A Dream Called LSLP - Who We Are

What is the Literacies in Second Languages Project?

The Literacies in Second Languages Project (LSLP) is a research lab currently housed at the School of Education and Pedagogy at UPB, supported by the Educations, Languages, and Learning Environments (EDULAAP) research group. As a research lab, we operate at two levels:

We are a student research lab (semillero de investigación) within UPB, as a place where our undergraduates learn to do research and discover the field of literacy studies, while learning the intricacies of academic discourse.
We are also a professional learning community through research, where our teacher-researchers find ways to do classroom and community-based research, learn about mentoring, and hone their academic discourse competencies.

What kinds of research do we do at LSLP?

At LSLP, our main area of inquiry is the use of alternative literacy paradigms (e.g.. critical literacy, multimodality, new literacies, etc.) in three main areas of inquiry:

Our first area of inquiry aims to describe and understand how second languages help reshape the way people operate in urban and community spaces and how the presence of multiple languages helps us reconfigure our relationships with these cities and communities we inhabit.
Our second area of inquiry deals with how second language users navigate and thrive in digital spaces and cultures (such as gaming) and how they engage with language in creative and innovative ways.
Our final area of inquiry explores how language educators across the P-2o spectrum use and play with literacies theory to develop more engaging classroom practices with their students.

Each of these areas is reflected in our main motto and represented by one of our three teams:

Revisiting Space - #TeamCaL (Community literacies in second language contexts)
Rethinking Language - #TeamLaV (Gaming and digital literacies in second language contexts)
Reinventing Education - #TeamLiLE (Literacies and Language Education)