Irene Caloi

Irene Caloi is a Lecturer in Italian Language at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures, Goethe University Frankfurt. She is based at Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and her office hours are available by appointment via email.

Education

• Studied Linguistics and Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language at Università per Stranieri di Siena and Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
• Doctorate (2016) with dissertation: 'The linguistic deficit in patients with Alzheimer's Disease: is there any syntactic impairment?'

Research Interests

• Syntax of Italian
• Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
• Foreign Language Didactics
• Neurolinguistics

Academic Roles

• Eligible to examine BA Romance Studies, L3 Italian, MA Italian Studies, and MA Language Structures and Language Cultures in a Romance Context
• Module Coordinator for BA ROM 2018 FS and OM-1
• Conducts Italian teacher training courses