Innovation in Language Learning

Dr. Anna Slatinská serves as a Senior Lecturer at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, teaching at the Faculty of Arts (Department of English and American Studies). Her expansive interests and expertise include: English Language Teaching Methodology; Intercultural communication; Developing Global Skills: Language, Culture, Identity, and Cultural Heritage; and Service-Learning (as part of Erasmus project). She holds a Master of Art in Foreign Language and Cultures | English Language and Literature: History (program) and PhD in Foreign Languages and Cultures | European Cultural Studies (program) – both from Matej Bel University. Dr. Slatinská is working with the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora’s Global Leadership Council, in which she is a founding member, to develop the IMID’s flagship 4-day global conference that will be hosted by Matej Bel University at their venue in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in fall 2023. She is leading efforts in Slovakia for the planning of the cultural componet of the conference including cultural and museum tours aligned to the conference’s objectives.