Dr Helena Roquet works at the Applied Linguistics Department at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), and at the Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literatures and English Studies at Universitat de Barcelona, where she is a Lecturer of Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching both at graduate and postgraduate levels. She completed her PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and defended her doctoral thesis, The Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language: Integrating Content and Language in Mainstream Education, in July 2011. Her PhD dissertation was recognised with an Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Helena is a member of the official GRAM (Research Group on Multilingual Acquisition) research group at the UIC and has participated in several research projects funded at national and international levels. Her main research interests lie within the field of second and third language acquisition and teaching, multilingualism, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education). Her articles have been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals like International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Applied Linguistics.