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Paola Polselli

Foreign language instructor: Italian

Area Formazione e Dottorato

Adjunct professor

Department of Education Studies "Giovanni Maria Bertin"

Curriculum vitae

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).