Mercedes Rabadán Zurita is a researcher at the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Centre (CLLC) of the University of Aveiro. She concluded her PhD Degree in Language Teaching and Western literary canon at the University of Huelva (2013) with the thesis entitled “Motivation, anxiety and self-concept in learning Spanish as a foreign language”. She has two postgraduations in Teacher Training at the University of Barcelona and the University of Nebrija. She holds a degree in Romance Philology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Mercedes Rabadán is an Assistant Professor at the University of Algarve and is currently part of the Council and Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences (FCHS). She holds the position of President of the Pedadogical Council of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. She has published several papers in international indexed journals (i.e.Revista de Estudios e Investigación en Psicología y Educación, Estudios sobre Educación), international book chapter (i.e. Octaedro, Ministerio de Educación y formación profesional – España) and book (Octaedro). Peer esteem indicators include organisation of international conferences (i.e. III International Congress of the Portuguese Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages in Higher Education, the International Interassociations Conference on History of Language Teaching) and seminars (i.e. Spanish Language, Culture and Teaching Seminar – University of Coimbra). She has participated in two international research projects (Spain, Greece). Her research interests include affective factors and foreign language learning, active methodologies and the application of Artificial Intelligence in foreign language teaching.