Izaskun Molás Olalde

Izaskun Molás Olalde is a PhD student in the doctoral program of Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts at the University of the Basque Country. She graduated with honors from the University of the Basque Country, earning a bachelor’s degree in Primary Education (2021) and a M.A in Psychodidactics (2022). Given her own bilingual family background and the distinctive opportunity of studying at Lesley University and collaborating with the bilingual Amigos School in Boston, her interests gradually focused on language learning. This environment sparked a natural curiosity to understand how languages and cultures coexist and influence the educational process—an intereset that now guides her research and academic commitment.

Her research interests are focused mostly on multilingual education and language acquisition in Primary Education. Her doctoral thesis, directed by Dr. María Orcasitas-Vicandi, Dr. Andrea Perales-Fernández-de-Gamboa, and Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo, focuses on the impact of an innovative multilingual and multimodal methodology, that enhances reading and writing acquisition, on students’ literacy development in Basque, Spanish and English. She has already participated in conferences such as “TEFL9 Conference: Innovation in English language education – Adapting pedagogies to meet modern challenges” or “IAFOR The Asian Conference on Education 2024”. In the near future, during her doctoral research stay, she will be working with Dr. Shannon Bishop-Swart from Stellenbosch University, inmersing herself in the uniquely multilingual and multicultural environment of South Africa.

Research Interests

Multilingual Education, Multicultural Contexts, Language Acquisition, Minority Languages.