(ANILS – Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti di Lingue Straniere, Italia)
Professor Paolo Balboni
His long career and commitment to languages, language acquisition and teaching are evidenced by his broad scientific production ranging from Italian as a foreign and second language to modern languages acquisition; from translation in language learning to micro-languages; from intercultural communication to the history of language education in Italy; from language educational technologies and digital resources to language teacher training; from language education theories to early language education; from the nature of communicative competence to language policy in EU; from the teaching of literature to sociolinguistics; from intercomprehension in Romance languages to plurilingual education.
Due to his multifaceted, generous, and original academic background, he gave birth to a renowned research strand known as Venetian School of language education research, which has been officially recognized for its humanistic, educational, and transdisciplinary perspective about language teaching, and is engaged with the social and political dimensions, focusing on language education as a whole. At the same time, the Venetian school of language education research devotes equal attention to the objective of teaching, i.e. language(s) as communicative instrument(s), and to the subject of the learning process, the student. Many researchers start and started their career within the School, and achieved important positions in various Italian universities, and young scholars continue to be inspired by it.
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