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Marco Mezzadri is a full Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Parma (Italy). He holds a PhD in Linguistics and Modern Language Teaching Methodology. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the director of the Foundation Year programme of the University of Parma..
He has written over hundred articles and essays in the field of Educational Linguistics and a dozen monographs of the same disciplinary area. He has also edited several more volumes. His main fields of research are bilingual education and language acquisition; inclusive language education; neuroscientific aspects of language learning and teaching; teaching Italian as a FL; language learning, teaching, and assessing for academic purposes; language policies; teacher training.
Director or co-director, member of the editorial and scientific board or referee for several series and journals. Author of a number of teaching materials and textbooks, on paper and multimedia, for Italian and Spanish as a foreign language, Italian as an L1. He has worked as a teacher trainer for FL teachers in Italy and abroad for over thirty years and held lectures, courses and seminars at numerous institutions and universities. He is the coordinator of the Lincei per la Scuola Foundation (Parma branch) and a member of the scientific board of Società Dante Alighieri.
