Autor: Paolo E. Balboni

Paolo E. Balboni is Full Professor of Educational Linguistics at Ca” Foscari University in Venice. He has written over 30 monographs and 150 essays on the teaching of native, second, foreign, ethnic and classical languages, many of them dealing with the epistemological nature of edu-linguistics and edu-linguistic research. His main fields of interest are Italian as a foreign language, intercultural communication as a basic component of communicative competence, and literary education. He is the president of the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes and the director of the Research Centre on Educational Linguistics in Venice.