Michela is an adjunct professor in Educational Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University in Italy and a research fellow for the prestigious EU-funded EcoStories CLIL training project. Currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of St Andrews, Michela focuses on exploring EMI teacher identity, an area that bridges Socio-psycholinguistics and education. Her research interests encompass teacher identity and development, CLIL, and the sociolinguistics of EMI settings. Michela has contributed to the academic discourse with her recent publication, “Language assessment in EMI: unravelling the implicit-explicit dichotomy” which examines the discrepancies between the official objectives of an Educational Linguistics module taught in English and its assessment criteria. Passionate about advancing knowledge in Educational Linguistics, Michela engages in participatory and creative research and has a strong commitment to supporting EMI teachers navigating multilingual classroom environments.