“Profiling and training global dimensions of L2 English pronunciation proficiency (L2E-PPT)”
Dates: 01/09/2023-31/07/2026
Funding: Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2022-138129NB-I00)
Principal Investigator: Joan C. Mora
“taskGen”
Dates: Sept 2021 – Sept 2024
Funding: Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-119009RB-I00) and National Research Agency (10.13039/501100011033)
Principal Investigator: Roger Gilabert
Members: Júlia Barón, Joan Castelví, Elisabet Comelles, Mayya Levkina, Aleksandra Malicka, Matthew Pattemore, Vera Trager, Gina Arnold
“Pronunciation and phono-lexical representations in Spanish EFL learners: assessing the benefits of phonetic training and form-focused instructed SLA (PhonLex-iSLA)”
Dates: 01/06/2020 to 30/05/2023
Funding: Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-107814GB-I00)
Principal Investigator: Joan C. Mora
“Optimal conditions for language learning through original version audio-visual input. Input and learner factors”
Dates: June 2020 – June 2023
Funding: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity (PID2019-110594)
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix
Members: Daniela Avello, Júlia Barón, María Luz Celaya, Sara Feijoo, Ferran Gesa, Natalia Moskvina, Anastasia Pattemore-Plotnikova, Geòrgia Pujadas, Mar Suárez, Olena Vasylets
“Aprendizaje de idiomas en cursos de distintas modalidades: el efecto de la distribución del tiempo y la interacción online”
Dates: June 2020 – June 2023
Funding: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity (PID2019-110536GB-I00)
Principal Investigators: Raquel Serrano and Elsa Tragant
“iRead”
Dates: January 2017 – December 2020
Funding: European Union H2020 (AMD-731724-9)
Principal Investigator: Asimina Vasalou (University College London)
Local Principal Investigator: Roger Gilabert
Members: Sara Feijoo
Website: https://iread-project.eu
“Habilitats orals per a les professions del futur: un programa d’intervenció en el currículum de secundària a Catalunya”
Dates: April 2018 – April 2020
Funding: RecerCaixa 2017 and ACUP (2017ACUP0249)
Principal Investigators: Joan Carles Mora and Pilar Prieto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
“El aprendizaje intencional e incidental del inglés (LE) a través de input auténtico. El caso de la subtitulación”
Dates: January 2017 – December 2019
Funding: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity (FFI2016-80564-R)
Principal Investigators: Carme Muñoz and Roger Gilabert
Members: Júlia Barón, Teresa Cadierno, María Luz Celaya, Eva Cerviño, Sara Feijoo, Natalia Fullana, Ferran Gesa, Mayya Levkina, Imma Miralpeix, Joan Carles Mora, Mireia Ortega, Geòrgia Pujadas, Mar Suárez, Olena Vasylets
“Maximizing the role of L2 input through multiple exposures”
Dates: January 2017 – December 2019
Funding: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity (FFI2016-80576-P)
Principal Investigators: Elsa Tragant and Raquel Serrano
Members: Eva Cerviño, Àngels Llanes, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Anna Vallbona, Àngels Pinyana, Mireia Ortega
“Tactile learning on non-native sounds”
Dates: November 2018 – October 2019
Funding: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFI2017-91591-EXP)
Principal Investigator: Núria Esteve-Gibert
Members: Sara Feijoo, Olena Vasylets, Mar Suárez, Carme Muñoz, Roger Gilabert, Natalia Fullana, Joan Carles Mora, Raquel Serrano
“Content and Language Integrated Learning in Pre-primary Education“
Dates: September 2018 – September 2019
Funding: Fundació Escoles Diocesanes i Parroquials del Bisbat de Terrassa
Principal Investigators: Júlia Barón and Helena Roquet (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
“The EFL learning potential of in- and out-of-school exposure, with a focus on undubbed videos. Effects of age, proficiency and cognitive differences”
Dates: January 2014 – December 2016
Funding: Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (FFI2013-47616-P)
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: Júlia Barón, Teresa Cadierno, Eva Cerviño, Sara Feijoo, Natalia Fullana, Roger Gilabert, Gisela Grañena, Mayya Levkina, Imma Miralpeix, Joan Carles Mora, Mar Suárez
Collaborators: Ferran Gesa, Geòrgia Pujadas, Olena Vasylets
“Multimodality input and comprehension-based practice: The effects of a reading-while-listening program on the acquisition of English as a foreign language”
Dates: January 2014 – December 2016
Funding: Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (FFI2013-40952-P)
Principal Investigator: Elsa Tragant
Members: Eva Cerviño, Àngels Llanes, Anna Marsol Jornet, Raquel Serrano Serrano, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Anna Vallbona, Àngels Pinyana
“The interplay of inhibitory skill and L2 phonology: Task effects and inhibition types”
Dates: January 2015 – December 2015
Funding: Language Learning Journal
Principal Investigator: Joan C. Mora
Members: Isabelle Darcy
“Lessons from the English language classroom in primary school and beyond: from description to intervention”
Dates: November 2011 – December 2014
Funding: Recercaixa 2011 (Obra Social ‘La Caixa’)
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: Sara Feijoo, Gisela Grañena, Nina Spada, Elsa Tragant
“Adquisición del inglés a diferentes edades en contextos de exposición intensiva extraescolar y escolar”
Dates: January 2011 – June 2014
Funding: Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2010-18006)
Principal Investigator: Raquel Serrano Serrano
Members: Àngels Llanes, Anna Marsol Jornet, Elsa Tragant
“Age, input and aptitude as predictors of proficiency in English as a foreign language: a longitudinal study”
Dates: January 2011 – June 2014
Funding: Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2010-21478)
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: Julia Barón, Maria Luz Celaya, Eva Cerviño, Catherine J. Doughty, Sara Feijoo, Natàlia Fullana Rivera, Roger Gilabert, Mayya Levkina, Imma Miralpeix, Juan Carlos Mora, Teresa Navés, Mireia Ortega Durán, Laura Sánchez Pérez, Maria del Mar Suárez Vilagran
“Young foreign/second language learners in Europe: a multinational longitudinal study”
Dates: December 2007 – November 2010
Funding: Lifelong Learning, European Comission (135632-LLP-1-2007-1-UKKA1-K11SCR)
Main Principal Investigator: Janet Enever (University of Reading)
Local Principal Investigators: Carme Muñoz
Members: Lucilla Lopriore, Evelien Krikhaar, Magdalena Szpotowicz, Elsa Tragant, Eva Lindgren, Gun Lundberg, Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović, Stela Letica
“Age, input and aptitude. Long-term effects in the acquisition of English in multilingual contexts”
Dates: October 2007 – November 2010
Funding: Ministry of Education and Science (HUM2007-64302/FILO)
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
“Estudi d’un Grup de Centres Educatius de Referència en l’Aprenentatge de l’Anglès a Secundària / Study of a set of High Schools with excellent results in English”
Dates: 2008 – 2009
Funding: AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya (2007ARIE10040)
Principical Investigator: Elsa Tragant
Members: 9
“Estudi d’un Grup de Centres Educatius de Referència en l’Aprenentatge de l’Anglès a Secundària / Study of a set of High Schools with excellent results in English”
Dates: 2007 – 2008
Funding: AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya (2006ARIE10071)
Principical Investigator: Elsa Tragant
Members: 10
“Developmental sequences in the acquisition of English as a foreign language”
Dates: 2004 – 2007
Funding: Ministry of Education and Science (HUM2004-05167/FILO)
Principical Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: 9
“Age, intensity of instruction and metalinguistic awareness in EFL learning”
Dates: 2002 – 2004
Funding: TESOL International Research Foundation (TIRF), Washington
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz and J.White-L.Collins (Canada)
Members: 6
“Los factores edad, intensidad y tipo de exposición en el aprendizaje del inglés”
Dates: 2001 – 2004
Funding: DGICYT
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: 11
Los efectos de la edad (Período crítico) en la adquisición formal de una lengua extranjera
Dates: 1998 – 2001
Funding: DGICYT
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: 8
“Translanguage in Europe – Content and Language Integrated Learning (T.I.E.-C.L.I.L)”
Dates: 1998 – 2001
Funding: Comisión Europea. Programa Sócrates. (Lingua Action A )
Principal Investigator: Gisella Langé (Lombardía, Italia) and Carme Muñoz
Members: 20 (9 entidades)
“Los efectos de la edad (período crítico) en la adquisición formal de una lengua extranjera (inglés). Con especial énfasis en el periodo 2/3-6 años”
Dates: 1995 – 1998
Funding: DGICYT
Principal Investigator: Carme Muñoz
Members: 8
GRAL Research Group 