PhD:
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Johanna Buitrago Peña. (Co-supervised with Dr. Randall Sadler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Beyond the goggles. The pedagogical affordances of low-immersion virtual reality to enhance communicative competence in young EFL learners (provisional title). 2026- .
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Cristiam Manuel Puentes Leal. AI language learning agents for low-connectivity contexts (provisional title). 2026- .
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Sarah Abou El Goukh. (Co-supervised with Dr. Júlia Llompart Esbert; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Practitioner's Research on AI-Enhanced Teaching of Arabic as FL/L2 (provisional title). 2024-.
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Yu Yunlu. (Co-supervised with Dr. Denise Holguin; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Enseñanza del chino como lengua de herencia en Barcelona: optimización de estrategias pedagógicas en base a las necesidades y características de los estudiantes chinos (provisional title). 2024-.
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Li Changchun. (Co-supervised with Dr. Claudia Vallejo; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). An analysis of the ecology of Chinese heritage language education in Spain (provisional title). 2023-.
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Ese Emmanuel Uwosomah. (Co-supervised with Dr. Claudia Vallejo; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). The evolving dynamics of e-learning and digital education for language acquisition in post-pandemic Europe (provisional title). 2023-.
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Yu Xiaoting. Building a virtual learning community for teacher education by observing and assessing the "VALIANT" project (provisional title). 2021-. (On temporary leave)
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Maria Mont. (Co-supervised with Dr. Dolors Masats; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Necessitats formatives digitals docents i docència virtual (provisional title). 2021-.
PhD research visits (supervised)
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Seren Özgür. Pre-doctoral stay; Department of Foreign Language Education, Graduate School of Educational Sciences, Hacettepe University. (May 15 - September 31, 2026). Conversations-for-Learning in L2: A Longitudinal Study of Interactional Competence in a Speaking Club. Grant funding: Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Türkiye (TUBITAK).