Staff

Discover our fantastic team

The staff at Istituto Italia CL Aps work using Italian language from the first day of the course. To communicate efficently, it is important to learn how to use the language, the right intonation, gestures, facial expressions and body language. We believe that a language is not just grammar to translate information from your mother tongue into Italian. Our language tutors will teach you how to use it and in which situations. We don’t impose a teaching method to all our students because each student is different, has different needs and needs special attention. We adjust our method to each group teaching Italian language & culture with a special stress to Neapolitan traditions.

Needless to say that all our language teachers are qualified to teach Italian as a foreign language.

Laura Rasmussen

Teacher

Laura Rasmussen is the President of Istituto Italia CL Aps. She actively deals with teaching both on-line and in-classroom, in addition to carrying out administrative functions. Laura holds a degree as interpreter and translator from University of Vienna and the DITALS II certification in teaching Italian as a foreign language.

Ornella Gaele

Teacher

Ornella Gaele has a Literature Bachelor Degree and she is a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certified teacher. She has tought Italian as a foreign language in Perù and voluntereed in Pisa (Italy) as Italian teacher for refugees and immigrants before joining Istituto Italia CL Aps as a member teacher in 2018.

Livia Oreste

Teacher

Livia Oreste collaborates with us since 2012 and she is our one-to-one and group online member-teacher. Livia is a DITALS II certified teacher in Italian as a foreing language.

Francesca De Simone

Teacher

Graduated in Teaching Italian Language and Culture to Foreigners from the University L'Orientale in Naples in 2023, Francesca cooperated with a charity and did her internship in a public school teaching Italian to immigrants. After a 7-month-experience as teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language in a school with headquarter in Salerno, she started her cooperation with Istituto Italia CL Aps in April 2024.

Rita Otranto

Teacher

Graduated in Teaching Italian Language and Culture to Foreigners from the University L'Orientale in Naples in 2022, Rita cooperated with a charity teaching Italian to immigrants and she did her internship at the University L'Orientale teaching Italian to Erasmus students. In October 2023 she finished her Master in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language. Since April 2024 she cooperates with us.

Adele Bagnasco

Teacher

After graduating from the Univeristà per Stranieri of Siena in 2023 in Teaching Italian to Foreigners she obtained the Cedils certification in teaching. After an internship she started cooperating with us in November 2023.