Mandy Deal

Mandy Deal, PhD is an academic affiliated with the Institute for Multilingualism at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. Her research focuses on foreign language education, multilingualism in academic contexts, and classroom interaction dynamics. She has contributed to studies on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) practices in health sciences programs and explores how epistemic stances influence teaching interactions.

Her work combines sociolinguistic theory with educational practice, analyzing peer collaboration in multilingual settings and embodied aspects of language learning. Key contributions include studies on interactional resources during collaborative writing tasks and the role of emotion in poetic language acquisition.

Deal has published extensively on topics such as professional collaboration between content and language teachers, and her research extends to policy-oriented inclusive approaches in language education.