Description
Antoinette Camilleri Grima is a professor of applied linguistics at the Depatment of Languages and Humanities, University of Malta. She taught several courses in Maltese as a Foreign Language (MFL) to employees of the European Union institutions, and authored two radio series in MFL for Campusfm. She co-ordinated Council of Europe workshops in the area of modern languages, specifically on whole school policy, learner autonomy, and intercultural competence. She is a co-author with Michel Candelier and other scholars of the European document A Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures (FREPA/CARAP). She edited a Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Volume 16, Number 5), and two Special Issues of the Malta Review of Educational Research (Volume 9/1 and 10/2). She has published many textbooks, books, and book chapters in Malta and abroad, and numerous articles in internationally refereed journals on language education, bilingual education, intercultural competence, learner autonomy, and Maltese sociolinguistics. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices.
“The Council of Europe promotes the wider study of its smaller languages as one of the glories of European culture, especially when, like Maltese at the crossroads of Mediterranean communication, they demonstrate the value of the cultural crossfertilisation of languages. Antoinette Camilleri Grima’s deep knowledge of the Maltese language in its sociocultural context, and her experience with up-to-date teaching methods, have equipped her to produce an excellence course in Maltese as a Foreign Language. It is widely welcome.”
Prof. John Trim – former director of the Modern Languages Project, Council of Europe
