Arianna

Hello! My name is Arianna and I’m 26. I am currently living in Trieste where I am working as a cognitive neuroscientist. During my student career, I’ve always tried to live in different places to connect with people with different backgrounds and interests, and this is also one of the reasons why I want to invest in this teaching experience. Since I was 16 when I lived for my first time abroad in Canada, I’ve never stopped pursuing the dream of connecting to as many different cultures and languages as possible. So far, I lived on two different continents, and in three different countries and I changed a total of 11 houses. In the past years I’ve always helped people of different ages with English or homework and I had the luck to teach in a middle school for a month. I volunteered for a little while in a school for teaching Italian to foreigners and now, I am teaching Italian to my Irish boyfriend. The CEDILS course give me a great preparation about the organization of my lessons and it gave me also very interesting insight on how our brain work while we are learning which is something I always keep in mind while preparing my classes. During my lessons, I prefer using conversation over exercises and grammar rules even tho, sometimes are also needed. I like to use game when possible and i like to learn the learning type I have in front of me to adapt to what suits my students the most. I also try to understand what are the interests of my students and I use them to make my classes more interesting using Italian as a tool to also learn something about the topic my students like.