Sabrina Leone

Sabrina Leone is a Visiting Fellow, Italian Government Lecturer, in Italian Studies, with the Modern Languages Program of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong.

Academic Qualifications

• 1985 Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Florence
  Diploma of Interpreter-Translator (English and French)
• 1986 Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Florence
  Diploma of Parliamentary Interpreter (English and French)
• 1988 Istituto Universitario Lingue Moderne, Milan
  Degree in Foreign Languages
  Thesis: “Italian critics about Oscar Wilde”
• 1993 Université de Tours - Institut d’Etudes Françaises de Touraine
  Certificat d’études françaises
• 1993 British Institute, Florence
  Certificate of Proficiency in English
• 1998 Università degli Studi di Campobasso
  Degree in Business Administration
  Thesis: “Quality services”
• 2002 Università degli Studi di Firenze
  Post-graduate Certificate in E-Learning
  (specialization: planning of online education)
• 2004  Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici, Florence
  Degree in Sciences of Linguistic Mediation
  Thesis: translation of extracts about neurosis and ethics in medicine.

Specialization

• Interpreter-Translator (1978-89 in Bournemouth - England; 1989-92 in Paris and Tours - France; 1993 in Cambridge -England; 1997 in Nevada - USA; 1998 in Florida - USA; 1999-00 in Aix-en-Provence - France; 2000 in California - USA; 2004 in Dublin – Ireland; 2005 in Strasbourg – France) Collaboration with the D.A.E.S.T. - Dipartimento di Analisi Economica e Sociale del Territorio,  Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia);
• Teacher of English Language and Civilization in Secondary Italian schools and in Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses (since 1992);
• Educational consultant (since 1992);
• Management and Quality Systems Consultant (since 1995, LUISS - Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome; MC&M Centro Studi per l’Impresa, Bari; Tecnopolis – Università di Bari; SDA Bocconi, Milan;  FITA Confindustria, Rome).

Special Projects

• Qualification for the EU ETP (European Union Executive Training Programme) 1999-2000 in Japan;
• Interview for the Summer Fulbright Commission Programme 2004;
• Cooperative learning among teenagers and adults (2000 – 2002);
• Programma di Formazione IG students 2001/02  (Business Laboratory for Italian University and Secondary School students);
• Socrates programmes (European Union intercultural exchange programmes) with Sweden, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Estonia.

Research interests

E-learning in tertiary teaching and learning organizations, foreign language teaching methodology, intercultural awareness, computer assisted language learning.

E-Mail: sabrina_leone@uow.edu.au
Phone:+61 2 4221 3645