Paola Polselli earned a PhD in
Languages, Cultures and Intercultural Communication from the
University of Bologna (doctoral supervisor: Daniela Zorzi). She has
taught and coordinated various teacher and institutional operator
training projects with local and national institutions, including
universities, local education and health authorities. She is
currently Foreign Language Instructor at the Language Centre of the
University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor in Teaching Italian as a Second
Language. She has done extensive research on Italian
as a second language teaching and testing, cross-cultural and
intercultural conversation and professional writing. At present,
she is carrying out research on in-service training in
institutional writing and multilingual communication. She is the author
of several e-learning objects (2002-2020), a text-book for
university students (Manuale Altair. Italiano L2, 2006), a
book on language policy and training at work (Formazione
linguistica in azienda, 2012), and the co-editor of a book on the
ELIA project (Educazione Linguistica in Istituzioni e
Aziende, 2012).
