FABRIZIO
RUGGERI

Fabrizio Ruggeri has obtained his PhD, at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), with a thesis on the acquisition of Italian as a foreign language with social networks. Previously, she graduated in Humanities from the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. His research interests are focused on the use of digital technologies learning foreign languages; on the programming and evaluation of foreign language courses in face-to-face, blended and online modalities; on gamification in teaching processes. He is the author of teaching materials for the development of linguistic competences in Italian as a foreign language, and is involved in the training of language teachers, collaborating with European institutions and universities. He is one of the lecturers on the Master's Degree in Teacher Training at UCM, and at the same university he is a lecturer on the Master's Degree in Linguistics and Technologies and the Master's Degree in Digital Letters. At the UCM he is a member of the research group ‘Technological and didactic applications in Linguistics, discourse and corpus’ and has participated in numerous teaching innovation projects. He currently works in the Department of Romance, French, Italian, Basque and Translation Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the UCM, is Delegate of the Dean for Digital and IT Affairs, and is responsible for the Coordination of the Virtual Campus of the Faculty of Philology.