CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM

BRUNO LONGO

Personal data
BIRTH DATE AND PLACE : 21 May 1946, Vittorio Veneto ( TV ) Italy
STATUS : single
PRESENT ADDRESS: Bașkurtsokak 3 Murat Apartman 12
Cihangir, Istanbul
PHONE: cell.: 0090/438 4180 730
E-MAIL :
studies
MASTER DEGREE IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES. University of "Ca' Foscari". Venice. 1972. 110/110 and honours.
QUALIFICATION AS A PERMANENT TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN ITALIAN STATE SCHOOLS. 8/11/1975. 100/100.
CERTIFICATE OF ARABIC LANGUAGE. "King Saud" University of Riyadh (KSA). Dicember 1998.
work experience
TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE in Italian state schools since 1973.
PERMANENT TEACHER OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE since 10/09/1978.
TEACHER OF ITALIAN AND ASSISTANT TO THE CHAIR OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE. SomaliNationalUniversity. Moqdishu. From 8/07/1985 to 27/11/1985.
TEACHER OF ITALIAN.MorialtaHigh School. Adelaide,South Australia. From 26/06 1989 to 31/08/1990.
STATE-SPONSORED LECTURER OF ITALIAN.KingSaudUniversity. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. From 1/09/1995.
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN (in charge of devising the detailed syllabi of all the subjects from level I to level VI, and of the assessment of prospective teachers). KingSaudUniversity. Riyadh. Saudi Arabia. From 1995 to 1998.
STATE-SPONSORED LECTURER OF ITALIAN WITH EXTRA-ACADEMIC DUTIES (to be carried outin the Cultural Section of the Embassy of Italy). Riyadh. Saudi Arabia. From 1/09/1997 to 1.09.2002.
DIRECTOR OF STUDIES. Italian Cultural Institute. Ankara. From April 2003 to October 2003.
OFFICER FOR CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE PROMOTION (in charge of supplying Cultural Institutions abroad such as Universities and Italian Cultural Institutes with printed, audio-video material). Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rome. Italy. Since 27/10/2003. Resigned for personal reasons in 15/09/2005.
INSTRUCTOR OF ITALIAN. KoçUniversity. Istanbul. Since September 2005
training courses attended
( MAIN ONLY)
Teaching and developing communicative skills. LEND. The British Council.Treviso.1980.
Distance Training Foundation Module. The British Council.IRRSAEV.Treviso.1983-84
Computer for teaching purposes.CIDI. Vittorio Veneto.1985.
Foreign Languages Special Project. Ministry of Public Education. Treviso. 1987.
Course for Formators. The British Council. The Bell Educational Trust. Norwich. 1987.
Language Awareness. LEND. Ministry of Public Education. Conegliano. 1988.
Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language. Ministry of Public Education.Rome.1989.
Psychological and methodological problems for the formation of Foreign Language Teachers in Primary Schools.LEND.Turin.1991.
Using video. Ministry of Public Education.Conegliano.1993.
Course for Lecturers of Italian in Foreign Universities. University for Foreigners of Perugia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Perugia.1994.
In-service course for Cultural Promotion Officers. Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rome. November 2003- June 2004
other positions
Director of Language Training Course. LEND. Provveditorato agli Studi di Treviso.Treviso.1985.
Speaker at the Course of Italian for Teachers of Italian on :"The learning process " and "Reading strategies" (five meetings ). T.A.F.E. Adelaide.1989.
Deviser of Oral Comprehension Tests 1990 for S.S.A.B.S.A. (Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia).Adelaide.1990.
Member the Panel selecting candidates to the Course of Formation for Teachers of English in Primary Schools.Treviso.1991.
Speaker at the in-training course:" The four Skills ". Conegliano.1993.
Member of the Board of the magazine Ahlan fi Italia, published first in English then in Italian and Arabic by the Embassy of Italy in Riyadhfrom 1996 to 2000.
Co-founder and Chairman of the "Società Dante Alighieri" Committee of Riyadh from 1998 to 2002. (“Società Dante Alighieri” is the Italian equivalent to Goethe Institut, Alliance Française etc.)
Workshop on: “Reading the Mind of the Reader”. Ist Conference of the Teachers of Italian in Turkey. YıldızṺniversitesi. Istanbul. 2006
10 Workshops on Contemporary Italian Literature.IstanbulṺniversitesi. September to December 2009.
Coordinator of Foreign Language Teachers of Department of Humanities. Koc University. Since Fall 2012
Speaker on: “What a Turkish reader can find in Una vita by ItaloSvevo”. Italian Cultural Institute. February 2012
PUBLICAtIONs
(With Rosa Leto and Margot Ludbrook), Fra le righe. Attività comunicative basate su testi autentici. CIS Educational. Carlton Victoria.1994. (It is a textbook of communicative reading activities for beginner to post-intermediate foreign students of Italian)
"An Italian Jewel " in Arab News March 20 1997.
Introduction to “L’ABC l’ha detto la TV” and “L’italiano filmato” in Atti della II settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo. Ankara. 2003
“Il posto della Turchia in Europa” in Riforma. 3 March 2006
“ Hayatiștesohbetederken” Kitaplık, Ekim 2012
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LANGUAGES
Italian. Mother tongue
English. C2
French. C2
Turkish. B2

Arabic. B2 but not used for a long time

German.3 year study

Spanish.3 year study