Rockenhaus Melanie
Melanie Rockenhaus
Collaboratrice Esperta di lingua inglese
Palazzo della Carovana , Piano 4, stanza 105
tel. 050 509266 (during office hours)
fax. 050 563513
e-mail: rockenhaus@sns.it
Collaboratrice Esperta di lingua inglese
Palazzo della Carovana , Piano 4, stanza 105
tel. 050 509266 (during office hours)
fax. 050 563513
e-mail: rockenhaus@sns.it
Specializzata nell'insegnamento agli adulti, ho insegnato presso aziende/scuole: Telecom, Montedison, Chiron, Wall Street Institute; enti: Confindustria, IAL; università: l’Università Popolare di Siena, la Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, e l’University of Maryland dove collaboro tutt’ora come Adjunct Professor.
Il docente
Websites translated
- Scuola Normale Superiore:
www.sns.it: first English translation, and all updates until 2010 - Giovanni Battista Amici: optical instrument maker, astronmer and naturalist: http://gbamici.sns.it
- Mnamon: Ancient Writing Systems: http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Home&lang=en
- Philosophical Libraries:
http://picus.sns.it/biblioteche_dei_filosofi/index.php?page=Home&lang=en
Books translated
- Guide to the museum, Siena, Santa Maria della Scala (1999)
- Student Guidebook of the Scuola Normale Superiore (2004)
- Student Guidebook of the Scuola Normale Superiore (2006)
- Argentuccio & Co.: Chemistry on a treasure hunt, by Gianni Fochi (2004)
Other translations
- most of the application documents to the Scuola Nornale Superiore: http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/ammissione/corsoordinario
http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/ammissione/corsodiperfezionamento - explanatory panels and placards for the Santa Maria della Scala Museum (1999)
- additional exhibit materials for Santa Maria della Scala Museum (2002)
Papers presented / published
- ESOL Placement Testing: Face Validity at Standardized Language Testing in Teaching and Research conference, at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2010.
- Using Communicative Language Teaching Methods while Teaching Writing for High-Stakes Exams at FLOW II: Foreign Language Writing, University of Łódź, Poland, 2011
- Teaching writing for exams at TESOL-Italy’s 36th National Convention in Rome, 2011.
- Review of: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics, 2nd edition, ed. Norbert Schmitt (2010), Oxford University Press. In The Linguist List, 2011,
- “Placement Test Face Validity” in RILA: Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata




