Christine Appel

Principal investigator of  Interactic. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, University of Dublin and has been involved in the teaching of languages, teacher training and research in CALL for over 25 years. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), where she coordinates EFL courses, the tandem MOOC and online teacher training programmes, including Primary and Secondary English Education programmes. Her research interests include tandem language learning, CMC, oral production and speaking interaction online, teacher training, online collaboration, and gamification.