Gaia Chiuchiù

Gaia Chiuchiù received her MA in linguistics 1999 from the Università degli Studi di Perugia. Her experimental thesis contributed to the research for the first Italian draft of the European Language Portfolio, a project promoted by the Council of Europe that took place in Umbria from 1996 to 1999. In 2021, she earned her PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Portsmouth (UK) with a study on the effects of structured input and input enhancement in the acquisition of the Italian subjunctive. Her primary research interest lies in the relationship between experimental research in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and L2 teaching.
At present is responsible for the activities of research, experimentation and programming of the courses for the Accademia Lingua Italiana Assisi.  She is the coordinator for the Accademia of Italian language and culture courses and of English language and culture courses. She published the series Arte e Metodo (Guerra Edizioni). She is author of Comunicare in italiano (Hoepli), In italiano. Il corso 1,2,3 (Hoepli) and Yidali, the first Italian language course for Ipad (goWare).  In 2004 she taught Italian language and culture courses at the university of California at Santa Clara. From 2005 to 2009 she taught seminars in applied linguistics in Malta, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Sweden, Argentina, Uruguay, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, China, Spain, and Norway.  From 2000 to 2005 she translated into Italian texts of the American poet Murray Bodo Icarus in Assisi (Minerva Edizioni) and the works of Albert Camus: L’artiste en prison, (Davar I/2003), René Char (Davar II/2005),  Metafisica cristiana e neoplatonismo (Diabasis, 2004),  La devozione alla croce (Diabasis, 2005).