Elena BORSETTO

Academic experience

PhD in Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies and Linguistics (SSD L-LIN/02) Modern Languages, Cultures and Societies and Linguistics
Institution: Ca' Foscari University, Venice
Title of the thesis: English support service to academic staff in EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) programmes: A pilot project at the Department of Management 
Tutor: Prof. Carmel Mary Coonan
Date of completion: 11/07/2018

Master's Degree in European and American Languages and Literature
Institution: University of Padua
Title of Master's thesis: "Implementing CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): A case study of Italy and Sweden".
Supervisor: Prof. Fiona Dalziel
Date of achievement: 23/09/2013

Bachelor's Degree in Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures
Institution: University of Padua
Title of degree thesis: "Etre un libre-penseur d'après Montaigne et Cyrano de Bergerac" (To be a freethinker after Montaigne and Cyrano de Bergerac)
Supervisor: Prof. Anna Bettoni
Date of achievement: 24/03/2010

Work experience 

Academic years: 2021-22; 2022-23
Teaching: Tutor and teaching expert in ”Research in Language Education” (part of the executive master course MADILS)
Coordinator: Prof. Carmel Mary Coonan
Institution: Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), Challenge School

Teaching: Adjunct Professor of English for 1st year students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Languages, Literatures and Cultural Mediation (45 hours). 
Institution: University of Padua, Department of Linguistics and Literary studies

Academic year: 2022-23
Teaching: Adjunct Professor of English for 1st year students of the Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Development of Tourism Systems– 30 hours.
Institution: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Economics

Activity: Senior Teaching Assistant, Tutor of online activities on Moodle for the blended course Methodology of research in language teaching and learning – 30 hours
Coordinator: Prof. Marcella Menegale
Institution: Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies

Academic years: 2019-22
Activity: Post doc research fellowship
Name of the project: "The Internationalisation of the Department of Management: Analysis of processes and impact on the stakeholders".
Organisation: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Years: 2019-20; 2020-21
Activity: Teaching of English Language (ET0042), for the three-year degree course in Business Administration
Institution: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Years: 2018-19/2019-20
Activity: Tutor international students and support for internationalisation
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Chiara Saccon
Institution: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2019-20
Teaching: Module 1 - Introduction to CLIL (Tutor online modules)
Coordinator: Prof. Carmel Mary Coonan
Institution: Postgraduate Course in Didactics of Modern Languages - Address: Learning in LS (CLIL)- Secondary School

Academic Years: 2017-18; 2018-19; 2019-20
Activity: training and linguistic consultancy in the framework of the Academic Lecturing Project (addressed to teaching staff of Ca' Foscari University of Venice) AL Project
Institution: Organisation and Human Resources Development Office - ARU, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2016-17
Activity: training and linguistic consultancy within the Academic Lecturing Project (aimed at lecturers in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS) and in the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems (DSMN)
Institution: Organisation and Human Resources Development Office - ARU, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2016-17
Activity: training and linguistic consultancy as part of the Academic Lecturing Project (aimed at lecturers in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage)
Course Director: Prof. Paolo Pellizzari
Institution: Ca' Foscari School of International Education, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2015-16 > 2017-18
Activity: training and linguistic and didactic consultancy as part of the Koinè Project (aimed at teachers in the Department of Management)
Scientific responsible: Prof. Chiara Saccon
Institution: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2015-16
Activity: language and didactic training and consultancy as part of the Academic Lecturing Project (aimed at lecturers in the Department of Economics)
Course Director: Prof. Paolo Pellizzari
Institution: Ca' Foscari School of International Education, Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2015-16
Activity: English Tutor B2
Teaching coordinator: Dr. Marcella Menegale
Institution: Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua.

Academic Year: 2015-16; 2018-19
Teaching: Methodological Principles of CLIL I (Tutor online modules); Classroom Tutor
Course Director: Prof. Carmel Mary Coonan
Course Coordinator: Dr. Edoardo Menegazzo (Venice); Dr. Hilary Creek (Padua)
Institution: Ministerial CLIL Advanced Training Course (20 CFU) for the Veneto Region (Venice, Padua), Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Academic Year: 2014-15
Activity: Classroom Tutor
Course Director: Prof. Carmel Mary Coonan
Course Coordinator: Dr. Edoardo Menegazzo (Venice); Dr. Hilary Creek (Padua)
Institution: Ministerial CLIL Advanced Training Course (20 CFU) for the Veneto Region (Venice, Padua), Ca' Foscari University, Venice

Conferences 

Selected speaker, chairperson: 9th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23). 19–22/06/2023, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain. Title of presentation: “Students’ experience of Double Degree programmes: motivations and perceptions of skill acquisition”

Speaker: AIA 30 Conference "Experiment and Innovation: Branching Forwards and Backwards", 15-17 September 2022, University of Catania, Italy.
Title of presentation: "Analysing the needs of EMI teachers: A post-pandemic Italian perspective".

Selected Speaker: 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 15 – 17/06/2022, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain (hybrid conference). Title of presentation: “A European perspective on the internationalisation strategies and accreditation of Business Schools”

Speaker: Final Conference of Academics for SUCTIA (Systemic University Change Towards Internationalisation for Academia), 2-3 June 2022, Adam Mickiewicz Univeristy, Poznań, Poland.Title of presentation: 'University teachers' needs and concerns in English language teaching (EMI) A post-pandemic perspective'.

Talk: "The value-added experience of international dual degree programmes: a survey of students' motivations and perceptions" 25/04/2022, 14.00-15.00. In-person and online seminar: https://www.unive.it/data/16437/1/62638. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Management, Fondamenta S. Giobbe, 873, 30121 Cannaregio, Venice (VE)

Scientific Committee:
"Tertiary Teaching for the Multilingual University" - ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Italy online Symposium. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (11-12/06/2021).

Speaker:
Fourth international conference on MOOCs, Language Learning, and Mobility: design, integration, reuse - online conference. [Naples, 9-10 April 2021]. Title of presentation: "Integrating intercultural skills and Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) in a Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) course: Proposal for a MOOC project". http://conference.mooc2move.eu/index.php

Speaker (with Ada Bier):
CONVEGNO CRUI - La formazione linguistica quale veicolo di internazionalizzazione degli Atenei italiani [Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, 25-26 February 2021]. Title of presentation (with Ada Bier): "Un esempio di buona pratica per l’assicurazione della qualità nell’internazionalizzazione: Academic Lecturing a Ca’ Foscari". https://www.unive.it/pag/41314#c498164

Poster presentation:
NAFSA’s IEW (International Education Week) Campus Connection. International Education Research Virtual Poster Fair [online, 16-20 November 2020]. Title of poster: “Internationalisation of European Business Schools: preliminary analysis of mission statements”. https://www.nafsa.org/programs-and-events/nafsa-iew-campus-connection

Poster presentation (with Ada Bier):
Multilingualism and Multimodality in Higher Education (ICLHE Conference 2019), [Universitat Jaume I, Castellò, Spain, 15-18 October 2019]. Title: "On the need to support lecturers who embrace the challenge of ETPs: The Academic Lecturing course experience"

Speaker:
Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) Conference [Palazzo dei Congressi, Orvieto, Italy,13-16 June 2019]. Panel: Italian academic discourse as used abroad and in Italian universities. Title of presentation: “Una ‘buona pratica’ di supporto all’insegnamento accademico: L’esperienza di Academic Lecturing”.

Speaker:
3rd International Seminar: English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI): embracing pluricultural education [Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, 16-18 May 2019]. Title of presentation: "On the need to support lecturers who embrace the challenge of EMI: The Academic Lecturing course experience at Ca’ Foscari”.

Speaker:
EMI Practices in Europe: “Transnational Alignment of English Competences for University Lecturers (TAEC)“ [University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-5 April 2019]. Title of presentation: "English support service for the academic staff in EMI programmes".

Chairperson & speaker:
International Conference: Focus on Language. Challenging Language Learning and Language Teaching in Peace and Global Education: From Principles to Practices [The University of Education - Pädagogische Hochschule, Freiburg, Germany, 22-24 March 2018]. Title of presentation: “An English support service for the academic staff of the Department of Management”.

Organizer, chairperson & speaker:
IV Congresso della società di Didattica delle Lingue e Linguistica Educativa (DILLE): “La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio: le sfide dell'internazionalizzazione/ The teaching of languages in the new millennium: the challenges of internationalisation” [Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, 02-04 February 2017]. Title of presentation: “EMI and teacher training: Two projects to support the academic staff”.

Speaker:
17th LAKMA International Conference "Focus On CLIL" [Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania, 16-17/10/2015]. Title of presentation: "University students' attitudes to learning literature through English".

Other activities

Member of LADiLS - Laboratory for the Didactics of Foreign Languages, part of the Centre for Language Didactics of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Subject expert from 2018 to 2020 at the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Dorsoduro 1405, 30123 Venice) for SSD L-LIN/02.

Member of the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) association since 2019.

Secretary of ICLHE Italy Regional Group since 2020.

Obtained Certification in Teaching Italian to Foreigners - CEDILS (2019)

Awarded the Postgraduate Course in Didactics of Modern Languages; Address: "Teaching Italian to Foreigners" (A.A. 2019-20)