Joint-PhD at La Sapienza University of Rome (PhD in Linguistics) and the University of São Paulo in Brazil (PhD in Italian Language, Culture and Literature); starting in 2016, in progress.
Bachelor in Communication Science at the University of Bologna, 2002; score: 30/30 cum laude.
Master in Didactics of Italian as a Foreign Language, University for Foreigners of Perugia, 2009; score: 30/30 cum laude.
Teacher of Italian Language and Culture at the Language Center of the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) and the Italian-Brazilian Cultural Center Dante Alighieri in Curitiba (Brazil), as well as in several private language schools.
Interest areas: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semiotics, Language and Gender, Translation.
Thesis title: "Clitic pronouns in written output by Brazilian learners of Italian as a Second Language: Error Analysis and Interlanguage description"
Brazilian supervisor: Prof. Elisabetta Antonietta Rita Maria Carmela Santoro (University of São Paulo)
Italian supervisor: Prof. Paola Maria Giunchi (La Sapienza University)
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