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Joel Espejo-Álvarez

@joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social
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Predoctoral researcher at GrepG, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Interested in multilingualism, language acquisition, teaching and learning

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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Yesterday @ingridvilag.bsky.social, @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and @janafolch.bsky.social shared the completed and ongoing educational research projects of the GrEPG research gropu to local education professionals in RECERCAULA. Thank you for everyone who joined!
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
❗️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 🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1116
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎓 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
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Comparative Minds Research Group @comparative-minds.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
❗️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...
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Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals | John Benjamins
Abstract Prosody influences speech organization by signaling phrasal prominence, grouping patterns, and speakers’ pragmatic intentions. While traditionally viewed as restricted to speech, research sho...
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
❗️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
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Today @juliafloritpons.bsky.social presented the Multimodal Narrative Intervention in the II Jornada d'Educació Lingüística Basada en l'Evidència Científica
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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Now it is our turn! @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, @ting-yao.bsky.social, @joel-espejoalvarez.bsky.social and Jana Folch-Claramunt are presentating about the different versions of the MultiModal Narrative interventiom for preschoolers, newcomers and English learners
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