Prof. Jacqueline Żammit

Speech Title: Humanising AI: Language Learning, Learner Agency and Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Intelligent Technologies

University of Malta

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Jacqueline Żammit is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Malta, specialising in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, and the pedagogy of Maltese as a foreign and second language. Her research interests include multilingualism, artificial intelligence, immersive technologies, intercultural competence, and computer-assisted language learning. She has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, monographs, edited volumes, and book chapters. She serves as an Associate (Handling) Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), coordinates the Maltese pedagogy programme, supervises postgraduate research, and contributes to national and international projects developing innovative digital language-learning resources.