Curriculum vitae Prof. Sandro Caruana 6th March 2015
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. PERSONAL:
Name Sandro (Alessandro) Caruana
Academic qualifications B.Ed. (Hons) M.Ed. Ph.D. (Pavia)
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Occupation Associate Professor, University of Malta Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education Head of Department, Arts & Languages in Education.
2. STUDIES AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Studies:
Primary Education : St. Joseph School, Sliema Secondary Education : St. Aloysius College, B’kara Post-Secondary Education : G.F. Abela New Lyceum, Msida Tertiary Education : University of Malta (Bachelor of Education Honours and Master of Education degrees) University of Pavia, Italy (Ph.D. in Linguistics)
Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in Linguistics (1998 2001), University of Pavia, Italy.
Thesis: Mezzi di comunicazione e input linguistico. L’acquisizione dell’italiano L2 a Malta.
Areas of specialisation: Italian Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, linguistic input through the media, language teaching methodology (Italian).
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3. TEACHING / LECTURING EXPERIENCE:
1991-1995: Teacher of Italian and English in local state schools.
1995 to February 2001: Assistant lecturer at the University of Malta. Lecturing duties at the G.F. Abela Junior College in Italian literature, language and culture.
February 2001 to February 2006: Lecturer at the University of Malta. Lecturing duties at the G.F. Abela Junior College in Italian literature, language and culture.
December 2001 to May 2005: Lecturer (TR3 post) at the Department of Arts & Languages in Education, Faculty of Education.
2003 to 2005: Lecturer and dissertations’ tutor in Diploma in Interpreting and Translating post graduate course.
February 2006 to August 2007: Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta.
August 2007 to date: Associate Professor at the University of Malta.
May 2005 to date: Lecturing duties within the Department of Arts & Languages in Education (Faculty of Education), servicing the Department of Italian, Faculty of Arts.
September 2010 to date: Head, Department of Arts & Languages in Education (Faculty of Education)
September 2013 to date: Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education
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4. PARTICIPATION IN RECENT INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS:
2007-2009: Collaborator on the e SPICES (e Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills) International Lifelong Learning Programme Project. Reference No. 2008 1 IT2 GRU06 00547 1 Coordinated by the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. http://www.e spices.net/ Date of completion of Project: October 2009.
2008-2011: Scientific Coordinator of the MERIDIUM (Multilingualism in Europe as a Resource for Immigration and Dialogue Initiative among Universities of Mediterranean) LifeLong Learning Program (LLLP), key action 2 (Languages), project number 143513 LLP 1 2008 1 IT KA2 KA2NW. Coordinated by the University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy. http://meridium.unistrapg.it/ Date of completion of Project: November 2011.
2010-2012: Collaborated in the BRIDGE IT (Be Relevant to Intercultural Diversity Generation in Europe Integration Team) Reference No. 510101 LLP 1 2010 1 IT GRUNDTVIG GMP International Lifelong Learning Programme Project coordinated by the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. http://bridge it.communicationproject.eu/ Date of completion of Project: November 2012.
2010-2012: Scientific coordinator in “L’inglese e l’italiano del cinema: traduzione e apprendimento” funded by the Fondazione Alma Mater Ticinensis and coordinated by the Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy. Date of completion of Project: November 2012.
5. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
1. Caruana, S. / Fabri, R. / Stolz, T. (eds.) 2011, Variation and Change: The dynamics of Maltese in space, time, and society. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
2. Caruana, S. / Scaglione, S. / Coposescu, L. (eds.) 2013, Migration, Multilingualism and Schooling in Southern Europe, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishers.
3. Caruana, S. / Borg, C. / Cardona, M. 2013, Social Class, Language and Power, ‘Letter to a teacher’: Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana. Rotterdam Boston & Taipei: Sense.
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4. Caruana, S. / Vella, A. / Borg, A. (eds.) 2013, Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
B. Articles in journals
1. Caruana, S. (2012), Italian in Malta: a socio-educational perspective, in Camilleri Grima, A. (ed.), “International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism”. Vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 602 614. DOI:10.1080/13670050.2012.716816
2. Caruana, S. / Scaglione, S. 2014, “Superdiverse” school populations in Southern Europe: reflections on language use and suggestions for learning strategies, in Ilie C. (guest editor) International Journal of Cross-cultural Studies and Environmental Communication (Special issue: “Dialogue driven Change in the Public Sphere”), vol. 1,1 (2014):63 73.
3. Caruana, S. / Ghia, E. / Pavesi, M. 2014, Original and dubbed telecinematic input and Italian L2 acquisition in Malta, in “Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata”, XLIII:125 152.
(3) Chapters/contributions in books
1. Caruana, S. 2011, English in Malta: from colonialism to heritage, from social differences to opportunity, in Burada, M. (ed.), Allotropes of difference in contemporary discourse, Proceedings of the 9th conference on British and American Studies, Bra ov: Transylvania University Press, 25 38.
22. Caruana, S. / Grima, A. 2012, Language, Literature and the Maltese National Imaginary, in Putzu, I. / Mazzon, G. (eds), Lingue, letterature, nazioni. Centri e periferie tra Europa e Mediterraneo, Milano: Franco Angeli, 436 458.
3. Caruana, S. / Lasagabaster, D. 2013, Faraway, so close: multilingualism in the Basque Country and in Malta from a socio-educational perspective, in: Singleton, D., Fishman, J., Aronin, L., O Laoire, M. (eds.), Current Multilingualism: A New Linguistic Dispensation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 45 68.
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