Journal club lab: an educational workshop experience in Educational Sciences PhD Course

This paper is the report of an educational workshop experience achieved at the “Parthenope” University in Naples and addressed to post graduating researchers at the PhD Course in Education Quality. The training experience also had the purpose to contribute to the accreditation of the Doctoral Programme at the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The described experience has been achieved through the “journal club” method and its main aim has been the development of useful scientific reading and writing proficiency to im- prove abilities to comprehend and produce scientific texts in foreign languages. Thus allowing the enhancement of our researchers’ scientific production on an international field. The fulfilled practice has also allowed developing several general considerations concerning useful abilities to increase the research qualities in the specific field of the PhD, pertaining to conception and planning, achieving and communicating terms, as well as the economical sustainability of the research especially in terms of fund-raising abilities. This factor has represented an assessment value that is not entirely negligible in the whole described experience.