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2026 (1)

COEGO MUÑOZ, SARA. A multimodal pathway to pragmatic development: Prosody and gesture in preschool children's marking of focus types. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2026.

2025 (1)

FLORIT PONS, JÚLIA. Developing, implementing and evaluating the MultiModal Narrative Intervention to enhance the narrative skills of children with typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders: A multimodal approach. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2025.

2023 (2)

XI , XIAOTONG. Multimodal phonetic training: the benefits of hand gestures on learning L2 sounds. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2023.

VALLS RATÉS, IO. Using virtual reality to train public speaking skills in a secondary school setting. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; 2023.

In preparation

  • Folch-Claramunt, Jana (in prep.). Evaluating the effectiveness of a multimodal narrative intervention in Catalan with newcomers: Considering their academic performance, their socioemotional well-being and their language attitudes. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; co-directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF) and Ingrid Vilà-Giménez (Universitat de Girona). Expected thesis defense: September 2028,

  • Hernández-Castellanos, M. (in preparation). The first signs of meaning: Multimodal pragmatic development in infants and toddlersUniversitat Pompeu Fabra; co-directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF) and Ingrid Vilà-Giménez (Universitat de Girona). Expected thesis defense: September 2030.

  • Li, Jiali (in prep.). The role of character viewpoint gestures in narrative discourses: A comprehensive exploration across child-directed and child narrative. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; co-directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF) and Ingrid Vilà-Giménez (Universitat de Girona). Expected thesis defense: September 2028.

  • Meng, Xue (in prep.). Second language acquisition of prosody by Chinese learners of English: A multimodally enriched and pragmatically situated approach.  Universitat Pompeu Fabra; directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF). Expected thesis defense: September 2030.

  • Espejo-Álvarez, Joel (in prep.). Using a multimodal narrative  intervention to boost the oral use and oral competence of Catalan in two  multilingual education settings in Catalonia. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF). Expected thesis defense: September 2027.

  • Sánchez-Ramón, Paula Ginesa (in prep.) Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of focus types in the Catalan language. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; co-directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF) and Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität). Expected thesis defense: September 2026.

  • Yao, Ting (in prep.). Enhancing L2 speaking skills through a multimodal narrative intervention: a classroom-based study in a high-school setting. Universitat Pompeu Fabra; co-directed by Pilar Prieto (ICREA-UPF). Expected thesis defense: September 2026.