Sandro Caruana was awarded his Ph.D. in Linguistics by the Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy) in 2001. He is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Arts & Languages in Education, where he lectures on Italian language teaching methodology. He also services the Faculty of Arts where he holds courses on Italian General Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Besides language teaching, his main areas of interest include trilingualism, language attitudes, second language acquisition and the Romance element in Maltese. He has participated in a number of international projects on intercultural communication and on the teaching of Italian as a foreign language.<BR> <BR> https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/sandrocaruana
