Team

Maura Cruz Enríquez’s research focuses on tenses, Spanish in contact with French, and the acquisition of Spanish as a second and heritage language.

Maura Cruz Enríquez is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Social sciences, humanities and Communication at TÉLUQ University. Her research interests mainly focus on tenses. In particular, she has developed a model that collects, in narrative functions, the meanings of tenses and proposes a methodology to use this model when analyzing a corpus of narratives. She is also interested in the study of Spanish in contact with French, as well as in the acquisition of Spanish as a second and heritage language.

Nancy Gagné is interested in the acquisition of second languages by children and adults in various contexts (school, immersion, intensification and stay abroad).

Nancy Gagné is Professor and Chair of the Department of social Sciences, Humanities and Communication at TÉLUQ University. Holder of a PhD in Second Language Didactics from Laval University, she conducts research in second language acquisition by both children and adults in various contexts (school, immersion, intensification and stay abroad).

Anna Joan Casademont investigates the acquisition and teaching of second and additional languages (especially Catalan) in various contexts, as well as terminology and the relationships between syntax and semantics.

Anna Joan Casademont is Professor of linguistics in the Department of Social Sciences, Humanities and Communication at TÉLUQ University. Holder of a PhD in Language Sciences and Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), her research interests focus on the acquisition and teaching of second and additional languages in various contexts (with a special interest in Catalan), as well as on the terminology and the relationships between syntax and semantics. She is also vice-president of the Toy Museum of Catalonia Foundation.

François Pichette’s research interests focus on the acquisition of second languages and language skills, especially on the detection of elements that generate test bias.

François Pichette is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Social Sciences, Humanities and Communication at TÉLUQ University. His research interests focus on the acquisition of second languages, with an emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and the assessment of language skills, especially on the detection of elements that generate biases in language testing.

Anahí Alba de la Fuente is Professor in the Department of World Literatures and Languages at the University of Montreal. Her main research interests focus on language acquisition, particularly the acquisition of Spanish as a first, second, and third language. Regarding the acquisition of the mother tongue, her research revolves around phenomena related to bilingual acquisition. In the case of the acquisition of second and third languages, her interest focuses especially on morphosyntax, using approaches from theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics.

Carme Bach is Serra Húnter Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Language Science at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). She is a member of the consolidated research group Gr@el on language learning and teaching, and dean of the Faculty of Translation and Language Science at UPF. Her research interests include language learning and teaching, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.

Consolidated Research Group Gr@el on learning and teaching Languages

François Lareau is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Translation at the University of Montreal, where he teaches semantics and computational linguistics. He is also Director of the Sens-Texte Linguistics Observatory, which brings together some thirty researchers. A graduate in Linguistics from the University of Montreal and Paris 7 University, he has worked as a researcher in the computer science departments of the University of Stuttgart, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and Macquarie University (Sydney). His research focuses on semantics, lexicology and automatic text generation.

Linguistics observatory Sens-Texte

Albert Morales Moreno is Permanent lecturer of linguistics and translation at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and a member of the consolidated research group GRIAL. He has taught at the Pompeu Fabra, Malaga, Trieste, Ca’ Foscari and Padua universities. From 2018 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the LETRINT project at the FTI of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His research interests include jurilinguistics, terminology and neology, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and language acquisition.

Consolidated research group GRIAL

Marie-Josée Olsen is Professor of communication at the Higher School of Media Art and Technology at the Cégep de Jonquière. She specializes in oral communication and trains the new generation to speak in the media. Graduated from TÉLUQ University with an M.A. in Education (with a specialization in teaching and school effectiveness), her research interests focus on accents and second language oral development.

Èric Viladrich Castellanas is Head of Catalan studies in the Department of World Literatures and Languages at the University of Montreal (UdeM). He holds a Master’s degree in Information technology (TÉLUQ-UQAM-ÉTS) and a Master’s degree in Catalan language, culture and literature (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). In addition, he is a techno-pedagogical advisor and is lecturer at UdM’s Language Center. Since 2020, he has led the h5p.cat project, a community of practice that aims to create, share and reuse interactive activities for teaching Catalan as a second and additional language.

According to tradition, Titivillus is a demon who works for Beelzebub, Lucifer or Satan. His main interests are planting errors in the work of copyists and reporting mispronounced, muttered, or omitted words in the liturgy. It appears cited for the first time in 1285 in the Tractatus de Penitentia by John of Wales, a Franciscan, Welsh philosopher and theologian.