EDUCATION

 

 

 

 

 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dates:7/05/2013

 

Title of qualification awarded: Doctoral degree

 

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered: Applied Linguistics, Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Blended Learning in Foreign Language Education, Foreign Language Teachers' training in Blended Learning settings, Lifelong Learning, Adult's Learning, Work-based Learning.

 

Title of the Ph.D. dissertation: Web 2.0 - New era of Internet tools in learning and teaching Italian as a foreign language: Proposal of the Collaborative Blended Language Learning Model (CBLLM) and the WebQuest 2.0 foreign language scenarios.

 

Name and type of organisation providing education and training: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Italian Language and Literature, School of Philosophy (www.uoa.gr/) Panepistimioupoli Zografou, 157 84 Athens (Greece)

 

 

 

Dates:10/10/2003 - 19/06/2004

 

Title of qualification awarded: Certificate of Specialization in Teaching Languages Assisted by New Technologies, CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)

 

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered: The 400 hours seminar covered many TEL topics such as Interactive and Collaborative Learning, On line Assessment, Multimedia creation etc.

 

Title of the CALL Certificate Dissertation: Creation of FLL educational software: “The Italian language classroom”.

I developed an interesting demo cd with suggestions of lesson plans based on new communicative methodologies created with multimedia software/authoring tools such as Director MX, Hot potatoes.

 

Name and type of organisation providing education and training: University of Macedonia (www.uom.gr), 156, Εgnatia, 1591, 54006 Thessaloniki (Greece)

 

 

 

Dates: 24/09/2001 - 20/12/2003

 

Title of qualification awarded: MASTER In Didactics and Promotion of the Italian Language and Culture to Foreigners

 

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered: The 2 years Master Course covered a big variety of topics related to Italian Instruction in cultural prospective, Introduction to Language Education, Cultural promotion, Assessment, ICT & Language Instruction, Media and Communication etc.

 

Title of Master Dissertation: New Technologies in Language Learning & Teaching: An attempt of exploration and categorization of all the websites and services that could be useful in the Italian language classroom in “dedicated” and “not dedicated” to FLL web resources: Proposals of lesson plans based on selected on line resources.

 

Name and type of organisation providing education and training: University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy. Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio (www.unive.it),1454, Dorsoduro, 30125 Venice (Italy).

 

 

 

Dates: 01/10/1994 - 09/11/1999

 

Title of qualification awarded: Bachelor on Italian Philology and Literature

 

Principal subjects / occupational skills covered: The programme of 8 semesters covered a great variety of topics such as Italian Language of 8 levels, French (2 Levels) and English Languages of (2 Levels), Translation of Italian scientific texts, Didactics of Languages, Italian Literature, Italian Art, Italian History, Sociology etc.

 

Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Italian Language & Culture.(www.auth.gr) University Campus, 541 24 Thessaloniki (Greece)