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Dr Imma Miralpeix

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Associate Professor, University of Barcelona

Dr Imma Miralpeix is Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, where she has also directed the MA programme in Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts. Her main research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition, especially lexical development and assessment, and multilingualism. She is the author of several publications in these areas and has taken part in different funded national and European projects on second language learning and teaching. She has also worked on the development of several computer tools for vocabulary researchers. Her recent research has analysed the potential of multimodal input for L2 vocabulary learning in EFL settings at different proficiency levels.