Direktorica Centra CILS, Didaktika modernih jezika
Prof. Sabrina Machetti – Università per Stranieri di Siena
Sabrina MachettiUniversity researcherResearcher in Educational Linguistics. Head of the Lingua e Cultura Italiana per l’Insegnamento agli Stranieri e per la Scuola Degree
Course. Since December 2013, Director of the CILS Center
(Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera).
She graduated in Philosophy in 1995 at the University of Siena and
obtained her PhD in Linguistics and Didactics of Italian to Foreigners
at the University for Foreigners of Siena with a research on linguistic
vagueness and the effects in testing and assessment of linguistic and
communicative competence. Since 2001, she is a specialist in Didactics
of Italian as a foreign language. For such specialization, she worked on
the basic levels of linguistic and communicative competence in Italian
L2 and on the methods of their testing and assessment. She also worked
on A1 and A2 CILS pre-basic levels.
The scientific activity focus on the language sciences, specifically on
the educational linguistics, language testing, theory of mediation and
semiotics. In these areas she deals with the language main
characteristics and their application in teaching, testing and
assessment of linguistic and communicative competence in Italian L2. In
the field of semiotics, she deals with the Italian language of wine and
the expanding mechanisms within the public and social communication, in
Italy and abroad. She also works on the language of Italian emigrants
abroad and in the field of Linguistic Landscape. She works within
national and international research groups. She participated to national
and international conferences. She is also the author of one book and
papers in peer reviewed journals.