Dr Laia Benavent-Llinares Department of Modern LanguagesAssistant Language Tutor in Catalan and Spanish Contact details Emaill.benavent-llinares@bham.ac.uk AddressDepartment of Modern LanguagesUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Qualifications PhD in Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies (Universitat de Barcelona) MA in Advanced Studies in Catalan Linguistics (Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) BA in Catalan Philology (Universitat de Barcelona) Teaching I teach Catalan (all levels) and Spanish Language. Research My research focuses on sociolinguistics, more specifically on language standardization, grammatical codification, prescriptivism, grammaticography and linguistic ideologies.