![]() PRESIDENT Email: raphael.berthele@unifr.ch RAPHAEL BERTHELE is Professor in multilingualism at the University of Fribourg/Freiburg (Switzerland). He studied in Fribourg and Tübingen and has held different positions as researcher and academic teacher in Fribourg, Berkeley and Berne. He currently directs the MA programmes in multilingualism studies and in foreign language didactics and co-founded the Fribourg Institute of Multilingualism in 2008. His research interests cover different areas from cognitive to social aspects of multilingualism (semantic and constructional convergence in multilinguals, receptive multilingualism, transfer of literacy skills, language learning aptitude, and language policy). |
![]() PAST PRESIDENT Email: pilar.safont@uji.es PILAR SAFONT is Professor in applied linguistics and multilingualism and Vice-rector of languages promotion and equalities at the University Jaume I in Castelló (Spain). Her research focuses on the development of pragmatic competence in learners of English as a third language, the analysis of factors affecting L3 pragmatics and early multilingual pragmatics. She has carried out various studies on the acquisition and use of specific pragmatic formulas by third language learners of English. She has authored and co-edited a number of volumes on classroom discourse, the acquisition of speech acts, instructional and multilingual pragmatics. She is currently working on the sociopragmatics of academic language development in multilingual learning environments. |
VICE-PRESIDENT Email: simone.pfenninger@sbg.ac.at
SIMONE E. PFENNINGER is Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Salzburg. Her principal research areas are multilingualism, psycholinguistics and variationist SLA, especially in regard to quantitative approaches and statistical methods and techniques for language application in education. Her work is published in several books, edited volumes and in journals such as Second Language Research and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Recent books include Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning: Revisiting the Age Factor (2017, co-authored, Multilingual Matters), The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives (2017, co-edited, CUP), and Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics (2017, co-edited, Multilingual Matters). She is co-editor of the Second Language Acquisition book series for Multilingual Matters and statistical advisor to the EuroSLA Studies book series.
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![]() SECRETARY Email: g.j.poarch@rug.nl GREG POARCH is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Culture of the University of Groningen. He studied in Darmstadt and has held various positions as researcher and lecturer in Frankfurt, Toronto, Tübingen, and Münster. His research interests cover psycholinguistic, cognitive, and social aspects of multilingualism (cross-linguistic interaction and cognitive control in multilinguals, the multilingual mental lexicon, and the implications of societal multilingualism for language education). His son Loïc grew up with three languages (Dutch, English, & German). |
TREASURER Email: nighting@uji.es RICHARD NIGHTINGALE is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I, where he teaches sociolinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is also co-director of the English Language Teaching and Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts (MELACOM) MA programme. Richard has published research on topics relating to sociolinguistics, multilingualism, pragmatics, and affective/contextual factors, and has presented his work at numerous international conferences. |
![]() MEMBER AT LARGE Email: a.otwinowska@uw.edu.pl AGNIESZKA OTWINOWSKA-KASZTELANIC is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research involves language education, childhood bilingualism and cross-linguistic issues in multilingualism. She currently coordinates a project entitled "Orthographic similarity of words and learner's meta-awareness in acquiring foreign vocabulary" (financed by the Polish National Science Centre). She is a teacher trainer and an author of several course book series for teaching English in Polish schools. Her recent books include a monograph "Cognate vocabulary in language acquisition and use: Attitudes, awareness, activation" (2015, Multilingual Matters) and a volume "Teaching and learning in multilingual contexts: Sociolinguistic and educational perspectives" (co-edited, 2014, Multilingual Matters). She has co-organised three international conferences, including the 7th Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism in 2011. |
![]() MEMBER AT LARGE Email: p.lorette@uni-mannheim.dePERNELLE LORETTE is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics of the University of Mannheim, Germany. Her primary research area relates to the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication of emotions. Her research interests also include sociopragmatics, affective factors in SLA and phonetic aspects of language contact. She teaches introductory and more advanced courses in linguistics and research methods to both BA and MA students. |
![]() MEMBER AT LARGE - CO-OPTED MEMBER (2018 IAM Conference) Email: jorgepinto@letras.ulisboa.pt
JORGE PINTO is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. His main research interests are on foreign languages didactics and on acquisition of Portuguese as a second or a third language. He's also Co-coordinator of the Portuguese Foreign Language courses at the Faculty and Co-director of the Portuguese Language Centre at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. |
MEMBER AT LARGE - CO-OPTED MEMBER (2022 IAM Conference) Email: stela.letica@gmail.com STELA LETICA KREVELJ is Assistant Professor at the English Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is teaching MA courses on Multilingualism, Bilingualism and Second/Third language acquisition. She has been a collaborator on several international projects related to psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism, second / third language acquisition, and methodological and ethical issues in applied linguistics research. |