June 2026

  • Keynote speech. Closing ceremony of the Master’s course for Secondary School Teachers and Language Schools (UPF) Title: Learning languages beyond the classroom. 

May 2026

  • Co-authored presentation at the Symposium on Study Abroad in Lleida: The Impact of Prior EFL Cultural Capital on Listening Progress During ERASMUS Study Abroad.

April 2026

  • Paper submitted to International Journal of Applied Linguistics with Mireia Trenchs. More info soon!
  • A new version of the Chapter on Study Abroad an Instructed Second Language Acquisition, published in the Routledge handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) in 2017; a volume edited by Masatoshi Sato, and Shawn Lowen, has been accepted for publication for the second edition of the Handbook!!! 
  • Paper presented at the International Spring Seminar organized at the International University of Catalonia (Barcelona), with the title: Cultural Capital and EFL Listening Gains before and after undergraduate mobility

March 2026

  • Guest lecture at the XXIX Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, for doctoral students in these areas from the main Catalan universities, UB, UAB, UPF. Title: Time and spaces in second language acquisition. 
  • Seminar inter-research groups GREILI (UPF) GRESIB (UIB) Fantastic experience sharing studies and discussing on the topic Exchange of experiences on inclusion at the international university and multilingualism. 

February 2026

  • One co-authored abstract accepted for the International Spring Seminar organized at the International University of Catalonia (Barcelona). 
  • One co-authored abstract accepted for the International Symposium on Learning through Mobility conference organized at the Universitat de Lleida (Spain). 

January 2026

  • Paper published in Revista del Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària (CIDUI). With Carmen López Ferrero, Delfina Aliaga, Gemma Barberà, Judit Feliu, Sharon Gutiérrez, Elisabeth Miche, Carmen Pérez Vidal and Maria Wirf. Open Access.
  • Invitation to join the EMICLES Network on Internationalisation and Multilingualism: Strategies for Content and Language Integration  in Higher Education, including 16 universities in Spain.
  • Invitation to join the GREILI group at UPF, led by Mireia Trenchs. 

November 2025

  • External examiner at the VIVA to the Department of Modern Languages at the University College Cork, Ireland. Ning Yang: Native-Nonnative-Speaker Interaction in Second Language Acquisition An Exploration of Turn Management, Topic Management and Negotiation Strategies in L2 Chinese.

October 2025

  • Opening keynote speech of the Master’s course for Secondary School Teachers and Language Schools, with the title: How languages are learned in instructed second language acquisition. 

September 2025

  • Teacher Training session for the Generalitat de Catalunya, Department of Education. AVANCEM scheme. Title of the session: Instructed language learning in primary and secondary school revisited: Focus-on-Form. 

June 2025

May 2025

  • Overview presentation at the CLAminari (Universitat de Lleida). The conditions and effects of input and interaction while abroad: A focus on research methods.

March 2025

  • Co-authored book presentation at the ALLENCAM Seminar (UPF), with Cristina Sanz (Georgetown University, U.S.). Methods in Study Abroad Research: Past, Present and Future.

September 2024

  • Master’s Course in International Studies in Media, Power and Difference. Opening plenary:” Study Abroad (or in an International Milieu): Unveiling the Linguistic, Cultural, and Personal Growth Behind the Experience”. UPF.

April 2024

  • Freiburg Universität. Sprachlabor. Ponència convidada “Language Centres in European Higher Education: Meeting the Demands of Internationalisation, ELF, Digitalisation, and Multilingualism”. Freiburg Universität.

March 2024

  • Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics-GURT’ 2024 Invited Symposium “Study Abroad research contributions and challenges for SLA theory.” U.S.

February 2024

  • Diàlegs humanístics UPF: “Llengües i identitat” with Miquel Cabal. UPF.

November 2023

  • Jornada sobre Recursos per a l’aula de català L2/LE/LA. El paper de l'input en l'adquisició de llengües: Quan, Com i Per què? Societat d'Ensenyament i Recerca del Català com a llengua estrangera. UPF.

​October 2021

  • TABE Conference. Multilingualism in European secondary and tertiary education: Policies and trends. El Paso, Texas: U.S. (virtual delivery)

​June 2021

  • Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (INCOLLAB) Conference. The integration of formal instruction CLIL and study abroad at all educational levels.

November 2020

  • A research study on the effects of ERASMUS exchanges: Theory and Practice. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Barcelona.