Researchers

Josep M. Cots

Josep-Maria Cots is professor of English and applied linguistics in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lleida, where he teaches courses in pragmatics, discourse analysis, intercultural communication, multilingual education, and English language. His research focuses on applied discourse analysis, foreign language teaching and learning, multilingualism, and intercultural competence. He adopts a qualitative approach (sociolinguistic ethnography and discourse analysis) to study the development of multilingual and intercultural competence in the context of specific language policies in secondary and tertiary education. He has published 8 books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Josep Maria is co-director of a research team including 13 researchers and 5 trainee researchers and has been the lead researcher in several competitive funded research projects. Since 2002, his research has been awarded a total of 15 grants from different institutions. At the moment he supervises 5 PhD theses.