Pilar Safont, vice-rector for Linguistic Promotion and Equality of the UJI, is appointed president of the International Association of Multilingualism



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## Pilar Safont, vice-rector for Linguistic Promotion and Equality of the UJI, is appointed president of the International Association of Multilingualism

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The vice-rector for Linguistic Promotion and Equality of the Universitat Jaume I, Pilar Safont, has been named president of the International Association of Multilingualism, a world reference institution in the research of multilingualism that gathers numerous experts of international prestige coming from universities and research centres around the world.

Dr. Maria Pilar Safont Jordà is a tenured professor of sociolinguistics of the English language and a researcher of the Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of the English Language (LAELA) group. She has been coordinator of the Master's Degree in Teaching and Acquisition of the English Language in Multilingual Contexts of the UJI and director of the Multilingual Education Unit. Her research focuses on the development of pragmatic competence in people who learn English as a third language, the factors that influence the use of a third language and early multilingualism. Safont has conducted several studies on the acquisition and use of speech acts of English as a third language and has numerous publications, both articles in international journals and books.

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