Christine Appel

Christine Appel holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, University of Dublin. She lectured at Trinity College, University of Dublin,  and Dublin City University in the early stages of her academic career. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, where she coordinates EFL courses and online teacher training programmes, including courses in Primary and Secondary English Education programmes and the Master’s in Technology-enhanced language teaching and learning.  

Her research interests include sociocultural approaches to language learning, tandem language learning, Intercultural competences,  computer-mediated communication, Oral production and speaking interaction online, teacher training, online collaboration, and gamification. She has led several European projects, including SpeakApps and eQTeL, along with innovation initiatives such as tandemMOOC. She is currently co-PI of the InteracTIC project.