Giorgia FATTORI

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• PhD candidate - Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
  University Ca' Foscari of Venice [09/2024 – Current]

Field of study: Educational Linguistics | Level in EQF: level 8 

Thesis: Service Learning Pedagogy for Plurilingual Education: a case study on attitudes towards plurilingualism in primary school

• Master Degree in Primary Teacher Education
  University of Padua [09/2014 – 15/10/2019]

Final grade: 110/110 cum Laude | Level in EQF: level 7

Thesis: Foreign languages in Preschool. Experimenting storytelling to teach English to young learners.

• Certificate of Specialisation / Postgraduate diploma in Hospital Education. Bases For Intervention
  Universitat de Barcelona - Faculty of Education [11/2021 – 07/2022]

Final grade: 8.5 / 10 | Type of credits: CFU| Number of credits: 30

• Transformation Plan. Keys to design Service-Learning projects. 

        CLAYSS (Latin American Center for Service-Learning) [10/2024 – 11/2024]

Five-weeks training course on Service-Learning projects design.

• TKT: Content and Language Integrated Learning
  Cambridge Assessment English [05/2021]

Final grade: Band 3 su 4

WORK EXPERIENCE

MIM - Ministero dell'istruzione e del Merito – Country: Italy
Primary School English Teacher, In-Hospital primari school teacher [01/09/2021 – Current]

Provincia Autonoma di Trento - Country: Italy
Primary School English Teacher [01/09/2020 – 31/08/2021]

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

[13/11/2025 – 14/11/2025] 9th Doctoral Conference - DSLCC Department University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Title of the conference: Giving voice, Gaining voice, Seeing Voices. Insights from Linguistics, Literature, Education and Translation Studies

Member of the Scientific and Organizing committee

[09/05/2025 – 10/05/2025] European Centre for Modern Languages - Graz
16th Conference for Young Academics of the Austrian Society for Language Education: Language Education in Dialogue

Title of presentation: Service-Learning pedagogy for EFL teaching and learning: introduction of a research in the Language and Global Education framework.

[27/04/2021 – 04/2025] University of Padua - Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
Real tasks in the foreign language classroom: using realia to foster motivation and communication in EFL

Five lectures on invitation by Professor Alberta Novello. English Language Teaching course, Master Degree program in Modern American and European languages and literature.

[30/10/2023 – 31/10/2023] University of Basilicata - Matera (Italy)
Service Learning Pedagogy for meaningful Language Learning and Teaching: sharing experiences and reflections from the field

ANILS annual national conference "Oltre il metodo la persona: il benessere dell'insegnante e dello studente di lingue".

[09/12/2022 – 10/12/2022] "Guglielmo Oberdan" high school - Trieste (Italy)
EFL learning and teaching in In-hospital schools setting: reflections and proposals for primary students

ANILS annual national conference "La storia serve per costruire il futuro. La didattica delle lingue in Italia attraverso 75 anni di ANILS".

PUBLICATIONS

[2025] Service Learning pedagogy in Language Education. A research introduction.

Fattori, G. (2025). Service Learning pedagogy in Language Education. A research introduction. In B. Hinger, S. Bartoli-Kucher, & O. Vandermeersch (Eds.), Sprachendidaktik im Dialog: Extended abstracts zur 16. ÖGSD-Nachwuchstagung (ÖGSD Tagungsberichte, Vol. 10, pp. 62-65). ÖGSD.

[2024] La prospettiva del Service Learning per un apprendimento significativo della LS. Alcune riflessioni metodologiche e buone pratiche a favore del benessere di docenti e alunni.

Fattori, G. (2024). La prospettiva del Service Learning per un apprendimento significativo della LS. Riflessioni metodologiche e buone pratiche per il benessere di docenti e alunni. SeLM - Scuola e Lingue Moderne, 4–6, 30-39.

[2023] How to Bring English as a Foreign Language to Hospitalized Primary School Students

Fattori, G. (2023). How to Bring English as a Foreign Language to Hospitalized Primary School Students. Humanising Language Teaching (HLT). 3

[2023] Insegnamento e apprendimento dell'inglese nella Scuola In Ospedale: riflessioni e proposte per la scuola primaria

Fattori, G. (2023). Insegnamento e apprendimento dell’inglese nella Scuola In Ospedale: Riflessioni e proposte per la scuola primaria. SeLM - Scuola e Lingue Moderne. 7–9, 26–33.

[2022] Lo storytelling per l'accostamento alla lingua inglese nella scuola dell'infanzia: una sperimentazione

Fattori, G. (2022). Lo storytelling per l’accostamento alla lingua inglese nella scuola dell’infanzia: Una sperimentazione. SeLM – Scuola e Lingue Moderne. 4–6, 30–37.

PROJECTS AND MEMBERSHIPS

[2025 – Current] UNiSL - RETE UNIVERSITARIA ITALIANA PER IL SERVICE-LEARNING (Italian network of Service Learning in Higher Education)

[2023 – Current] Reading Is Caring - RIC

Founder of the RIC project concerning plurilingual storytelling sessions for children with the involvement of the local community

[2023 – Current] EASLHE (European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education)

[2022 – Current] ANILS - Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Lingue Straniere (Italian national association of foreign language teachers)