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Lina Vellucci
Date of Birth: 24th February 1951
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.A
Nationality: American/Italian
Citizenship: Italian/American
Address;Via Savoia, 35 Rome, 00198 Italy
Home phone #06 85300845
Cell phone # 347 1457697
Email address:gwhiz@libero.it
EDUCATION
Chandler Elementary School, Van Nuys, Ca
Elementary/Junior High Jchool 1956-1962
S.M.S. Castelforte, LT, Italy
Junior High School 1963-1966
I.T.C.’Filangieri’, Formia, LT, Italy
High School 1966-1971
C.A.N.T.U.S, Rome, Italy
Tourist Assistant Training Course 1971
University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’
University Degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures 1971-1976
(English and French)
AWARDS
• Scholarships at High School
• University 1967-1969
1971-1973
TRAINING AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Substitute teacher (pre-ruolo) in different High schools in Rome 1976-1984
Qualification exam (reserved session) for teaching English in Italian High Schools 1982
Qualification exam (concorso ordinario a cattedre) for teaching English in Italian Junior High Schools 1984
Qualification exam (concorso ordinario a cattedre) for teaching in Italian High schools 1985
I have taught English Language, Culture and Literature as ‘Insegnante di ruolo’ in different High Schools in Rome, Italy. 1985-1990 L.S. S. 'A. Avogadro’ High School 1990-2016
Retirement 2016
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Registered Interpreter and Translator at the Civil and Penal Courts of Rome, Italy
1988-present
Collaboration as translator for ‘Istituto di Ingegneria Meccanica Applicata alle Macchine’, Facolta’ di Ingegneria, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ Prof. A. Di Benedetto 1982-1985
Occasional Collaboration as translator for the Catholic University UCSC (Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ‘Agostino Gemelli), Facolta’ di Medicina e Chirurgia’, Istituto di Fisica Sanitaria ‘ etc. 1990, 1996
1997, 2006
LANGUAGES
• English – native language/excellent
• Italian – excellent/bilingual
• French – good
MEMBERSHIPS
• TESOL International Association 2012-present day
• TESOL Italy 1994-present day
• Executive Committee Member 1994-2016
• Second vice president TESOL Italy 2010-2012
• Vice president TESOL Italy 2012-2014
• President TESOL Italy 2014-2016 •
Courses, Conferences and Seminars attended
TESOL Italy Annual Conventions 1980 to present day
Seminar for Italian State School Teachers of English 1983
International House, Rome, Italy
Teacher Training Course 1983
CIDI, Rome, Italy
Courses, Conferences and Seminars attended
• ‘Integrated Skills Development with the Younger Learner’
British Institute, Rome, Italy 1988
• Training Course:’ Psychodynamic Development of Children and Personality Disorders’
Istituto di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy 1987-1988
• I have attended numerous seminars throughout the years at British Council, Center for American Studies (CSA), Keats and Shelley Memorial House, John Cabot University, Rome, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, etc.
Major Conventions
• English Teachers’ Association of Israel (ETAI) 2014
• TESOL International Association Conference Dalla, Texas 2013
• TESOL International Association Conference, Toronto, Canada 2015
• TESOL International Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland 2016
Organization of Courses, Conferences and Seminars
• I have organized seminars for TESOL Italy, (ex. Storytelling – Narrative and Literary Texts in Language Teaching’ held by Donna Tatsuki in 2013)
• I have taken part in the so-called ‘L’Aquila Action’, a teacher training program for l’Aquila teachers after the earthquake in that city in 2009. It was organized by TESOL Italy and sponsored by the US Embassy in Rome.‘Project Planning – Fun Ideas in the Classroom’, March 2010
Coordinator at L.S. ‘A. Avogadro’of the
• ‘Meet US’ program: ‘Reaching Out to Young Italians about Life in the U.S.A.’, a number of conferences held by US embassy diplomats 2008-2013
• Black History Month, Women’s History Month, etc throughout the years.
Teacher trainer of the following courses for Concorso a cattedre and for Language Improvement Courses for Italian State School teachers:
• Preparation ‘Concorso a cattedre’ organized by ‘Istituto per la Ricerca, La Formazione e la Documentazione’ (IRFED) 2000
• In-service Language Development Course for Italian Primary School Teachers
(Corso di Formazione di Lingua Inglese per docenti di Scuola Elementare)
L.S. ‘La Farnesina’, Rome 2004-2005
• ‘Seminar for English Exam Candidates, Exam preparation Lazio Formazione, Rome.
2013
• Preparation for Cambridge Exams (PET, FCE, CAE), Trinity and TOEFL
• English Language Course and Exams for 1st year students Faculty of Computer Science Engineering and Management Engineering ‘Sapienza’ University 2018
• CAE Preparation Course Centro Linguistico d’Ateneo ‘Sapienza’ University 2018
Other:
The Franklin Global SpellEvent 2009 in collaboration with TESOL Int’l
Teacher Participant 2010
• SpellEvent Coordinator 2011
• SpellEvent Coordinator 2012
US-Sicily Summer Camp organized by TESOL Italy 2015
Project sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Rome (Minister Counselor, Elizabeth McKay) and
carried out by TESOL Italy
Project Coordinator and Director of the Teacher Training Course and Language Improvement
Course for Junior High School students.
TESOL Best of Affiliates Session 8th April 2016
‘Content and EFL Teachers’ Collaboration in CLIL’
L. Lopriore – L.Vellucci
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Lina Vellucci