Brózik-Piniel Katalin

Katalin Piniel is an assistant professor at the Department of English Applied Linguistics at Eötvös University, Budapest, where she obtained her PhD in Language Pedagogy. She is particularly interested in conducting research on the dynamic interrelationship of individual differences in foreign language learning, with a special focus on emotion, including language anxiety. Recently, she took part in a research project exploring high school students’ emotions, motivation, and autonomy in their English classes both at macro and micro levels. Currently she is involved in a research project scrutinizing the Hungarian advanced level final school leaving examination in English. She is an associate editor of the Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching journal. Her publications include a recently published volume entitled Investigating Language Anxiety: Lessons for research into Individual differences published by Springer and various co-authored papers in journals such as Language Learning and Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching.