Working on

• Project: Nederlands voor alle kinderen, developing a new tool for assessing L2 development in newcomers. M. Pinto & S. Zuckerman (p.i)
• Project: ERC-Microcontact, mapping and analyzing the heritage language of Italian migrants in America. R. D’Alessandro (p.i.)
• Project: Bidirectional Storytelling, Community Engaged Learning project for BA-course: Podcast as a medium of exchanging learning practices of Italian L+ between students of Italian at Utrecht University and immigrants in Italy learning Italian at the Centro Astalli in Rome. M. Jansen & M. Pinto (p.i.)
• L2 acquisition of definite determiners in Italian: two theoretical studies on syntax, semantics and discourse-pragmatics of plural noun phrases in Italian L2.

Relevant other positions

• Dissemination activities (presentations/workshop) about growing up with two languages for bilingual families and professionals.

Teaching

• BA Meertaligheid: Taal en talen in een wereld vol verschillen.
• BA Italiano: dal significato alla forma.
• BA Language Acquisition & Language Structure.
• BA Lingue e culture a contatto.
• BA Migrazioni al plurale.
• BA Fondamenti di linguistica italiana.
• MA Plurilinguismo e interculturalità.

Three relevant publications

Schuiringa, M., & Pinto, M. (2017). Dirlo o non dirlo?: Discrezione in situazioni imbarazzanti nella cultura italiana e in quella olandese. Incontri, 31(2), 28-44.

Pinto, M., & Zuckerman, S. (2019). Coloring Book: A new method for testing language comprehension. Behavior research methods, 51(6), 2609-2628.

Pinto, M. (2020). Advising Parents on Bilingual Education of Their Children. In Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Organizations (pp. 77-82). Routledge.