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Xavier Blanco is the Director of the Department of French and Romance Philology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a member of the iRead4Skills project consortium, funded by the European Union (HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-07).

We appreciate your willingness to answer a few questions: 

1 – What are your current responsibilities? 

I am a professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at the UAB and serve as the head of the department. Additionally, I lead the UAB research team for the iRead4Skills project. 

 2 – What is UAB’s role in the iRead4Skills project? 

Our team focuses on developing Spanish language resources, particularly dictionaries and corpora, in collaboration with the University of Santiago de Compostela. We are also responsible for testing the iRead4Skills resources and tools with end users, including both teachers and students. 

 3 – What has it been like to work with other consortium members from different geo-cultural and national backgrounds? 

This has been a valuable opportunity to further develop my expertise in teaching foreign languages and literatures in a diverse and multicultural context.

4 – How can the project help improve literacy among the adult Spanish-speaking population? 

The project aims to enhance literacy by identifying and classifying Spanish texts according to topic and difficulty level, as well as offering reading materials tailored to the interests of users.

5 – Can you define the project in three words?

Vocabulary, Text, Reading. 

Source: https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/interview-xavier-blanco-uab-spain