Laura Di Ferrante is a linguist and an expert in teaching Italian and English as foreign languages. Co-editor in chief of E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Milan. Her research interests focus on Small Talk, AAC Communication, Workplace Discourse, Language of Advertising, Cross-cultural Marketing, Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, and L1/L2 Pragmatics.