Patrizia Ritondale Spano

Education

1988     Master’s degree in Sociology and Roman Languages at Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt M. (Germany)

1996     Master of Arts in German and Italian Studies at University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Postgraduate Qualifications

2002     Master in Teaching Italian as a foreign and second Language, Ca’ Foscari University Venezia (I)

2007     DITALS II , Advanced Proficiency Certification in Teaching Italian to Speakers of Other Languages, University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy

2006     Postgraduate Specialization in Teaching Italian as a Second language, Ca’ Foscari University, Venezia (I)

Teaching Qualifications and Courses

2016     Qualified CELI (Certificate of Italian Language) Examiner,  Center for Language Evaluation and Certification, University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy

2013      Qualification as Language Facilitator for Teaching Italian as a Second Language at schools in the Province of Trento, Italy

1999    Level C1 in the German/Italian Bilingualism Examination, Agency for Bi - and Trilingualism of the Province of Bolzano, Italy 

1993     Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom, Goethe – Institut Frankfurt / M., Germany

Publications and Projects

”Trento da vivere”   (“Living in Trento”),  Conception and production of a multimedia Italian course for international students in collaboration with the E-learning Service of the University of Trento (2018)

Books 

 Caffè Italia 3 (Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri – terzo volume). Student’s book  (Eli Editions 2007);

Caffè Italia 3 – Guida per l'Insegnante – Teacher’s Book  (Eli Editions 2007);

Io italiano … e tu?  (edited by Rosanna Facchini e Reinhard Strauch, Bologna/Ludwigsburg 1994). Development and production of learning materials  for courses on  Italian Language  and Culture courses for Italian pupils living in Germany in order for them to maintain their mother tongue.

   Jan. 2014 – present        Examiner of Italian and German at the  Agency for Bi and Trilingualism of the Province of Bolzano

Sept. 2004 – present      Teacher of Italian language at the Language Centre of the University of Trento

Sept.2005 – present       Coordinator for the Italian courses at the Language Centre of the University of Trento

2009 -2012                     Teacher of Italian language at the Language Centre of the Free University of Bozen

2003 – 2004                    Teacher of Italian language and  culture at the Language Centre and at the Faculty of Romance Languages of the University of Stuttgart (Germany)

2000 – 2004                     Teacher of Italian language and culture at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Stuttgart (Germany)

1998 – 2000                     Pedagogical Teaching Assistant at ENAIP Stuttgart (Germany) on a project focussed on Italian pupils living in Germany aimed at fostering their integration in German schools.

1993 – 1998                     Research Assistant at the Teaching Centre and Intercultural Studies Department of the Pädagogische Hochschule  Ludwigsburg (Germany)

Second language acquisition: Italian and German as a second language;

Sociolinguistics: spontaneous acquisition of a second language (Italian in Italy and German in Germany);

 Migrant literature in Germany;

Language Testing;

E-learning