Veronica Vegna
Senior Lecturer and Italian Language Coordinator
Office: Gates-Blake 234
773/702-2542
vvegna@uchicago.edu
Veronica Vegna specializes in teacher training and foreign language acquisition. A native speaker of Italian, Veronica studied in Italy, Spain and the UK. In England, she taught Spanish language and culture to undergraduates, coordinated the Spanish courses and lectured within the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) - Modern Languages at St Martin's College, Lancaster, where she devised and delivered the language learning experience element of the teacher training course. Veronica also taught other courses in the UK, including Italian language and culture in Adult Education and within a mentor training project promoted by the EU. She came to the US as a Fulbright grantee. She currently teaches beginners, intermediate and advanced Italian language classes at the University of Chicago and coordinates the Italian language program.
She is presently working on a project funded by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning to create video clips of exemplary Italian lessons that will be used for teacher training purposes and as an example of a multisensory approach to language teaching. This project also aims at developing authentic audio and video materials with a variety of accompanying activities.
Education
- PGCE - Modern Languages (Spanish and Italian), St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK, 2001
- Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (English and Spanish), Università di Palermo, Italy, 1999
- Laurea in Giornalismo, Università di Palermo, Italy, 1995
Awards, Honors and Professional Experience
- Grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, University of Chicago, 2006
- Fulbright Grant, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, 2004
- Italian language assistantship (promoted by the Italian Ministry of Public Education and the British Council), London, UK, 2000
- Leonardo Project, European Commission, 1999
- Erasmus study project, European Commission, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, 1998
Selected Courses Taught
- Elementary, intermediate and advanced Italian
- Elementary, intermediate and advanced Spanish