Camilla SPALIVIERO

Camilla Spaliviero is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (European Fellowship) at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen (Norway). With her project LATECO: fostering multilingualism through LAnguage TEacher COllaboration (score: 100/100), she aims to investigate language teachers’ mindsets about cross-linguistic collaboration, evaluate the impact of a professional development intervention in Norway, and adapt and replicate successful collaboration strategies across Europe. By combining the psychological and multilingual dimensions of language teaching and learning, LATECO adopts an exploratory mixed-methods approach, involving a longitudinal multiple case study in Norway and a focus group study across Europe. The project includes a secondment at the University of Graz (Austria) and a short visit to the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).

Her research interests focus on multilingual education, intercultural education, the use of literary texts and multimodality in the foreign/second language classroom, with a particular emphasis on language teacher collaboration, language teacher education, and language learning strategies.

Education

After a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she completed a Master's program in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language and Culture at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She also attended the postgraduate courses "Teaching languages to students with special needs" at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and "Reading and literary education in the 21st century" at the University of Valencia (Spain). She holds the certificates CEDILS (Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language) and COMLINT (Interlinguistic and Intercultural Communication and Mediation).

In 2020 she earned a PhD in Educational Linguistics, with the title of Doctor Europaeus, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her research project focused on using literary texts in the foreign language classroom at Italian upper secondary schools.

Research Activity

She has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, investigating the teaching of Italian in Argentina. In particular, she explored the beliefs, teaching practices, and training needs of Italian language teachers at the Dante Alighieri Society related to multilingual education, literary texts by women writers with migratory backgrounds, and digital storytelling.

Within the Itals Lab at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, she coordinates the "Itals Letteratura" project, focusing on research and teacher training related to multimodality, intercultural education, and multilingual education associated with literary texts in the Italian L2/FL classroom.

She participates in the research projects "MULTIEDULIT: Reader education, literary, linguistic, and inclusion: An investigation through multimodal children's and youth literature around diversity and sustainability", coordinated by the University of Valencia (Spain), and "AXIO-LOGOS: Language assessment through literary texts", coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She is a member of the Central Examination Committee (CEC) for the State Certificate of Foreign Language Proficiency (SCFLP) - Italian as a Foreign Language section - for the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Directorate of Examinations and Certifications.

She has conducted research experiences abroad. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Valencia (Spain), and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway).

She participates in national and international research groups. She is a member of the "Centre for Research in Educational Linguistics" (CRDL) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, as well as the research groups "Multilingualism on My Mind" (MoMM) at the University of Bergen, "Reading Literacy, Literary and Linguistic Education, Culture and Society" (ELCiS) at the University of Valencia, and "Literature in Language Learning and Teaching Network" (LiLLT ReN) of the AILA Research Network. She is affiliated with the "Multilingualism Research Centre" (CMSL), and collaborates with the Archive of Migrant Writers (ASSM) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Teaching Activity

She has been an adjunct professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, the University of Ferrara, the University of Turin, the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria), and the University of Udine. She convened courses on Teaching modern languages, Teaching Italian L2, Language learning strategies in Spanish and Italian LS through multilingual education, and Teaching Italian L2 through children's literature and digital resources. 

She has been awarded Erasmus+/KAI 171 ICM and Erasmus+/KAI 1 STA projects. She has delivered seminars on multilingual education, the use of literature in the foreign/second language classroom, and multimodality at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the University of Maroua (Camerun), the Yerevan State University (Armenia), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), and the University of Bergen (Norway). 

She has convened online modules within the Master in Inclusive and Accessible Language Education (MELIA) and the Postgraduate Course in Teaching Italian as a Foreign and a Second Language at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 

Membership of Editorial Committees  

She is a member of the editorial boards of Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata-RILA and EL.LE. Educazione Linguistica, Language Education.

She is a reviewer for the journals EL.LE. Educazione Linguistica, Language Education and SeLM-Scuola e Lingue Moderne.

Other Professional Experiences

She is a teacher of Italian L2/FL in different multilingual and multicultural teaching contexts, including primary and secondary schools, international university students, and adult learners. She is also a teacher of Spanish FL (secondary schools and adult learners) and English FL (adult learners).

She is a language teacher trainer, and an examiner for CEDILS certification.

She is the national delegate for the "Teaching Language through Literature" network within the Italian Association of Foreign Language Teachers (ANILS).

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Academia: https://unive.academia.edu/CamillaSpaliviero 

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camilla-Spaliviero-2 

ORCID: 0000-0001-8070-5745