Dr Sabela Melchor-Couto is a Juan de la Cierva researcher at LVTC. She has extensive experience in the British Higher Education sector, having worked as a Senior Lecturer at University of Roehampton (London) and as a Teaching Fellow at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) from 2005 until 2018. Sabela’s research activity focuses on technology for language learning (intercultural virtual exchanges), affective variables including motivation, anxiety and self-efficacy beliefs. She has participated as one of the Consortium partners in two EU-funded projects on intercultural virtual exchanges: TeCoLa (2015-2019) and TILA (2012-2015).