Júlia Barón is currently a lecturer at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the GRAL research group, which investigates different aspects of second language acquisition. Her research focuses on pragmatics and more specifically on interlanguage pragmatics. The objectives of her studies are to examine how learners of a foreign language acquire and develop the pragmatics of the target language. Other fields of study related to pragmatics that she is interested in are pragmatic transfer, the relationship between task complexity and interaction, and the pragmatics of interaction.

Her contact details are the following:

Dr Júlia Barón
Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos
Facultat de Filologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona
Tel.: +34 934 037 217
E-mail: juliabaron@ub.edu