Our team of Novice Researchers features all the preservice teachers who join LSLP while pursuing their bachelor's degrees. This is the initial stage of research training at LSLP. Here, they learn about qualitative research and literacies while actively participating in the projects form the Community Literacies in L2 (aka #TeamCaL) and Gaming Literacies (aka #TeamLaV) research lines. Through the Novice Researchers, LSLP can continue its collaboration with our university's research education structure.
(NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, all Novice Researchers are pursuing their B.A. in English-Spanish or Spanish-English Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana)
Meet our current Novice Researchers:
(NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, all Novice Researchers are pursuing their B.A. in English-Spanish or Spanish-English Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana)
Meet our current Novice Researchers:
Carlos J.
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Xalcros (The X-Man) joined LSLP in May 2022 as part of #TeamLaV, now working in our current gamification study. Prior to starting his education major, X had a brief stint as an engineering major at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. |
Valentina
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Valentina joined LSLP in 2021 and is part of the #TeamCaL Phase 4 team. In addition to her research duties in Phase 4 of the #TeamCaLproject, she is also pursuing her medical degree at Universidad de Antioquia. Some of her research intersects the links between neuroscience and literacy, a topic that she'll explore in her senior thesis. |
César
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César is one of the most recent members of #TeamCaL, joining LSLP in August 2022. He will be actively involved in the design and fieldwork of our Phase 4 study. |
Maria Juliana
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Maju joined LSLP in the second semester of 2022, now participating as a researcher in Phase 4 and starting to outline her own thesis project, trying to bring together her interests in translanguaging and literacy. |
Mariana
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Mariana joined LSLP at the end of 2022. She's pursuing her BA in Spanish-English Education at UPB and is the latest addition to #TeamCaL. |
Stefany
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Stefany joined LSLP in March 2020. She's part of the research team for Phase 4 of our #TeamCaL research. In addition to her duties in this project, she's interested in exploring the links between Twitter and language learning, a topic she'll develop as part of her senior thesis. |
Andrés
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Apolo joined LSLP in early 2020 as part of #TeamLaV. He recently finished his BA in English-Spanish Education at UPB. He is very interested in exploring the potential of gamification in language learning, an area that #TeamLaV is already inquiring about with great interest. |
Sebas
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Sebas is part of our most recent cadre of new members at LSLP. He joined in August 2022 as part of #TeamLaV, where he will get to use his gaming background as part of our gamification studies. |
Shara
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Shara is pursuing her B.A in English-Spanish Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. She joined LSLP in August 2022 to work with the Phase 4 project at #TeamCaL |
Valentina
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Valentina is pursuing her B.A in English-Spanish Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. She joined LSLP in April 2022 as part of #TeamCaL. |
Daniel
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Dan is pursuing his B.A. in English-Spanish Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. He joined LSLP in the second semester of 2020 and has been actively engaged in Phase 3 of our #TeamCaL study, contributing to our research on comics. |
Jeferson D.
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Jeferson is pursuing his B.A in English-Spanish Education at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. V Jef joined LSLP in May 2022 as part of #TeamLaV. |
Former LSLP Researchers Wall of Fame
Since we began in 2012, we have had the privilege of having very committed researchers. Some of them have left the project due to personal reasons or because they wished to pursue their own research agendas. Regardless of their decisions, their participation in LSLP, whether for a few months or several years, made the #LSLPLegion and our research projects stronger. They will always have our gratitude and appreciation for daring to dream big with us. We can only wish all of them the best of luck on all their current and future academic and personal endeavors. They will always be Legion too!
