Maria PAVESI,  Ph. D. in Linguistics from Edimburgh and Pavia, is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Pavia. Her research has addressed several topics in English applied linguistics and has focused on second language acquisition, the English of science, Corpus linguistics and film translation. Maria Pavesi has published very widely in these areas both nationally and internationally and she is the author of La traduzione filmica. Aspetti del parlato doppiato dall'inglese all'italiano, Roma, 2005. Maria Pavesi has taken partin various national and international projects and was the co-organiser of "Cinema Paradiso. I sottotitoli nell'apprendimento linguistico", a project on film subtitling in language learning co-financed by the EU in the European year of languages. Maria Pavesi was also one of the coordinators of a national project on corpora, audiovisual translation and second language learning. She is currently working on features of spoken language in film dubbing from English into Italian ("Spoken language in film dubbing: Target language norms, interferenceand translational routines", 2008).