Teaching
Italian Language lecturer:
- Since October 2017: lecturer in Italian as a Second Language at University of Padua (Italy).
- From February 2017 to July 2017: lecturer in Italian as a Second Language at Huaqiao Jilin University for Foreign Languages, Changchun (China).
- From September 2015 to February 16: lecturer in Italian Language and Literature, Italian History, and Italian phonetics, at Magtymguly adyndaky Turkmen Dowlet Uniwersiteti, Ashgabat (Turkmenistan).
- From 2008 to 2015: lecturer in Italian as a Second Language at the Università del Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro in Vercelli, Novara and Alessandria, Italy.
- From October 2014 to January 2015: Lecturer of Italian for Adiuva (Italian language school based in Milan, Italy), for which I held courses of Italian for foreign students at the Polytechnic in Milan (Italy).

PhD
My doctoral dissertation in Linguistics and Teaching Italian as a Second Language was passed with no amendments on 7th March 2007; the dissertation was entitled “Discourse Markers in Spontaneous Speech of Italian Language Learners”. I investigated the use of discourse markers according to the models developed by Schiffrin, Bazzanella, and Berretta.
Affiliation: Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy.
PhD supervisor: Prof. Monica Barni, Coordinator of the Linguistic Center in Siena.
Co-supervisor: Prof. Giacomo Ferrari, Professor of Glottology, General Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics and Dean of Faculty at Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy).