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As part of ARLE/IFTE Barcelona 2026, keynote speakers invited to the conference will lead sessions and engage in dialogues for local teachers on Saturday morning. These events are jointly organised with the UAB Education Institute and the Regional Government, as part of the Barcelona Summer School for Teachers. Event in Catalan.
Day 3
Conferences & dialogues for local teachers
Writing, reading and thinking: keys to transforming the language classroom today
Saturday
9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Included in the Conference Fee
No registration needed for ARLE participants
Registration for local teachers, here
In Barcelona, educators have a strong tradition of attending summer schools focused on in-service teacher education. These schools typically occur in the final days of June and early July.
One of the institutions that best represents this spirit—both for primary and secondary education—is the UAB Education Institute, founded in the early seventies, still under the Franco Regime.
Another key organisation, active since the 1960s and dedicated to primary education, is the Associació Rosa Sensat, where the ARLE/IFTE Doctoral School will take place.
Programme
8:45-9:00 – Welcome (Aula Magna, Faculty of Geography, UB)
9:00-9:05 – Presentation: Xavier Fontich (ARLE/UAB) and Dolors Masats (GREIP/UAB)
9:05 – 10:00 – Montserrat Castelló (Universitat Ramon Llull): “Writing to communicate, communicating while learning”
Writing is often approached as a simple technique for communicating ideas. However, numerous research studies conducted both inside and outside the school environment have shown that, in reality, it is a human activity that includes communication but goes beyond it. Writing plays a fundamental role in the construction of ideas, thanks to its epistemic potential, and also in the configuration of one’s own identity and in the development of critical reasoning. In this conference, we will review key aspects to consider in the classroom to support learners in this learning process.
10:00 – 11:00 – Daniel Cassany (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “Teaching to read and write with a funny parrot in the classroom”
The rapid spread of GenAI (generative artificial intelligence) marks a historical shift toward the automation of writing and dramatically transforms many current literacy practices, both inside and outside the classroom. The typewriter that is ChatGPT (and other lesser-known IAGs) modifies access to texts, reading, text production, and even the teaching and assessment of writing and other disciplines that use it as an educational tool. The talk will review some of the changes caused by this arrival, the results of the first research, and the questions that specialists in literacy education are asking themselves.
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 – Round Table:
“The Luxury of Thinking about Languages: Public Outreach, Commitment and Citizenship – A Tribute to The Luxury of Language by Jesús Tuson on the 40th Anniversary of its Publication (1986–2026)”
Speakers: Luci Nussbaum, Artur Noguerol, Mila Segarra and Amparo Tuson
The book The Luxury of Language inaugurated an extraordinary series of works dedicated to the public dissemination of linguistic knowledge. With unusual clarity, Jesús Tuson demonstrated that reflecting on languages is not an exercise reserved for specialists, but rather a collective necessity for any society that seeks to understand itself. The work of the linguist is undoubtedly rooted in basic research: describing, analysing and explaining how languages function, their variation, their history and their expressive potential.
Yet this work does not end within the academic community. As Tuson argued, linguistic knowledge also entails a public responsibility: helping to educate society in ideas that encourage appreciation of languages, respect for them, and an understanding of the remarkable diversity within unity that they represent.
Public dissemination is not about simplifying knowledge, but about making rigorous thinking accessible. It involves challenging linguistic prejudices, dismantling artificial hierarchies between languages and speakers, and showing that all languages are part of our cultural heritage and instruments of human dignity.
In this sense, love and respect for languages also become a school of citizenship: they help us build societies that are more just, more open, and more committed to respect for people. This round table seeks to pay tribute to a book and to a way of understanding linguistics as knowledge, as commitment, and as a public service.
12:20 – 13:20 - Glòria Bordons (UB): Breaking the fun image of Joan Brossa
Joan Brossa is a poet who is widely used in classrooms, especially at the early levels. The ingenuity of visual poems and objects allows students to enter a different and playful world. But Brossa always insisted that all his work was poetry and only added an adjective when it could create confusion, such as scenic or visual poetry. The talk will focus on Brossa's poetic quest and will present little-known poems. In addition, some fragments will be read in which the poet made his conception of education very clear.
13:20 – 14:00 - Antoni Rossell (UAB): Troubadour songs
Antoni Rossell is a performer of medieval music and director of C. Courtly Music Consort. He received the 2018 Enderrock Prize for Best Classical Music CD and has recorded several albums of medieval and traditional music, including recent releases in Brazil and Barcelona (2024). He also starred in the film Le Cid chanté par Antoni Rossell (2017). He is Associate Professor of Romance Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and director of the Arxiu Occità.
-Companho, farai un vers qu'er covinen, Guilhem De Peitieu (1071-1126)
-Lanqand li jorn son lonc en mai, Jaufré Rudel, (c.1113 Blaia - c. 1170)
-Reis glorios, verais lums e clartatz, Giraut de Bornelh (1138-1215)
-Ce fu en mai, Moniot D'arras (...1213-1239...)
-Tartarassa ni voutor Peire Cardenal (1180-1278)
-Can vei la lauzeta mover, Bernart De Ventadorn (...1130-1190)
-La dousa votz ai auzida Bernart De Ventadorn (...1130-1190)
-Kalenda maia, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras (c. 1180-1207)
The UAB Education Institute (Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, ICE) was created in the early 1970s, still during the Franco dictatorship. At that time, the establishment of Institutes of Education Sciences represented a pioneering initiative in Spain aimed at strengthening the relationship between universities and the education system, as well as promoting the modernisation of teaching and teacher education.
From its beginnings, the ICE at UAB has played an important role in educational innovation and teacher education. It has promoted numerous initiatives for teacher training, collaborated with schools and educational institutions, and supported research on teaching and learning processes. During the expansion of the education system in the 1970s and 1980s, the institute became firmly established as a key space for teachers’ professional development and for the dissemination of innovative pedagogical practices.
Today, the ICE continues to act as a bridge between the university and the education system. Its activities include continuing professional development for teachers, support for educational innovation, and collaboration with schools and educational institutions. Through these initiatives, the institute contributes to improving teaching practices and fostering dialogue between educational research and classroom practice.
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