Chiara Antonini

Chiara Antonini is a Lecturer at the Department of Education and Learning within the Higher Education School at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland). With over two decades of experience, she has been teaching English since 1998, initially covering Business and General English at DSAS (now CLIR) and later focusing on English pedagogy for middle school teacher training at DFA.

• Education:
  • Linguistics and Literature, University of Zurich
  • Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (thesis: Interaction between linguistic and pragmatic competence)

Her professional expertise includes second language teaching methodology and oral assessment. She has served as an examiner for Cambridge English qualifications (PET, FCE, BEC) since 2002 and participated in developing new English curricula for middle schools (2003-2004). Research activities appear focused on pedagogical innovation and language acquisition frameworks.