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Speakers

The European Conference on Language Learning 2018 (ECLL2018) is a multidisciplinary conference held concurrently with The European Conference on Education 2018 (ECE2018). Keynote, Featured and Spotlight Speakers will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds. Registration for either conference will allow participants to attend sessions in both.

This page provides information about presenters. For details of presentations and other programming, please visit the Programme page.

  • Professor Louise Archer
    Professor Louise Archer
    University College London (UCL), UK
  • Professor Anne Burns
    Professor Anne Burns
    University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Professor Mario Novelli
    Professor Mario Novelli
    University of Sussex, UK
  • Dr Annamaria Pinter
    Dr Annamaria Pinter
    University of Warwick, UK
  • Dr Björn Åstrand
    Dr Björn Åstrand
    Umeå University, Sweden

Previous Speakers

View details of speakers at past ECLL conferences via the links below.

Professor Louise Archer
University College London (UCL), UK

Biography

Professor Louise Archer holds the Karl Mannheim Chair of Sociology of Education at UCL’s Institute of Education, having previously been Professor of Sociology of Education at King's College London, where she was also the Director of the Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Her research focuses on educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to gender, ethnicity and social class.

A full bio will be updated shortly.

Keynote Presentation (2018) | "It's interesting, but not for me": understanding what shapes student subject choice and career aspirations age 10-18
Professor Anne Burns
University of New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Anne Burns is a Professor of TESOL at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia where she supervises doctoral students. She is also Professor Emerita at Aston University, Birmingham and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the Education University of Hong Kong. She has been a Visiting Professor at Unitec, New Zealand, the University of Stockholm, Sweden, Thammasat University, Thailand, the Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and Soka University, Japan.

She is the Academic Adviser (with Diane Larsen-Freeman) for the Applied Linguistics Series published by Oxford University Press, a Senior Consultant to National Geographic Learning, and Series Editor (with Jill Hadfield ) of the Routledge Research and Resources Series. In 2016, she was recognised as one of TESOL International’s ’50 at 50’ who have made a significant contribution to the field of English language teaching.

Anne’s research interests include action research, teaching speaking from a discourse/genre perspective, curriculum development, and language teacher education. Her book, Doing Action Research in the Language Classroom: A Guide for Practitioners (2010, Routledge), has been extensively used by English language teachers and teacher educators internationally. More recent publications include Teaching Speaking: A Holistic Approach (authored with Christine M. M. Goh, 2012, CUP), Second Language Assessment and Action Research (edited with Hanan Khalifa, 2018, CUP and Cambridge English), International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT (edited with Joseph Siegel, 2018, Palgrave Macmillan), and The Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language (edited with Jack C. Richards, 2018).

Keynote Presentation (2018) | Teacher tales: Context-embedded Language Teacher Professional Development
Professor Mario Novelli
University of Sussex, UK

Biography

Mario Novelli is Professor of the Political Economy of Education and Director of the Centre for International Education (CIE) at the University of Sussex. His research explores the relationship between education, globalisation and international development, with a specific focus on education delivery in conflict-affected contexts. Between 2010-2017 his research focused on issues related to the role of education in peacebuilding processes and he has worked closely with UNICEF on a series of projects. Between 2014-2017 he was Co-director of a major Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding, funded by UNICEF and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The consortium was led by the Universities of Amsterdam, Sussex and Ulster and carried out a multi-country study on the role of education in peacebuilding in South Africa, Pakistan, Uganda, Myanmar. He currently leads a 2-year (2018-2020) ESRC research programme exploring ‘Learning and Knowledge Production in Social Movements in Conflict Contexts: Case Studies from Turkey, Colombia, Nepal and South Africa’. He has carried out consultancies and research projects for a range of bi-lateral and international organisations including DFID, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNICEF, and UNESCO.

Keynote Presentation (2018) | Education, Conflict & Peacebuilding: Transcending Negative Peace, Peace Education & the Global Education Agenda
Dr Annamaria Pinter
University of Warwick, UK

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
Dr Björn Åstrand
Umeå University, Sweden

Biography

Dr Björn Åstrand is senior lecturer at Umeå University and former Dean of Teacher Education and Educational Sciences at Karlstad University (2014-17) in Sweden. Prior to that he was Dean of Faculty for Teacher Education (2005-08) and Dean of the School of Education (2008-11) at Umeå University. He is a certified secondary teacher but transferred and joined his current institution in early 1990s. He has been Vice Chair of the Swedish Association for Deans in Teacher Education and has chaired the network on Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE). He has been active in advancement of teacher education in specific areas such as promoting the scientific foundations for teacher education, internationalisation, quality assurance and use of ICT. In 2007 he was appointed to a governmental expert committee proposing a revised model for Swedish teacher education. Then in 2015 the government assigned him to an expert group for the improvement of the Swedish school system and since 2016 he has served as chair of a special inquiry on behalf of the Swedish government, investigating how schooling can be enhanced by improving conditions for teaching and school leadership. Dr Åstrand has undergraduate degree from Uppsala University and a teacher degree and PhD in history from Umeå University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and his current research is focused on educational history, comparative education, democracy and values and teacher education.

Keynote Presentation (2018) | Teaching in Times of Change – To Nurture the Essentials for a Thriving Education