Dr Joan-Tomàs Pujolà holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Language, Science and Mathematics Education of the Faculty of Education, University of Barcelona (UB). He also coordinates the teaching training programme concerning digital competence for Higher Education teachers at the Institute for Professional Development - ICE UB. 

He has been director of the Masters’ degree in Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (UB and Pompeu Fabra University) and co-director of the distance learning version of the same Masters’ degree (UNIBA-UB) for several years.  He also coordinated the PhD program in Language and Literature Didactics at the Faculty of Education and directed the teaching innovation group DIDAL_UB (Dynamics of Educational Innovation for Language Learning) at the UB for several years.  

He is currently the principal investigator of the research group realTIC (Research in teaching and learning languages with ICT). 

His research focuses on a variety of areas related to Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL): the educational potential of web 2.0; the multimodal aspects of internet communication and the power of images for metacognitive reflection on learning processes; the interactivity of teaching digital materials developed for language learning; the use of e-portfolios and feedback processes in distance language learning and teaching. He has been working on researching diverse active methodologies to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages such as the implementation of mobile learning, flipped classroom and gamification. Recently, he is interested in the potential of Generative AI-powered tools for language learning and teaching. 

He coordinated a telecollaboration project, first with the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: the RUG-UB Project (2013-2016), and since 2017 he has been coordinating the HI-UB Project with Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland). He has also coordinated different I+D projects related to the use of ICT for language teaching and also collaborated in the development of tandemMOOC at the UOC, which focuses on oral interaction in tandem in an online environment.

He actively collaborated on two Erasmus + projects. ProPIC focused on the use of technology for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and PRINTeL aimed to promote innovation in HE teaching and the development of teachers' digital competence in Armenian, Belarusian and Georgian Universities. He is currently the UB coordinator of the digiTED@EU project to promote and facilitate digitalisation among teacher educators in Europe.

He has been invited as a keynote speaker at several international conferences about the above TELL topics and has trained pre-service and in-service teachers on the use of technology for language teaching since 2001 in various educational contexts. He has directed 12 PhD theses from 2015 to 2023 concerning the use of technology in language teaching and learning, and reflective practice for language teacher education and more than 50 Masters theses.

2003 to present

Senior Lecturer 

Department of Language, Science and Mathematics Education, 

Faculty of Education

Universitat de Barcelona

Catalonia, Spain.                                                                                                                                                 

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