Type: Arqus Plurilingual and Intercultural Hub
Format: Online
Open to: Academics & researchers, Students
We invite you to join the first session in the 2026-27 edition of the 9 Months, 9 Universities webinar series, organised within the framework of the Arqus Plurilingual and Intercultural Hub. The webinar, hosted by the University of Granada, will take place on Thursday, 29 October, at 11:00 CET. The session will be broadcast live on YouTube and held in Spanish.
The session, entitled “Learning the Spanish Verbal System Through a Serious Game: Morfemo and the Island of Verbs”, will be presented by Alejandro Castañeda Castro from the University of Granada.
In this webinar, participants will be introduced to an original digital resource developed as part of the IMAGINE project (Ref.: PID2021-128771OB-I00), funded by Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the initiative “Una forma de hacer Europa”. The resource is a serious game entitled Morfemo and the Island of Verbs, designed for learners of Spanish and freely available as a mobile application.
Dr Alejandro Castañeda Castro holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Granada, where he received an extraordinary doctoral award for the 1993–1995 period. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Linguistics and Literary Theory at the University of Granada.
He is co-author of Gramática Básica del Estudiante de Español (Barcelona: Editorial Difusión, 2011), a work that has been translated into several languages and published in international editions by various foreign publishers, including Pearson-Prentice Hall in the United States and Klett in Germany. The book has also served as a methodological model for the development of grammars of Italian and Portuguese.
