Montserrat Forcadell Guinjoan

Montserrat Forcadell Guinjoan holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-UPF, Barcelona) and an MA in Theoretical Linguistics (University of Reading, England). Her BA is in English and German Philology (Universitat de Barcelona-UB). 

She is currently a full-time lecturer at Universitat de Barcelona. She is currently interested in how to tackle marked structures which are contrastive in English and Catalan in a university teaching context so that students might have a better understanding and command of the strategies at play in the expression of informational issues.

Her main academic fields of interest are: Pragmatics (information packaging), Prosody (intonation patterns/sentence accent), and Applied Linguistics (contrastive English/Catalan marked structures).