Julie Waddington is Lecturer (Serra Húnter Programme) in the Department of Specific Didactics (Faculty of Education & Psychology), coordinating the ELT area and teaching on the Early Childhood Education and Primary Education degree and the Master in Attention to Diversity in Inclusive Education. She previously taught at Edge Hill University & Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she completed her PhD in Literature and Critical Theory.
She coordinates a core area (Linguistic, identity and cultural diversity) of the Cultura i Educació research group: https://culturaieducacio.cat/objectius-preguntes-i-linies-dinvestigacio/
...and takes an active role as member/promoter of the Funds of knowledge International Alliance https://fundsofknowledge.org/
She has coordinated the university's English as a Medium Teaching Innovation Network (ICE) since its creation in December 2020: https://www.udg.edu/ca/ice/innovacio-docent/xarxes-dinnovacio-docent/xid-english-as-a-medium-of-education
Current lines of research interest:
- foreign language learning in the early years
- children’s literature in language learning
- learner identity / foreign language learner self-concept
- funds of knowledge/funds of identity & multilingual identities
Recent publications:
Waddington, J. (2022). 'We are people, you know': children's views on the use of video recordings in the EFL Class. Cambridge Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2022.2040953
Waddington, J. (2021). Rethinking the 'ideal native speaker teacher' in early childhood education. Language, Culture and Curriculum. DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2021.1898630
Waddington, J. (2020). Motivating self and others through a whole-school storytelling project: authentic language and literacy development. E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 7(1), 124-144. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.11.188
Waddington, J., Siqués, C., Carolà Vilà, M., Jimenez Moreno, M. N., (2020). A funds of knowledge approach to promoting school engagement. Psicologia em Pesquisa. Vol 14, No. 1. https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/psicologiaempesquisa/article/view/27698
Waddington, J. (2019). Developing primary school students' foreign language learner self-concept. System, Volume 82, Pages 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2019.02.012
Waddington, J. (2018). Teacher understanding and implementation of motivational strategies in ELT. ELT Journal, Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 162–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccx044
Waddington, J., Coto, S., & Siqués, C. (2018). Creating and evaluating a foreign language area in an early childhood setting. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 26(3), 334–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2018.1462998