Biography
Dr Annamaria Pinter is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. She lectures at Masters and Doctoral levels and supervises post-graduate students in the area of teaching languages to children. She has published widely in the area of teaching English to young learners. She is the author of Teaching Young Language Learners Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers, Oxford University Press (2nd edition, 2017) and Children Learning Second Languages, Palgrave Macmillan (2011). She is also an editor of an e-book series entitled Teaching English to Young Learners. She sits on the Advisory Board of the ELT Journal and she is a member of the ELT expert panel of Oxford University Press. Dr Pinter has published extensively in ELT/Applied Linguistics journals, has written numerous book chapters and has given many plenary talks worldwide in the broad area of teaching young language learners. Dr Pinter’s research interests include all aspects of second and foreign language learning in childhood, inclusive and participatory research methods with children and facilitating children to become researchers. She is also interested in language teacher development, teacher research, task-based learning and teaching, materials development and identity development in bilingual children.
Keynote Presentation (2018) | Children Working as Co-researchers and Researchers – Possibilities and Challenges
