Research Units

This activity deals with the management of financial/administrative and technical/scientific issues and with monitoring of process and product quality.
Process-oriented evaluation assesses activities as they unfold and provides summative assessment, taking into account risk factors. Product-oriented evaluation assesses the correspondence between expected results and achieved goals.

This activity deals with the transcripts of the interactions, and the steps required to turn them into a corpus:
1) annotation, enriching the transcribed texts with contextual metadata on tasks and participants, as well as linguistic information on parts of speech and lemmas;
2) indexing for consultation, producing the corresponding multi-tier and XML format for distribution as a standalone dataset;
3) testing.

This activity deals with the valorisation of the project scientific results concerning the use of DS as tools to practice English by university students, including learners with disability and SLDs.

This activity deals with the survey and assessment of existing DS that can be used as pedagogical tools in an EFL context, with a view to identifying those that can potentially be most inclusive and more easily integrated in EFL teaching.

This activity deals with the experiments involving interactions between learners and DS, their logging and the collection of user perceptions data through post-experiment questionnaires.

This activity deals with the corpus-assisted analysis of potentially exclusionary discourse practices in learner-DS interactions, and of learners' linguistic difficulties and errors that may hamper the interaction.

This activity deals with the draw-up of a plan detailing the subdivision of tasks and responsibilities to ensure that the project's academic and non-academic stakeholders (students, teachers, organisations) are engaged and international team-building activities are performed.