LanguagEd

Chiara Bruzzano (BA, MA, Cambridge DELTA 1, PhD) is a teacher trainer and researcher in language education. She is the founder and manager of LanguagEd, with which she has helped hundreds of Italian teachers pass their concorso. After teaching English in Italy, Spain and the UK, she gained her PhD at the University of Leeds with a research study on the teaching of English listening in Italian high schools. She is now the Principal Investigator on her research project "Forced Migrants, IELTS and Access to Higher Education" for the British Council. Chiara has been a language teacher trainer for many years and she specialises in the Italian school context. She has collaborated with a number of schools in Italy and is an English trainer at the Università degli Studi di Milano. She also collaborates on TESOL MA degrees with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Leeds. Chiara has published research and presented at international conferences on language teaching methodology. Further, she has developed teacher training materials for Oxford University Press Italia, and she is a resident writer for Modern English Teacher.