Department: Filologías Modernas

Area: English Philology

Research group: Grupo de Lingüística Aplicada de la Universidad de La Rioja

Email: almudena.fernandez@unirioja.es

Personal web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Almudena-Fernandez-F...

Doctor by the Universidad de La Rioja with the thesis Clil in spanish education proposal of a framework for implementing a technology-enhanced model of content and language integrated learning 2008. Supervised by Dr. Rosa María Jiménez Catalán.

Almudena Fernández-Fontecha is associate professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Her current research interests include L2 vocabulary learning and the study of learners’ variables, such as creativity. Prior lines of research have addressed the study of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and the use of multimodal materials for scaffolding second language learning.