Dr Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester holds an MA in Linguistics from University College London and a PhD in English Language and Linguistics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is an Associate Professor in the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interests include child and adult Second Language Acquisition in bilingual immersion and instructed classroom contexts and also in CLIL primary education contexts. She is currently leading the research line EFLIC (English as a Foreign Language in Instruction Contexts) within the funded research group GReLA (2021SGR00684) and teaches English Grammar and Teaching Methodology at the undergraduate level and Instructed SLA and CLIL in the department’s MA program. She is also the Head of Department (Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística) at the UAB.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2793-9179