Dr. Jennifer Ament completed both her MA and PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. She works as an instructor in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she teaches English for Academic Purposes, Advanced Academic writing and Semantics at the undergraduate level. She is also a collaborator in the Arts and Humanities department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya where she teaches Computer-assisted language learning at the Masters level. Her research interests include the context effects on second language acquisition specifically focusing on the acquisition of pragmatics. She also investigates how factors such as individual differences, language identity, ideology, attitudes and motivations interact with language acquisition in multilingual contexts. Her work so far has focused on these variables and how they interact in the English-medium instruction context.