Cristina Mallol has over twenty years’ experience teaching foreign languages (French and English) in primary and secondary education. For more than eight years, she was part of the senior leadership team in a secondary school, serving as Head of Studies and Headteacher, and previously as Head of the Foreign Languages Department. During this period, she led several international projects of major relevance to the school. She was awarded her PhD cum laude by the University of Vic (2006) with the thesis Learning English through Translation: The Affectivity and Diversity Approach. She has also completed three postgraduate programmes in language learning and educational leadership, and in 2018 obtained a Master’s degree in School Leadership for Educational Innovation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she achieved First Class Honours for her dissertation Inspiring School Climate and Transformational and Distributed Leadership: Towards Effective Knowledge Management. She has taught on the Secondary Education Master’s programme at Ramon Llull University and is a member of the CILCEAL research group “Interlinguistic and Intercultural Competence in Language Teaching and Learning” at the same university. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Girona, in the Department of Specific Didactics. Her main lines of research focus on internationalisation and language learning which takes into account linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as on exploring eclectic teaching methods that foster the engagement of every student in their own learning process.