Projects and partnerships
Perhaps according to some, "he who does it himself, does it for three" ("chi fa da sé fa per tre")... but not in the teaching and learning of Italian! "Two (or more) heads, in fact, think better than one" ("due o più teste pensano meglio di una"), and together they create a truly explosive volcano of ideas!
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These are, in fact, the extra projects I have worked on so far:​​
Ciao, I'm Elisa! And these are ideas I put into practice together with other colleagues!
"Come migliorare il tuo italiano nel 2025"
Podcast N.260
For the second time in two years, I had the pleasure of participating as guest on ‘"Simple Italian Podcast - il podcast di italiano comprensibile" by Simone Pols Language coach, leading resource with more than 3 million downloads. This time, together with Simone we talked about New Year's resolutions related to learning Italian.
"Chiedi a Elisa!" - Grammar-centered webinars
From January to June 2025 I am conducting and will conduct a series of monthly 45-minute online meetings for Simone Pols Language coach membership programme, connecting with learners of Italian as foreign language from various parts of the world. Together we will discuss about the verb ‘piacere’, the prepositions, the relative pronouns, the passive form, the hypothetical period, and 'marked' sentence structures, trying to answer to the most frequent questions.
Teaching activity in cooperation with Italian employees of Infineon Technologies
At the Faculty of Business and Management of the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences, my colleague Stefania Squadrito MA and I organised an interview activity in Italian in which our Master students in International Business Management participated together with some Italian employees of the Graz and Villach subsidiaries of the company Infineon Technologies.
"Chiedi a Elisa!" - Grammar-centered webinars
From January to June 2023, I held a series of monthly 40-minute online meetings for the Simone Pols Language coach membership programme, connecting with learners of Italian as foreign language from various parts of the world. We discussed together the imperfetto and passato prossimo, the congiuntivo and consecutio temporum, pronouns, the position of adjectives and pronominal verbs, trying to find an answer to the most frequent questions.
"Intervista a Elisa, insegnante di italiano a Graz"
Podcast N.168
I participated as guest on "Simple Italian Podcast - il podcast di italiano comprensibile" by Simone Pols Language coach, leading resource with more than 3 million downloads. I talked with Simone about my Austrian experience as an expat and explored the role of emotions in language learning and teaching.
"Milano: orizzonti verticali - Luoghi e volti di una città che cambia"
I held a presentation at a meeting on the 14th of January 2022 in cooperation with Manuela Prata at the Società Dante Alighieri in Graz, where I highlighted the most important architectural changes of the last decades in my home town: City life, Scalo Porta Nuova, Le Varesine, the Bosco Verticale.
"A scuola come al cinema" - Materiale didattico di livello B1
I created a B1-level teaching unit from a scene from the movie "Bangla" (2019), which was published on the website of the Italian Cultural Institute in Austria and presented it to the public at the international conference "Quo vadis, Italian 2020?" on the 29th-31st of October 2020 at the Karl Franzens University in Graz.
"DidattiDante" - Multimedia Teaching Material
In cooperation with Giulia Nosari, vice-president of the Società Dante Alighieri Graz and high school teacher, I designed a series of teaching activities and short learning units with multimedia support (downloadable PDFs, LearningApps, ...) as part of the "DidattiDante" project. The material is freely accessible and suitable for (mostly young) learners of CEFR level A1-B1.
Would you like to start a cooperation? Please contact me and we will agree on a shared work plan!
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