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Alja Lipavic Oštir is a full professor of German at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. Her research areas are: multilingualism, sociolinguistics, migration, linguistic contacts between German and Slovene, CLIL. She is the author of several scientific monographs, chapters in scientific monographs, articles and conference papers. As a lecturer, she has visited the University of Bern in Switzerland, the University of Vilnius in Lithuania and Erasmus exchanges at a number of universities in different countries. Since 2012, he has also been lecturing on postgraduate programs in German studies at the University of Sv. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia, where she is also a doctoral mentor. She is a leader of international and national research projects and a collaborator in various projects. She is also active in language and school policy in Slovenia.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: alja.lipavic@um.si

Karmen Pižorn is Full Professor of English in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include young EFL learners, language assessment and evaluation, CLIL, learning and teaching English to learners with special needs, pluri/multilingualism and interculturality, etc. She is the author of several research articles, monograph chapters and monographs. She has been a guest lecturer at many universities around the world (UK, Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Finland, etc.) and at international conferences (Australia, USA, UK, Finland, Norway, Germany, France, etc.). She has also been coordinating national and international research projects and collaborating in various other research projects, e.g. Languages Matter, Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in All Classrooms, Introducing Foreign Languages into the First Triad of the Primary School, etc.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: karmen.pizorn@pef.uni-lj.si