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Carlo Giordano works at Utrecht University as a Lecturer. He teaches courses in Italian language and has a strong background in language acquisition, contemporary Italian literature, and intercultural teaching perspectives. Carlo collaborates with various educational institutions, including the University of Macerata and Università Cattolica Milan, serving as a teacher representative for Edulingua in the Marche region of Italy. He defended his PhD thesis at Università Cattolica Milan, focusing on the concept of mitigation in Italian scientific literature and its relevance to teaching Italian as a foreign language. His research encompasses pragmatics, textual linguistics, and applied linguistics, particularly analyzing mitigation strategies within a corpus of Italian research articles in the arts and humanities. His work seeks to explore the forms and functions of mitigation within various text domains and to assess the educational potential of a combined approach for teaching Italian as a second language, with particular emphasis on the Dutch educational context.
Department of Psychology