDposition #Linguistics #Gestures #Prosody #Mutimodality

Co-Creation of a Multi-Tiered Narrative Intervention Program for Speech-Language Pathology and Educational Settings Purpose: This study aims to describe how a multi-tiered multimodal narrative intervention program was developed by integrating research and real-...

❗️New paper out

📝 Co-creation of a narrative intervention program for speech–language pathology and educational settings. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

📕 American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Pilar Prieto and Alfonso Igualada

Today is the inaugural event of the @isgscatalonia.bsky.social with a lecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita from University of Warwick on Gesture, language and thought

Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

Today Pamela Urra from Universidad Católica de Chile presented the development, evaluation and optimization of the app "Cuenta Conmigo"

Today @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and @janafolch.bsky.social presented about the cocreation and preliminary assessment of the MultiModal Narrative Newcomer intervention. A study in collaboration with @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Mireia Gómez i Martínez and Pilar Prieto

@saracoegom.bsky.social presented about how preschool children integrate prosody and gesture to convey pragmatic meaning. A study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert and Pilar Prieto

@jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the differences in gesture and speech between child-directed and adult-directed narratives. A study in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto.

@ingridvilag.bsky.social presented about the impact of non-referential gesture production and observation in children's argumentative skills. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain.

We are in the XI Congreso Internacional de Adquisición del Lenguaje (AEAL) y III Congreso de la Asociación Hispanohablante para el Estudio del Trastorno del Lenguaje #AEAL2025 #CHITEL2025!

📕 Child Development

👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury

🔗 srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

❗️New Open Access paper out

📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

❗️New Open Access paper out

📝 Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals: The modality-neutral prosodic framework hypothesis

📕 Gesture

👥 Pilar Prieto, Núria Esteve-Gibert and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

🔗 www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

@ting-yao.bsky.social presented a poster on the effectiveness of a multimodal narrative intervention on L2 narrative skills, a study in collaboration with Trina Spencer and Pilar Prieto

We had two poster presentations!

@ingridvilag.bsky.social had a poster presentation about the influence of observing vs. producing non-referential gestures on children's argumentative abilities, a study in collaboration with Sandra Geladó, Pilar Prieto and Thomas Castelain

@saracoegom.bsky.social has presented a study in collaboration with Núria Esteve-Gibert & Pilar Prieto on the multimodal expression of prominence: how children integrate prosody and gesture in marking focus types

Today Pilar Prieto organized a symposium on multimodal prosody across spoken and sign languages and presented a study in collaboration with Esteve-Gibert & Shattuck-Hufnagel "Multimodal prosody: Towards a modality-neutral conceptualization of prosody that includes spoken, visual and tactile signals"

We are in the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies #ISGS2025!

@jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the impact of character viewpoint gestures in adults. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and @ingridvilag.bsky.social

We are very happy to announce that the Master students that joined our group this academic year Madeleine Dolz Lane and Paolo Frassine have successfully defended their theses.
Congratulations 👏👏

Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica