Speakers

Prof. Dr. Margarita Vinagre is Full Professor of Applied Linguistics at Autónoma University of Madrid. Her main research interests are the integration of technologies in the foreign language classroom, computer-mediated communication, and the implementation of virtual exchanges for the development of transversal competences. She has published widely on these topics and she is a member of the Editorial Boards of the EUROCALL Review and CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) journals. She is currently the coordinator of the TELNETCOM research group on the integration of virtual exchange for competence and skills development in higher education, with 22 participating researchers from 6 countries. 

Dr.  Anna Nicolaou is an English Language Instructor at the Language Centre of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). She holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin focusing on intercultural education and global competence learning through virtual exchange, a Master’s degree in English Language Studies and Methods from Warwick University, and a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Athens. Her research interests include intercultural education, virtual exchange, multilingualism, internationalisation, immersive technologies, and computer-assisted language learning. She has published scientific articles in internationally acclaimed journals and has participated in various research projects and academic conferences.

Prof. Dr. Angelica Galante is an Assistant Professor in Second Language Education at McGill University. Her research examines language pedagogy in multilingual settings, social factors in language development, and plurilingual and pluricultural competence. Dr. Galante is the Founder and Director of the Plurilingual Lab, where she conducts research and disseminates results, and mobilizes innovative pedagogy used in her studies which can be adapted and applied in the language classroom. She is the recipient of several awards, including the 2019 Pat Clifford Award for exceptional leadership in educational research in Canada and the 2021 Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz Award for Excellence in Teaching at McGill University. 

Enzo Boggio-López is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). He holds a bachelor's degree in English Studies, a master's degree in Teacher Training, and has pursued different language courses at the Official School of Languages. Regarding his teaching profile, he has worked as an English teacher for children, adolescents and adults in private academies; at university level, he has been in charge of the subjects Written English: Basic Texts, and ICTs Applied to the English Language within the Bachelor's Degree in English Studies. Regarding his research profile, his interests are ICTs applied to the learning-teaching of English and multimodal discourse analysis. He has also collaborated on the TEMPLATE project (Technology-Mediated PLurilingual Activities for (language) Teacher Education) during the last 3 years. He is currently writing his PhD thesis on the pedagogic discourse of EMI (English Medium of Instruction) lecturers in higher education.

Anita Cvetkovic Kienle is a research associate in the EU project TEMPLATE  at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany) and a PhD candidate at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). She has been teaching EFL and ESP in different European countries for over 10 years. Her academic work mostly focuses on the role of technology in language learning and teaching with telecollaboration. She is currently working as a ESP teacher at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt (Germany).

Hilal Şahin is a PhD candidate at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. She studied primary school education with specialization in the subjects English and German. Her PhD dissertation explores the professional identity development of future English teachers. She is currently working for the TEMPLATE project as a research associate. 

Andrea Kratzer works full-time at the University of Education in Schwäbisch Gmünd. As part of the FuN-Kolleg, she is doing her doctorate on the topic of teacher education and digital media in the heterogeneous EFL primary classroom. She also teaches at the English Department. She studied English and French at the University of Heidelberg (first state examination), and she has 7 years of teaching experience. During her time as a teacher, she was keen to to work with digital media in the classroom and to educate herself further in this area. Her students won third place in 2017 with a podcast and first place in 2019 with a crime film at the Bundeswettbewerb Fremdsprachen (national foreign language competition) in Baden-Württemberg.