Ilaria COMPAGNONI

ISTRUZIONE E FORMAZIONE

Dottorato internazionale in Scienze del Linguaggio (2025). Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italia) e Università del Litorale (Slovenia). Titolo della tesi: 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.

Laurea magistrale in Scienze del Linguaggio (2021). Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Titolo della tesi:  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.

Laurea in lingue e letterature straniere (2013). Università di Bologna.

Programma di scambio Erasmus (2013). University of Manchester.

BORSE DI STUDIO

DAAD. German Academic Exchange Service. Short-Term Grant (pre-doctoral).

Fulbright scholarship, Visiting Student Researcher. The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission.

Programma Erasmus. Commissione Europea.

INCARICHI DI INSEGNAMENTO

Docente a contratto (2025). Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. English Language (FT0130).      

Teaching Assistant Senior (2024). Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Theories of Language Education (LM5440)

Docente a contratto (2024). Università di Verona. Digital Storytelling.    

Formatore linguistico (2021). Ca’ Foscari Challenge School.        

Tutor di lingua inglese (2021). Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia.

Assistente di lingua italiana (2015). King’s College London.

Assistente di lingua italiana (2013). Aquinas College (Regno Unito).

LEZIONI - DOCENTE OSPITE

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. Corso di aggiornamento condotto all’Università del Litorale di Capodistria, Slovenia.

2024. Creazione e valutazione di un tour glottodidattico su izi.Travel. Università del Litorale di Capodistria, Slovenia.

2024. Il digital storytelling per la promozione dell'apprendimento linguistico dentro e fuori la classe. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venezia.

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 Didattica delle Lingue Straniere (MADILS), Ca’ Foscari Challenge School, Venezia.

2022. Boosting positive interdependence in learning Italian as a Foreign Language with immersive Virtual Reality. Università di Verona. 

PRESENTAZIONI TENUTE A CONFERENZE

EuroCALL 2024 – Slovacchia. Interventi: 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) - Italia. 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.

MEMBRO DI: EuroCALL - European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Centro Studi sul Multilinguismo (CSML) Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

CERTIFICAZIONI            

CELTA. Certificate in 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.

ESPERIENZE DI RICERCA

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.

LINGUE

Italiano, inglese, francese, giapponese