Course team

University of Primorska

Silva Bratož

is Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska, Slovenia, where she teaches several courses in the area of English language teaching. She earned her PhD in linguistics from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She has researched and published in the area of foreign language teaching methodology for young learners, second language teaching and acquisition, cognitive linguistics, and metaphor theory. Her current research focuses on pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards multilingualism and foreign language learning, exploring the potential of classroom interaction in English and applying cognitive linguistics principles in SLT.

Alenka Kocbek

is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, where she teaches various courses in English for Education Studies, Translation Studies and Legal Translation. She is a practising translator and holds the licence of a certified court translator and interpreter of English, German and Italian. She has researched and published in the area of translation studies with special focus on legal translation and the role of translation in foreign/second language teaching. She is currently researching the function of translation/interpreting in multilingual and multicultural environments.

Anja Pirih

is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, Slovenia. She teaches courses in the area of English language and teaching. She earned her PhD in linguistics from Ca’Foscari University, Italy. Her research and publications are mostly in the area of reading motivation, extensive reading, foreign language teaching methodology for young learners and multilingual practices. Her current research focuses on the impact of extensive reading on EFL reading motivation and different plurilingual and multilingual approaches.

Mojca Žefran

is a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska, Slovenia, where she teaches several courses in the area of English language and teaching. She earned her PhD in education studies from the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska. She has researched and published in the area of foreign language teaching methodology for young learners and second language teaching and acquisition. Her current research covers individual differences in foreign language learning, especially motivation, foreign language learning anxiety and attitudes towards foreign language learning and multilingualism.

University of Bolzano

Liliana Dozza

is Full Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano. She is the current President of the Master of Science in Primary Education, Italian section. She also coordinated the PhD course in “General and Social Pedagogy and Education” (cycles XXIV, XXV, XXVI) and is currently a member of the PhD Faculty Committee for doctoral awards in “General and Social Pedagogy and Education” at the University of Bolzano. She is co-Director of the peer-reviewed Journal Pedagogia più Didattica (Trento Erickson). She is Director of the peer reviewed series Educazione per tutta la vita (Milano, Franco Angeli) and Educazione Terra Natura (Bergamo: Zeroseiup), and a member of the Scientific Committees of the peer-reviewed journals: Studi sulla Formazione FUB Journals (Florence); Pedagogia (Progedit, Bari); Intercultura (Erickson, Trento); Riforma della Scuola (online).

Renata Zanin

(principal investigator unibz) – PhD (Catholic University of Milan) is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Education, in German Language and Translation. Her research interests are language acquisition and language teaching methodologies as regards German as a second/foreign language. These include corpus research in language teaching and learning and CLIL. Her current research focuses on language and communication in tourism, language policy and multilingual tertiary education. She collaborates in several projects on language learning in multilingual contexts, including projects at the European level. In 2014, she was appointed by the Rector of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano to develop and implement the multilingual language strategy for the whole university.

Lynn Mastellotto

PhD (University of East Anglia), MA and BA (McGill University), PGCE (Oxford University) – is a Researcher at the University of Bolzano, Faculty of Education, in English Language and Translation. Her research interests include literature and cultural studies, English Language Teaching for young learners, multilingual learning and intercultural education, academic skills in Higher Education, English Medium Instruction (EMI), and methodologies which integrate content and language in higher education (ICLHE).

Michele Cagol

PhD in Education (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), MA in Cognitive Sciences (Siena University) and in Music and New Technologies (Bolzano Conservatory), BA in Philosophy (Bologna University) – is a Researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Education, in General Pedagogy. His research interests are emotional education, music/sound and emotion, visual and musical storytelling, media and communication education, teaching technologies.

Giulia Consalvo

is a PhD Student at the Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Education. Her research interest concerns language acquisition and language teaching, especially in Montessori elementary school contexts. She taught for many years in Montessori schools, with a focus on second language learning. She now offers her expertise to schools and educational institutions for the design and implementation of several educational projects at the national level. She also collaborates with the Opera Nazionale Montessori as a teacher trainer, consultant and project supervisor.

University of Education in Freiburg

Matthias Hutz

is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching at the University of Education in Freiburg, English Department. His main research interests include the study of second-language acquisition, pragmatics as well as multilingual learning and intercultural education in various contexts (e.g. in immersion schools) and various aspects of foreign language learning and teaching (e.g. the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar). He offers pre-service teacher training courses in various fields of applied linguistics, bilingual learning and teaching as well as Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). His current research focuses on the acquisition of lexical items and the analysis of classroom interaction in the context of immersion classrooms.