Laura Centonze
Work Experience
March 2011 - present
Cambridge ESOL invigilator and supervisor: KET, KETfS, PET, PETfS, FCE, FCEfS, CAE, CPE, BEC (all levels), ILEC, ICFE, TKT e Delta Module One (Centre Number: IT306)
Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Name and address of employer
Supervisor, Invigilator and Usher for Cambridge ESOL examinations (Centre Number: IT306)
Invigilation during Cambridge ESOL exams.
The Oxford Institutes, Via Adriatica, Lecce, Italy
March 2011 - present
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università del Salento, Lecce. Academic Tutor on a fixed-term contract.
December 2010-present
Lingua Franca Translation Services, Dr Anastasia Mesinezi. Translation Italian > English of legal texts.
November 2010 - present
Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd., Birmingham, UK. English > French translation of the guide to WordSmith Tools 5.
January 2009 – present
Freelance translator / proofreader – Translator at the 'Questura di Lecce – Ufficio Immigrazione'.
Proofreading of books in English as well as translation of some articles from Italian into English and vice versa:
1. Cambridge ESOL regulations for accredited centres (translation into Italian for the local Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo, Università del Salento);
2. UTS The Distance Turkish Test: Brief description (translation into Italian for the local Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo, Università del Salento);
3. Prometric: Agreement for accredited IBT centres (translation into Italian for the local Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo, Università del Salento);
5 May - 5 November 2010
Centro Orientamento e Tutorato / Centro Accoglienza Studenti (C.A.S.), Università del Salento, Lecce. (Bando per l'attribuzione di n. 58 assegni semestrali per l'incentivazione delle attività di tutorato – D.M. 23 ottobre 2003 n. 198 - “Fondo per il sostegno dei giovani e per favorire la mobilità degli studenti” - D.R. n. 67 del 22/01/2010)
Occupation or position held - Academic tutor on a fixed-term contract
Main activities and responsibilities - Assistance and support as regards matriculations, information on degree courses, on post-lauream courses; member of the Invigilation Commission within the 'Progetto Riesci' (i.e. entry test organised by the Faculty of Engineering, Università del Salento)
Education and training
November 2009 - now
2nd year student on a Level 2 language degree course (Lingue Moderne, Letterature e Traduzione Letteraria) at the Università del Salento.
November 26th, 2009
BA degree CUM LAUDE in Comunicazione Linguistica Interculturale (ex D.M.509/99 e D.M. 153/07), language combination: English+German. Final dissertation in English Language and Translation focusing on the use of negation and tag questions in a corpus of transcriptions from the BBC radio 4 panel game ‘Just a Minute’. Supervisor: Dr Thomas Christiansen.
June 2006
Secondary School Diploma (100/100 points) at the Liceo Linguistico, Socio-Psico-Pedagogico e delle Scienze Sociali ‘Pietro Siciliani’ in Lecce. (Languages: English, French and German).
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue - Italian
Other language(s) - English, German and French
Social skills and competences
2006 - German Language teaching assistant within a PON project; I taught basic German (A2) to children attending primary school, together with the official German teacher. I acquired very useful teaching and interactional strategies.
2005
I took part into a project called ‘The Language Village’, held at Casina Vernazza, Cavallino, which helped me improve my communicative skills, by speaking English, French and German to young learners (aged 6-10), by organising games in English and making them learn some poems and songs by heart.
Computer skills and competences
2006 - ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence).
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