Montserrat Capdevila Batet

Montse Capdevila Batet is a Researcher at the Department of English Philology and German Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She specializes in English linguistics focusing on multilingual contexts, particularly Catalan-Spanish bilingualism and second language acquisition. Her work integrates generative theory with empirical research on language production and interpretation.

Education:

• PhD in English Philology, UAB (1996)
• Graduate in English Philology, UAB (1990)

Research Interests:
Explores asymmetries in L2 acquisition, syntax variation in bilingual learners, code-switching phenomena, and pedagogical strategies for language education. Her projects emphasize task-based peer interaction in young learners' language development and syntactic analysis of complex sentences. Recent work addresses null subject parameters in L2 English production.

Collaborations:

• Coordinator of the GReLA research group
• Principal investigator in EU-funded projects (2020-2024)
• Collaborator in multilingual acquisition studies since 1991

Teaching Innovations: Developed active learning methods for first-year English grammar courses, documented in pedagogical publications.