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Professor Carmen Muñoz, ELLiE Project Country Manager >

Carmen Muñoz is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. She holds a Bachelor degree in Psychology and a Bachelor degree in English Philology (Universitat de Barcelona), an MA in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading), and a PhD in English Linguistics (Universitat de Barcelona). Her main research interests are in second language acquisition, in particular, learners' age and individual differences. She is the coordinator of the BAF Project (see edited volume: Muñoz, C. (2006) Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning, Multilingual Matters).

Dr Elsa Tragant Mestres, University of Barcelona

Elsa Tragant Mestres is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Barcelona where she teaches EFL methodology and research methods courses. She holds a bachelor degree in English Philology (Universitat de Barcelona), a MEd in TESOL (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and PhD in English Linguistics (Universitat de Barcelona). Her main research interests are classroom research, motivation towards EFL, and language learning strategies.

The University of Barcelona >

The University of Barcelona > offers a very wide range of subjects in its twenty centres to more than eighty thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students. The UB is a leading higher educational institution in southern Europe and the Mediterranean arc. The UB’s research is at the forefront of scientific production in Spain, with nearly 600 domestic competitive projects underway, 28 European projects and more than 500 contracts with companies; it is listed among the one hundred best European universities and the two hundred best universities in the world.

Carmen Muñoz and Elsa Tragant Mestres are members of GRAL at the University of Barcelona.

GRAL is a research group in second language acquisition which has been actively involved since 1995 in several funded national and international projects related to, among others, the age factor, CLIL and input. See www.ub.edu/GRAL for information on the group’s publications. GRAL is also actively involved in the training of researchers in a European Masters Program ‘Applied Linguistics and SLA in multilingual contexts’ and a PhD program in Applied Linguistics, the latter holding a ‘Quality Award’ since 2003.