The ALPAGA project (Alternances Linguistiques Plurielles Avec Grenoble Alpes, i.g. Plural Linguistic Alternations with Grenoble Alpes, from May 2024 to December 2025, supported by the IRGA2024 program*) brings together five researchers from two UGA laboratories (LIDILEM and ILCEA4), four researchers outside the IDEX scope (three of whom are abroad in Spain and Italy), and several collaborators in Brazil. Its goal is to explore an emerging field in language education: plurilingual oral and multimodal exchanges, as practiced in international telecollaborative training and facilitated by digital technologies, particularly platforms, videoconferencing tools, and instant messaging.

The exploration is conducted on three fronts:

1. Data collection, coding, and analysis
2. Experimentation and observation of plurilingual mediation practices
3. Expansion to new international audiences (European alliances such as UNITE! and UNITA, dual-degree programs)

This exploratory activity aims to result in six deliverables, both scientific and pedagogical:

1. A secure, consultable corpus of oral and multimodal data.
2. A protocol for the creation, storage, and consultation of the corpus.
3. A collective scientific work addressing the project's thematic focus, analyzing behaviors, strategies, and attitudes in plurilingual exchange situations.
4. A multilingual pedagogical guide for integrating institutional groups into plurilingual telecollaborative sessions in various formats.
5. A needs analysis for new audiences.
6. Scenarios and resources for these new audiences, including staff training, tailored to their linguistic repertoire and specific needs.

To achieve this, the project builds on the UCIL-IC interaction corpus (UNITA Alliance) and telecollaborative sessions conducted on UGA's Moodle E-Formation platform, involving groups from universities in various countries (Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, etc.). The analyses of these corpora aim to deepen the understanding of plurilingual multimodal exchanges in educational contexts, describe them, assess their effects on engagement, communication, collaboration, cultural dialogue, and linguistic appropriation, and derive resources for training students and staff.

The first study day on December 6, 2024, will provide an initial overview of the work, focusing on corpus development, data management, analysis methods and tools, and identifying and formalizing research questions. By addressing the functional and strategic issues of plurilingual interactions and code-switching, emphasizing what unites and connects, and defining what separates or leads to unproductive conflict, the ALPAGA project seeks to promote the values of equity, intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, peace, and democracy, contributing to the development of a plural linguistic policy.

* This project is part of the IRGA2024 call for proposals, Initiatives Research Grenoble Alpes, funded by UGA, Grenoble INP-UGA, ENSAG, Sciences Po Grenoble, and IdEx UGA.