Dr Helena Roquet is the Director of the Institute for Multilingualism and Applied Linguistics Department at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), where she is a Lecturer of Foreign Language Acquisition both at graduate and postgraduate levels. She completed her PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the UPF 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, 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.