Mairi Joanne Anderson

Foreign language instructor: English

Centro Linguistico di Ateneo

Adjunct professor

Department of Education Studies "Giovanni Maria Bertin"

Collaborations

Collaboration with:: Accademia delle Scienza dell'Istituto di Bologna
Country:: Italy
Description:: Speaker on "Tools and strategies for improving your scientific writing autonomously" at the following conference: "Saper comunicare il sapere - la comunicazione scientifica nel mondo della ricera, dell'industria e della divulgazione" at the Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna and in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry, Italy.

Collaboration with:: Council of Europe
Country:: Italy
Description:: Participation in three half-day international workshops organised by the Council of Europe in 2015 with a view to validating a set of descriptors of language proficiency, in particular for mediation activities and strategies, to complement those already available in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The tasks consisted of giving feedback on the quality and formulation of 50–70 descriptors, estimating the level of proficiency required to do what was defined in the descriptors, and using the descriptors for assessment.