Luciana Pedrazzini (Principal Investigator) is an Associate Professor of Second Language Education and TESOL in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations of the University “Statale” of Milan. Her main research interests are in the areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy, history of language teaching, and teacher education. She is the co-author (with Andrea Nava) of Second Language Acquisition in Action: Principles from Practice (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the co-founder of the Italy ELT Archive at the University of Milan.
Andrea Nava is an Associate Professor in English in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations of the University “Statale” of Milan. His research interests are mainly in the areas of grammaticography, second language acquisition and the history of language learning and teaching.
Martin Ruskov is Temporary Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations of the University “Statale” of Milan, where he works in the area of Computer Supported Collaborative Work and its applications in Computational Humanities and Cultural Analytics. Martin earned his PhD degree at University College London working in the domain of Game-Based Learning. He has worked in the corporate sector, as well as on a number of research projects with EU and national funding from the UK, Germany, and Bulgaria. Among these were virtual explorations of historical artefacts (art-E-fact, EU-FP5-IST, 2002), lexical analysis of the vocabularly richness of multilingual medieval texts (Didactic Gospel, BNSF, 2020), and study of evolution of intended and perceived values (VAST, EU-H2020, 2020). His research interests include exploratory data analysis, data-driven storytelling, and technology-enhanced learning.
Emanuela Tenca is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations of the University “Statale” of Milan. Her research interests include English language teaching and learning, also from a historical perspective, inclusive and accessible foreign language education, English for Specific Purposes, and corpus-assisted discourse analysis.
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