Professor of English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Barcelona in Spain, she was coordinator of the Barcelona Age Factor (BAF) Project. Her recent publications have focused on the role of age and context in foreign language learning, young learners, and individual differences. She is the editor of the Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning volume (Multilingual Matters 2006), and contributor in the EUROSLA Yearbook (Vol. 12, 2012), which includes contributions in second language research with a genuinely European flavour.
Invited Speakers
Carmen Muñoz
Professor of English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Barcelona in Spain, she was coordinator of the Barcelona Age Factor (BAF) Project. Her recent publications have focused on the role of age and context in foreign language learning, young learners, and individual differences. She is the editor of the Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning volume (Multilingual Matters 2006), and contributor in the EUROSLA Yearbook (Vol. 12, 2012), which includes contributions in second language research with a genuinely European flavour.more
Marianne Nikolov
Professor and Head of the Department of English Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs in Hungary. Her research has focused on young language learners, adolescents and adults in case studies and large-scale surveys. A founding member of IATEFL Hungary, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in TEFL/TESOL and has participated in and/or coordinated several European projects, such as EARLI (2001, 2007), TEMOLAYOLE (2004-2007 ECML).more
Lucilla Lopriore
A faculty member in the Department of Linguistics at ROMA TRE University, her research interests include ELL, Foreign Language Assessment and Evaluation, CDA and Corpus Linguistics. She teaches English Linguistics at undergraduate level and TEFL and Foreign Language Assessment at postgraduate level. In the 90s she was president of TESOL Italy and later on the TESOL International Board of Directors. Editor of TESOL Italy’s journal Perspectives, she was recently involved with the ELLiE Project as Country Manager.more
Cor van der Meer
Researcher at the Frisian Academy of Letters and Director of the Mercator Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning. He is co-author of the report on “the Development of Minimum Standards on Language Education in Regional and Minority languages” and a member of the Civil Society Platform, which has been founded by the General Directorate of Education and Culture of the European Commission, eager to promote multilingualism and foreign language education within the European Union.more
Angelika Kubanek
Professor of English Language Teaching Methodology at Eichstaett University in Bavaria, she is specialized in the area of language teaching young learners, and has conducted and co-managed several studies on young learners. She has worked with international research groups and researchers, as well as with German EFL trainees and teachers. She is on the editorial board of the journal Frühes Deutsch (Goethe Institut/ W. Bertelsmann), which addresses teachers of young learners of German as foreign and second languagemore
