Silvia Giorgini-Althoen

Silvia Giorgini-Althoen

Department

Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Second Language Acquisition

  Applied Linguistics

  Use of technology in the World Language Classroom

  Teaching Language through Fairy Tales and Literary Texts

  Italian Culinary History

   

   

Education

• Master of Arts, Università degli Stranieri di Siena, Italy - February 2018. Defended Thesis: "La fiaba e la favola nella didattica dell'italiano LS a studenti universitari" (Teaching Italian through Folk and Fairy Tales in Higher Education")
• Laurea di Dottore in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (Russo), Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy – April 1991. Defended thesis: "Dmitrii Kantemir: Kniga Sistima ili Sostojanie Mogammendoskoj Religii"
• Italian Elementary Teaching Certificate, 1999

Awards and grants

• 2019 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching

  Foreign Language Technology Center (FLTC), Wayne State University

  Mini-grants:
  2015 Online Testing: completing the sequence ITA 1010
  2014 Business Italian: Design and Develop Fully Online Course
  2013 Online testing: expanding to Basic Courses ITA 1020
  2011 Online Testing in Basic Courses ITA 2010

  Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL), Wayne State University

  Full Travel Grants:

  2019 to present paper at ACTFL National Conference in Washington D.C.

  2016 to present paper at ACTFL National Conference in Boston, MA
  2015 to present paper at ACTFL National Conference in San Diego CA
  2013 to present paper at ACTFL National Conference in Orlando FL

Currently teaching

• ITA 2020 Italian Through Film - 3 credits

  ITA 2991 Italian Fairy Tales - Online - 3 credits

  ITA 2010 Intermediate Italian - 4 credits

   

   

Courses taught

ITA 1010

ITA 1020

ITA 2010

ITA 2991

ITA 3030

ITA 3100

ITA 3200

ITA 3300

ITA 4610

ITA 4620

ITA 5150

ITA 5200

ITA 5570

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