Festival of Social Sciences

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Dr Annamaria Pinter
In this podcast Annamaria, an expert in language acquisition and young learners, talks about some of the research into children learning English. Do children really learn languages faster than adults? Is it a good idea to send your children for classes at the age of 3? She discusses these and other matters.

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Dr Keith Richards
Keith Richards is a leading researcher in research methodologies in ELT. In this interview he talks about his research, publications and latest book.

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Dr Richard Smith

Richard Smith runs the ELT archive at the Centre of Applied Linguistics. Here he talks about the collection, that dates back over a 100 years

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Dr Ema Ushioda

Ema Ushioda is a leading researcher in the area of motivation in language learning. Here she talks about the way that motivation is changing the impact “pressure” is having on language learners.

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