Silvia Giorgini

Silvia Giorgini

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Second Language Acquisition
• Applied Linguistics
• Alternative Assessment
• Technology Integration in the 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

2021 Member, Academy of Teachers

2019 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching

GRANTS

2024 Office of the Provost Grant Award for Project: "Aligning Assignments with Learning Outcomes for the BA in Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"

Travel Grants from the Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL):

2024 to present paper at AATI International Conference in Perugia, Italy

2023 to present paper at AATI International Conference in Catania, Italy

2022 to present paper at ACTFL National Conference in Boston, MA

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

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

Selected publications

Giorgini-Althoen, Silvia. "Bridging Cultures Across Borders: Intercultural Engagement through a Virtual Collaborative Project". The FLTMAG, 24 January, 2022, https://fltmag.com/bridging-cultures-virtual-collaborative-project/

Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught

College Board AP Italian Language and Culture Exam Development Committee Member

AP Italian Language and Culture Exam Leader

Certified Plida Examiner for Dante Alighieri Society-Michigan Chapter

VoiceThread Certified Educator

EdPuzzle Coach