Dr. Eliona Naqo (Çeloaliaj) is an Albanian university professor and scholar specializing in the Italian language, culture, and foreign language didactics. She serves as a University Professor of Italian Language, Culture and Didactics at “Ismail Qemali” University of Vlora within the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities, where she has been teaching across all proficiency levels since September 2000. In addition to her university tenure, she has served as an Italian language instructor at the “Pavarësia” Industrial High School and manages Italian language and culture courses for the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) center in Vlora.Dr. Naqo completed her initial higher education in Italian language, culture, and literature at the University of Tirana (2000). She subsequently obtained a Professional Master’s degree in Didactics of Italian as a Non-Mother Language from the Università per Stranieri di Perugia (2009) and a Second-Level Master’s in Advanced Design in the Teaching of Italian Language and Culture for Foreigners from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2011). She earned her Ph.D. in Human Sciences (specializing in Linguistic Sciences) from the University of Tirana, focusing her dissertation on acquiring listening and speaking competencies from a didactic and evaluative perspective. She is also pursuing a second doctoral degree (“Doctor Europaeus”) at New Bulgarian University in Sofia, focusing on teacher education and oral language competence in foreign language didactics.Her research centers on foreign language teaching methodologies, oral communicative competence, digital tools in language education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and intercultural communication. Dr. Naqo has authored numerous research papers and conference proceedings published in international journals, including the International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE). She regularly presents at international academic conferences and is proficient in Albanian, Italian, English, and French.