Laura Portolés Falomir is an Assistant Professor and member of the LAELA research group at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. She is also co-coordinator of the English Language Teaching and Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts (MELACOM) MA programme. Laura finished her PhD in Applied Linguistics in December 2013. Her research interests include third language acquisition, affective factors, early pragmatic development and multilingual education. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on those topics. Laura has recently co-authored a special issue on Multilingualism with Prof. Pilar Safont (Caplletra 2020) and on CLIL with Otilia Martí (ELT 2019). She has also published an international volume entitled Multilingualism and Very Young Learners (De Gruyter, 2015), which received the 2016 outstanding book award (junior researchers category) from AESLA association.