VS-32 BASICS OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE FOR THE FIELD OF TOURISM 3

In teaching foreign languages, she adopts a communicative and learner-centred approach based on the active use of language in tailored, authentic and problem-based situations. She pays particular attention to developing all four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing – and integrating them into meaningful communicative activities. In class, she uses adapted and authentic texts, various digital tools and modern learning resources, thereby encouraging independent and critical learning. An important component of her teaching is also the development of intercultural competence, as students learn about the cultural characteristics and communication patterns of the language they are studying. Lessons are based on collaboration, ongoing progress monitoring and reflection, and students are encouraged to use the language independently. She focuses her professional work on the region and its development as well as a wider area, while also encouraging and inspiring others to do the same. Her primary goal is to encourage and motivate students, and to present as many best practice examples as possible. Her lectures feature various guests who present different views related to the course topics, current events and development of society.

Tamara Mikolič Južnič is the Head of the Department of Translation at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She was the long-standing head of the chair of the Italian language, within which she has been teaching language and translation courses since 1998. She is a member of the Senate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, and co-editor of the international translation studies journal Stridon. She regularly attends international academic conferences, lectures as a visiting professor at universities abroad, and co-organizes the DOTTSS international doctoral summer school in translation studies. She is also a translator of technical and scientific texts between Slovenian, Italian and English.