Maria Teresa Bonfatti Sabbioni was born in Piacenza (Italy). She holds a laurea degree in Medieval Art History and Latin Paleography from Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy), an MA in Teaching Italian as a Second Language from Università Ca` Foscari Venezia (Italy), an MA in Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her research interests include: second language acquisition, heritage language studies, world languages pedagogy, history of linguistics, intercultural communication, and language documentation (Italian dialects).
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