She is a post doctorate associate professor at the Department of Linguistic Education and the Faculty of Education at the University of Barcelona (UB). Her research focuses on the acquisition of foreign languages (especially the role of individual differences), autonomy and language learning and training language teachers. She is a member of the teaching innovation group, Dynamics of Teaching Innovation for Language Learning (DIDAL) at the University of Barcelona and is a member of the Group in Research on Language Acquisition (GRAL) directed by Carmen Muñoz Lahoz.
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