The Mission
To promote interdisciplinary language research at UCF and with collaborations at partner institutions while serving the needs of language learners in our communities
To provide opportunities for teachers in training to develop a pedagogical skillset which will serve the needs of their future language students
COLORS Datastory
COLORS News
General Colors News
September-October 2025
UCF Undergraduate TEFL Certificate students in Issues in Second Language Acquisition meet virtually with the undergraduate English Didactics class at UHU to discuss feedback on phonetics/phonology teaching materials development.
February-March 2025
Students in the UCF and UHU master’s programs collaborate to build lessons in virtual exchange and team teach the lessons they design to English language students attending Seminole State College in live online format.
January 2025
Multiliteracies and Learning by Design teacher training materials added to UCF MA TESOL and UHU Official Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching (English Language Specialty) (MAES) programs
August 2024
Work begins for the Fulbright grant year materials development and pilot data collection.
February 2024
COLORS Principal Investigator (Christina Torres, Ph.D.) receives a Fulbright Early Career/Postdoctoral Award grant to collaborate on new COLORS services and research in collaboration with faculty at the University of Huelva (UHU) in Huelva, Spain
- Project Title: A Multiliteracies Approach for Telecollaborative Language Teacher Training and Service Learning
- For more information about UHU’s Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development Research Center project: Multiliteracies for Adult At-Risk Learners of Additional Languages (MULTILITS), please see their website: https://multilits.eu/en/presentation
August 2023
- COLORS Principal Investigator (Christina Torres, Ph.D.) transitions from Lecturer to Assistant Professor at UCF.
September 2021
- A collaboration with Seminole State College brings students from their English language programs into COLORS Talking Point sessions.
September 2020
- A collaboration with Instituto de Enseñansa Superior Aguilares in Argentina brought pre-service English language educators to COLORS Talking Point sessions.
September 2019
- A collaboration with University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy brought administrative personnel to COLORS Speaking with a Purpose sessions.
- A collaboration with Colégio Anglo Americano and Colégio Monjolo in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil brought English learners to COLORS online English services.
- The Grammar in Writing (GiW) service for international graduate students at UCF begins in collaboration with the College of Graduate Studies and the University Writing Center.
February 2019
Bate-Papo, online Portuguese conversation practice began.
Colors Research News
June 2025
Community English data supports publication in Minnesota TESOL Journal
Torres, C. & Toscano-Fuentes, C. (2025). Multiliteracies in action: A flamenco twist on practicing multimodal reader-viewership. MinneTESOL Journal. 41(1). https://minnetesoljournal.org/multiliteracies-in-action-a-flamenco-twist-on-practicing-multimodal-reader-viewership/
April 2025
Co-investigators added to IRB STUDY 0007413
- Analí Fernandez Corbacho , Ph.D.
- Carmen Toscano-Fuentes, Ph.D.
January 2025
Community English data supports study:
- Principal Investigator: Christina Torres, Ph.D.
- Project title: Perceptions of Multiliteracies Teacher training and Telecollaboration
- IRB STUDY 00007413
January 2021
COLORS Repository Updated for Collaboration with University of Huelva, Spain
- Principal Investigator: Christina Torres, Ph.D.
- Co-investigator: Kerry Purmensky, Ph.D.
- IRB STUDY: MOD00005560
- Project Title: A Multiliteracies Approach for Telecollaborative Language Teacher Training and Service Learning
GiW Data supports publication in Higher Learning Research Communications
- Torres, C., & Saribas, E. (2024). Instructional Perspectives to Providing Corrective Feedback for Advanced Second Language Writers. Higher Learning Research Communications, 14.
- DOI:10.18870/hlrc.v14i0.1545
January 2024
COLORS Repository Data Supports Research
- GiW Tutor Perceptions
- Christina Torres, Ph.D.
- Elif Saribas, MA TESOL
- IRB STUDY: 00006360
May 2022
COLORS Principal Investigator Graduates with Ph.D.
- Christina Torres, Ph.D. in Education/TESOL
- https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/1103/
September 2021
COLORS Repository Update with New Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Christina Torres, MA TESOL
- Co-investigator: Kerry Purmensky, Ph.D.
- IRB STUDY: MOD00002242
January 2021
COLORS Repository Data Supports an MA Thesis
- Corrective Feedback in Pronunciation: The English Learner Lens
- Elif Saribas, MA TESOL
- IRB STUDY#00002659
- https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/556/
May 2020
COLORS Repository Data Supports Ph.D. Research
- A comparison of STEM vs. non-STEM in the gains from grammar tutoring in academic writing
- Caoyuan Ma, Ph.D. Education/TESOL
- IRB STUDY#00001469
January 2020
COLORS Repository Data Supports M.A. Thesis
- Pre-service Teacher Perceptions About Pronunciation: A Qualitative Investigation
- Madeline Diller, MA TESOL
- IRB STUDY#00001340 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/34/
September 2019
COLORS Repository formally begins
- Quantitative and qualitative data from services are gathered and can be shared with UCF IRB protocol.
- Marcella Farina, Ph.D.
- IRB STUDY#00000834
April 2019
First COLORS data set issued
IRB STUDY#00000354
Call and Form-focused Feedback on Writing Using a Think-aloud Protocol
Heather Vazquez, MA TESOL