CURRICULUM VITAE

CHERYL WOLLEY

Collaboratore ed esperto linguistico/Professore a contratto (Administrative Science) at the Faculty of Economic, Legal and Political Sciences.

Qualifications:

(1975) B.A. Honours combined degree in Philosophy, English and Welsh.

Post graduate qualifications include:

-  1979 an Italian language diploma at the University of Perugia.

-  2000 The TEFL Certificate (Teachers of English as a Foreign Language), grade

A, obtained at The English Language Centre, Bond Street, London.

-  2001 The TEFL Diploma, grade A+, awarded at The English Language Centre, Bond Street, London.

-  2007 The Further Certificate for Teachers of Business English LCCI, grade pass with distinction at the Università Cattolica, Roma.

Since 1976 until the present date she has worked as a native speaker language teacher (Lettore and then CEL), teaching English to students of Political Science and the newly named Economics, Legal and Political Sciences Faculty from beginner to post-intermediate level. During her 40 years of experience she has integrated traditional methodology with multimedia technology and language laboratories. She has also taught English at Facoltà di Magistero (1977-1978) and at the Faculty of Letters, University of Sassari, Consorzio Uno, Oristano (2002-2003).

During her teaching career she has also taught courses of both a general and specific ESP nature at the Language Centre of the University of Cagliari.

From 2007 until 2010 she was a contract professor for the laurea magistrale (second level degree course) Programmazione e Gestione delle Politiche e dei Servizi Sociali.

From 2010 to the present date she has been contract professor for the laurea magistrale Scienze dell’ Amministazione.

Her main research interests are:

-  Language Teaching and Methodology

-  Item writing and Rating

-  ESP

Recent Publications:

-  2006 The Long and Winding Road from Behaviourism to Intercultural Communicative Competence. How awareness of developments in traditions helps the ELT teacher in Englishes, N.28, ANNO 10, Grafiche Editoriali, Roma.

-  2006 Rater Training: an Essential Principle for Transparency and Equivalence in Testing in RILA, n-2-3, Bulzoni Editore

-  2007 An Experimental In-Service Item Writing and Rating Course in RILA, n.3 Bulzoni Editore

-  2008 Teaching reading: still an important issue for EFL teachers in the 21st century? in RILA, September/December n3, Bulzoni Editore

-  2009 Britain Past and Present: History, Language and Institutions. English for Political Scienc,e ARACNE editrice. Co-authors Giordano, Michela and Lander Simon F.

-  2012 Public administration in the UK. English for Administrative Science, ARACNE

Editrice,Co.author Giordano, Michela