Ongoing

Rodó, Jordi (2022- ) A longitudinal study on the cognitive and linguistic abilities of senior learners of English as a foreign language. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Garriga Galobardes, Silvia (2021- ). Translation in motion: the expression of motion in English and Catalan. Supervisor: H. Curell

Lagares Carretero, Mª Carmen (2021- ). An analysis of hate speech in political discourse in Spain and the United States. Supervisor: A. Fernández-Montraveta

Styles, Laura (2021- ) A study of the effect of type of instruction on the comprehension and written production of advanced grammatical forms. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Kaloustian, Shoghig (2020- ) Investigating the Boomerang Correction Strategy: Written Corrective Feedback, Motivation, and the Development of Writing in Young ESL Learners. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

McDaid, Jessica Ann (2020- ) Northern Ireland Boarding Scholls as English Immersion Spaces: A Critical Ethnographic Lens on (Pre)Adolescent Mobility for English Language Learning. Supervisor: E. Codó.

Turk, Gulsah (2020- ). Regimenting Refugee Students’ Lives: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography of an EU-Funded Language Education Project in Turkey. Supervisor: E. Codó.

Barranqueras, Àngel (2019- ) Dimensions of Bilingual Proficiency: Intergenerational Attrition in English-Catalan Bilinguals. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester and M. Capdevila.

Huerta, Andrea (2017- ) L1 use in young learners’ EFL task-based peer interaction. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Defended

2017-2023

Menna, Laura (2023) “‘El oro negro de la ciudad’: una etnografía del sujeto mantero y su voz“. Supervisor: E.Codó (with T. van Dijk).

Sanahuges Escoda, Carme (2022). The Verbal Expression of Empathy in Catalan and English. Supervisor: H. Curell.

Zhang, Mengjia (2021) EMI in non-linguistic courses in Chinese Higher Education: stakeholders’ perceptions and learning outcomes . Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Thomas-Wilhelm, Dakota J. (2020) It’s definitely atomic: the acquisition of atomicity and countability by speakers of Mandarin in an instructed second language acquisition context Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Sunyol García-Moreno, Andrea (2019) “Multilingualism, Elitism and Ideologies of Globalism in International Schools in Catalonia: An Ethnographic Study“. Supervisor: E. Codó.

Lialikhova, Dina (2019) The effect of CLIL on oral communication skills: A case study of teaching about the Second World War in English in Norwegian lower secondary school. PhD Programme in Educational Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, University of Stavagner (UiS), Norway. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester (with Dr Ion Drew).

2010-2017

Garrido Sardà, M. Rosa (2014) “Emmaus as an Imagined Transnational Community: Language, Interdiscursivity and Stratification in a Social Movement“. Supervisor: E. Codó.

Vallbona, Anna (2014) L2 Competence of Young Language Learners in Science and Arts and Crafts CLIL and EFL Instruction Contexts. A Longitudinal Study. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Bret, Anna (2014) L2 English Young Learners’ Oral Production Skills in Instructed Second Language Contexts: A Longitudinal Study of CLIL and EFL Settings. Supervisor: E. Pladevall-Ballester.

Vraciu, Alexandra. (2012). Tense-Aspect Morphology in the Advanced English L2 Variety: Exploring Semantic, Discourse and Cross-linguistic Factors. Supervisor: H. Curell.

Topor, Mihaela (2011). Perífrasis verbales del español y rumano. Un estudio contrastivo. Supervisor: A. Fernández-Montraveta (with G. Vázquez)

Prior to 2010

Pladevall-Ballester, Eisabet (2007) Child and Adult Non-native Subject Development: A Bi-directional Study of English and Spanish. Supervisor: M. Llinàs.

Fernández Montraveta, Ana. (2000). The Analysis of Verbal Lexical Items and Translation Mismatches in English and Spanish. A Theoretical Framework.

Capdevila, Montserrat (1996). The Prefunctional Stage in Language Acquisition: Evidence from English and Catalan.