Anna Ghimenton has explored different facets of the social dimensions underpinning bilingual acquisition and socialisation. She started her career using mainly quantitative methods of data analysis. She then developed skills in conducting ethnographical investigations collecting and analyzing interactional data enabling her to adopt ethnographically informed approaches to interaction and bilingual acquisition. This has led to mobility across thematic areas and also across methodological approaches: Adopting both quantitative to qualitative approaches through an ethnographic perspective has allowed her to embrace both the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic dimensions of language development and education. In particular, her research has focussed on the processes of bilingual socialisation in diverse sociolinguistic contexts. Parallel to this research, she has tapped into minority language policies, education and revitalisation.