Innovation in Language Learning

Katia Carraro received her first degree in Translation studies in 1997 from the University of Triest (I) and the following year her M.A. in Applied Language and New Technologies from the University of Hull (UK). After working as an educational technologist and language advisor at the Language Centre of the University of Padua (I) in 2001 she moved to Vienna (A), where she held a position as Head of Language Learning Centre at the Vienna University of Economics and Business for over 16 years. During the same period she also worked as a lecturer of Italian for the Department of Foreign Language Business Communication. She is currently working at the University of Fribourg (CH) and in the process of completing her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Vienna.
Her areas of research and interest include autonomous language learning, individual learner differences, tandem language learning and computer-assisted language learning.