Dr Ana Inés Salvi

Profile

Ana is a Lecturer in Language and Academic Skills for Science and Engineering at the Hainan Joint Educational Institute in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, she held teaching and leadership roles in education at the University of East Anglia, UCL Institute of Education, the University of Leeds, the University of Warwick, Coventry University, and the University of Sunderland in the UK, as well as in China and Argentina. She holds a PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. She is passionate about education, and her research interests include learner-centred, bottom-up, and contextually appropriate approaches to teaching, learning, and research. She is Co-Convener of the Research Network on Learner Autonomy (ReNLA) within the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA).

Teaching

QHF3004 Technical Language and Academic Skills I

QHF3005 Technical Language and Academic Skills II

QHF5001 Personal Development Plan and Entrepreneurial Skills (UG Year 3)

Research

Publications

Salvi, A. I., Costantino, A., Kay, A. & Underwood, J. with Ashwell, T. 2025. An Interview with the Co-Editors of Issue 10 of The Learner Development Journal. Learning Learning, 32(2). LD SIG website at https://ld-sig.org/learning-learning/spring-2025-volume-32-no-2/.

Kuchah, K., Salama, A. and Salvi, A.I. 2022. Teachers Researching their Classroom Questions: Reports from Africa. Faversham: IATEFL.

Salvi, A.I. 2020. A practitioner-research study of criticality development in academic English language. In A. Simpson and F. Dervin (Eds.), The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research: Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods Series. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Salvi, A. I. 2018. Exploring Criticality in Teaching English for Academic Purposes via Pedagogy for Autonomy, Practitioner Research, and Arts-enriched Methods. PhD Thesis. Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Salvi, A. I. 2017. Why don't we bring exploratory practice and learner autonomy together? – a story of integration. In J. Hanks. Exploratory Practice in Language Teaching: Puzzling About Principles and Practices. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Salvi, A. I. with Wang, C., Li, Y., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Ye, S., Zhao, Y., Qiu, K., and Cui, W. 2016. Involving EAP students in sharing their educational experience and development via arts-enriched methods. Special Issue ‘Innovative Writing in English Language Teacher Education and Development’, English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Journal, 20, 9-23.

Supervision

I am available to supervise research projects related to (language) education, professional development, practitioner research, learner-centred pedagogy, innovation and criticality in education, and learner and teacher autonomy.