She teaches ‘Bilingual education/CLIL’, ‘Research methods in Glottodidactics’ and ‘Language Education’ in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of Ca’ Foscari University and ‘Methodology of foreign language teaching’ and ‘Language Education’ at the SSIS (Scuola di Specializzazione Interateneo per la Formazione degli Insegnanti di Scuola Secondaria). Her fields of interest concern bilingual and multilingual education, psychological aspects of language education, the methodology for the promotion of the early learning of foreign languages in formal settings and, more recently, disabilities and foreign language learning and teaching. Paola DE MATTEIS