
Dr Angela De Britos
Senior Teaching Fellow
Education
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Prize And Awards
- International Proposal Development Funding
- Recipient
- 1/2/2024
- SERA funding award
- Recipient
- 18/11/2022
- 2019 Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Awards nominee
- Recipient
- 10/5/2019
- GTCS Accredited Professional Recognition
- Recipient
- 1/9/2018
- Herald Higher Education Awards nominee
- Recipient
- 28/6/2018
- Fellowship of HEA
- Recipient
- 26/2/2014
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Publications
- How digital technologies support the development of linguistic and cultural identities of Spanish speaking immigrants in Scotland
- De Britos Angela
- Cahiers de l'ILOB/ OLBI Journal (Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute) (2023)
- How digital technologies support the development of linguistic and cultural identities of Spanish speaking immigrants in Scotland
- De Britos Angela
- Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning Annual Conference (2023)
- Supporting the development of linguistic and cultural identities of Spanish speaking immigrants in Scotland
- De Britos Angela
- Nordic Education Research Association (NERA) annual conference 2023 (2023)
- Using digital technology to support the development of linguistic and cultural identities of Spanish-speaking bilinguals in Scotland
- De Britos Angela
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia International Conference (2022)
- Communication across the Sea : how digital technologies support the development of linguistic and cultural identities of Spanish-speaking bilinguals in Scotland
- De Britos Angela
- 6th Saarbrücken International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching (2021)
- Nurturing the identities of bilingual children and families
- De Britos Angela
- Contemporary Childhood Conference (2021)
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Professional Activities
- FEMINIST RESEARCH METHODS ACROSS UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH PRACTICE, PROCESS & POWER RELATIONS
- Invited speaker
- 25/4/2024
- Nordic Education Research Association (NERA) annual conference 2024
- Participant
- 6/3/2024
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 8/1/2024
- Building an EAP Toolkit for a New Era
- Speaker
- 17/11/2023
- Stakeholder engagement event for the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy
- Participant
- 16/11/2023
- Djurre Fijen
- Host
- 13/11/2023
Projects
- Building socially sustainable societies through the linguistic and cultural integration of immigrants
- De Britos, Angela (Principal Investigator) Mouat, Clare (Principal Investigator)
- The Nordic countries share the ambition of building socially sustainable societies, and to achieve this goal, the inclusion of newcomers – and hence the successful teaching of the Nordic languages as second languages – is a key component. The Nordic welfare societies share several unique traits regarding societal and educational structures, therefore sharing and building knowledge about the Nordic languages as second languages is highly relevant. This project brings together researchers and teacher educators from across the Nordic region who will share ongoing research and development projects from the field of second language teaching and learning in the Nordic countries through on-line seminars and a network meetings. The meetings and seminars will address the following themes: Current issues in second language pedagogies i.e. technology, translanguaging, grammar; the Nordic languages as second languages across the Nordics; the status of the Nordic languages and language policies across the Nordics; the status of minority languages/family languages; innovation in second language teaching and issues of inclusion of second language learners. The network will focus on a comparative Nordic perspective, and the outcomes will include an extensive overview of insights from current research in the Nordic languages as second languages and the different educational models and practices in use in the participating countries. The outcomes will be highly relevant for both teacher educators and their students and will be made accessible to both educators and students, but also constitute a resource for further research and network building both for researchers within and beyond the network.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Erasmus+ Project: Integrating primary and pre-school virtual exchange projects into language teacher education
- De Britos, Angela (Co-investigator) Birnie, Inge (Principal Investigator) Mouat, Clare (Co-investigator)
- Ongoing consultancy for the INVITED project (integrating primary and pre-school virtual exchange projects into language teacher education) seeks to promote the use of virtual exchange (VE) projects in primary and pre-school language education and to develop teachers' competences regarding VE by integrating VE projects with young learners into pre- and in-service language teacher education. Project members are teacher educators from five different universities in Europe in cooperation with local schools.
Outputs:
The project is going to implement a survey on teachers´ experiences with VE in pre-school and primary language education to find out about teachers´ needs.
A community for teachers interested in VE is created in the form of an e-twinning group to exchange experiences and materials and display good practice.
A teacher education module that includes the implementation of a VE project in a local school is developed, adapted for a professional development course and made available on the ESEC platform.
The project provides opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to connect through the online community and offers support for their VE projects. It develops a teacher education module that will be part of the partners´ curricula and made available as an online training course. These outcomes will help promote the use of VE in young learner language education, develop teachers´ competences regarding VE and foster children´s and teachers´ cultural, linguistic and digital competences. - 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026
- Generation Global: Multilingualism and intercultural skills for a dual-competency workforce of the future
- Hare, Paul (Principal Investigator) Bell, Sheena (Co-investigator) De Britos, Angela (Co-investigator) Mouat, Clare (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2021
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Contact
Dr
Angela
De Britos
Senior Teaching Fellow
Education
Email: angela.de-britos@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8060