Ilaria COMPAGNONI
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
- Website
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www.unive.it/people/ilaria.compagnoni (personal record)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
International PhD in Language Sciences (2025). Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and University of Primorska (Slovenia). Dissertation title: From Virtual Worlds to Real Connections: Investigating the Effects of Virtual Reality on Positive Interdependence in Language Learning and Teaching.
Visiting researcher in AI ethics in education (2024). Technical University of Munich.
Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher (2023). The University of Arizona.
Master's degree in language science (2021). Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Dissertation title: Learning Italian as a FL via Virtual Museum Tasks: The Effects on Students' Positive Interdependence.
Master of Arts in Linguistics (2015). School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Bachelor of Arts in foreign languages and literature (2013). University of Bologna.
Erasmus exchange program (2013). University of Manchester.
SCHOLARSHIPS
DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service. Short-Term Grant (pre-doctoral).
Fulbright scholarship, Visiting Student Researcher. The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission.
Erasmus program. European Commission.
TEACHING
Adjunct lecturer (2025). Ca' Foscari University of Venice. English Language (FT0130).
Senior Teaching Assistant (2024). Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Theories of Language Education (LM5440).
Adjunct Lecturer (2024). University of Verona. Digital Storytelling.
Language trainer (2021). Ca' Foscari Challenge School.
English language tutor (2021). Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Italian language assistant (2015). King's College London.
Italian language assistant (2013). Aquinas College (United Kingdom).
GUEST LECTURER
2024. Immersive Foreign Language Learning: Integrating Virtual Reality and AI Technologies. Purdue University, US.
2024. Il digital storytelling per insegnare la lingua italiana e promuovere il patrimonio culturale. University of Primorska, Slovenia.
2024. Creazione e valutazione di un tour glottodidattico su izi.Travel. University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.
2024. Il digital storytelling per la promozione dell'apprendimento linguistico dentro e fuori la classe. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice.
2024. Crafting XR tours to boost cooperative agency in the language classroom. XR Professional Development Series. Purdue University, US.
2024. Utilizzare la realtà virtuale per una didattica linguistica cooperativa. ANILS (Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti di Lingue Straniere), Pescara.
2023. Virtually distant, incredibly close: teaching Italian through Virtual Reality. Master in Language Teaching (MADILS), Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, Venezia.
2022. Boosting positive interdependence in learning Italian as a Foreign Language with immersive Virtual Reality. University of Verona.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
EuroCALL 2024 - Slovakia. Presentations: Building Cooperative Relationships in Task-Based Language Learning and Teacher Training with Virtual Reality. XR-GBLL SIG Panel/Symposium on Language Teaching in Virtual Immersive Environments: A Discussion on Effective Task Design.
Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL 2023) - USA. When iVR meets AI: practices and challenges for language educators.
ISYDE2023 Italian Symposium on Digital Education - Italy. Blending iVR with AI in teacher training for language instruction.
Language Learning and Teaching in Digital Transformation (2023) - Switzerland. Extremely virtual & incredibly physical: investigating students’ mediation strategies through Digital Storytelling and Digital Social Reading. Switzerland.
CALICO 2023 – USA. Virtual Reality in Hybrid Language Learning as a Tool to Foster Students' Positive Interdependence.
L2ML Virtual Symposium Second Language Multimodal Literacies, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (2023) – USA. Fostering language students’ multiliteracies through digital storytelling.
Globalizing the Community College Curriculum – USA. Language Learning through Collaborative Cooking in Immersive Virtual Reality: Practical Ideas.
CALICO Immersive Realities SIG Symposium (2023) - USA. Task-based learning in immersive Virtual Reality with students of Italian as a Foreign Language.
AZCALL 2022 – USA. VR use and blended language learning to boost students’ positive interdependence.
Technology for Second Language Learning Conference (TSLL 2022) -USA. An investigation on students’ positive interdependence in learning Italian as a foreign language with Virtual Reality.
Pragmatics & Language Learning (PLL) conference (2022) – USA. Perlocutory Effects of XR Environments on Students’ Positive Interdependence: Task-Based Activities for Learners of Italian as a FL.
Ed-Tech Symposium (2022) – Australia. VR use in hybrid learning to foster negotiation and opinion-sharing amongst students of English as a foreign language.
Past, History and Memory in Language and Literary Studies (2022) - Italy. Comparing past methodologies with present approaches to devise the future of language learning.
PARLAY 2015 Conference - UK. An investigation on the production of the Italian long liquids [ll], [rr] and [ʎ] and the short liquids [l] and [r] in multilingual L1 Japanese speakers.
International Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (2015) – UK. Training Japanese speakers in realising Italian s+C consonant clusters within the framework of government phonology.
Cutting Edges: Language, Standards and Politics Research Conference (2015) – UK. Training Japanese trilingual learners to realise Italian s+c consonant clusters.
MEMBER OF: EuroCALL - European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Centro Studi sul Multilinguismo (CSML) Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
CERTIFICATIONS
CELTA. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
CeCLIL. Content and Language Integrated Learning.
CEDILS. Certificazione in didattica dell'italiano a stranieri dell'Università Ca Foscari di Venezia.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES AND PARTNERSHIPS
Research partner: Immerse Language Learning.
Ricercatrice al Digital Innovation and Learning Lab (DIALL), the University of Arizona.
Ricercatrice in visita al LabVR, the University of Siena.
LANGUAGES
Italian, English, French, Japanese
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