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Amorati, Riccardo; Ferrari, Elisabetta; Hajek, John – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This study explores the effectiveness of podcasting as an approach to project-based and experiential learning implemented in an intermediate Italian studies unit at an Australian university. In the project, students are asked to write and record a podcast script on a topic related to their experience as university students or to events concerning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Language Acquisition, Handheld Devices
De Toni, Francesco – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
The relationship between the polite and conventional nature of friendly language and the sincerity of the writer's feelings is a central topic in linguistic and historical research on friendship in epistolary communication. This relationship can be understood in the context of the emotional values and conventionalised emotional practices that…
Descriptors: Authors, Friendship, Emotional Response, Language Usage
Bouvet, Eric; Cosmini, Daniela; Palaktsoglou, Maria; Vanzo, Lynn – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This article discusses a community engagement pilot program for language students offered at Flinders University. For a number of years, the "Language in Action" program has provided placement opportunities for language students in a range of community settings such as aged-care agencies and cultural associations. From an educational…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Heugh, Kathleen; Stroud, Christopher; Scarino, Angela – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the 'South', who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality and multilingualisms. Through three vignettes of journeys we illustrate how in changing of place that linguistic diversities…
Descriptors: Risk, Multilingualism, Well Being, Migration
Palmieri, Christiana – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This paper presents the findings from a study that examines the motivations of adult Australians of non-Italian origin to learn Italian in continuing education contexts in Sydney. The study embraces a view of motivation as a multifaceted phenomenon that is produced in a social environment through the interaction between the second language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Well Being, Adult Learning
Rubino, Antonia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article presents the findings of an online survey conducted amongst bi- (English, Italian) and trilingual (English, Italian and dialect) Italo-Australian youth, exploring self-assessed language competence, self-reported language choice in various communicative situations, and attitudes towards heritage languages. These young people appear…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Attitudes, Italian, Dialects
Marden, Mariolina Pais; Herrington, Jan – Educational Media International, 2020
This paper describes a research study that investigated foreign language students' collaborative practice in a blended, authentic learning environment. A group of intermediate and advanced level students of Italian at an Australian university interacted and collaborated with each other and with a group of native speaker mentors through a web-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Design
Pais Marden, Mariolina; Herrington, Jan – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Actively encouraging foreign language learners to establish a meaningful connection with the target language culture--by engaging in authentic activities with other learners and native speakers in real-world communicative contexts--is a critical goal of foreign language education. This paper describes a design-based research study that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
Cattani, Allegra; Floccia, Caroline; Kidd, Evan; Pettenati, Paola; Onofrio, Daniela; Volterra, Virginia – Language Learning, 2019
We report on an analysis of spontaneous gesture production in 2-year-old children who come from three countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Australia) and who speak two languages (Italian, English), in an attempt to tease apart the influence of language and culture when comparing children from different cultural and linguistic environments.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers, Cross Cultural Studies, Italian
Elena Polisca; Sascha Stollhans; Romain Bardot; Rollet, Cyrille – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This chapter examines the responses of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to assessment-related challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden move to online teaching and assessments required institutions to re-think their approaches to current practices and provide alternative solutions almost overnight. Our survey aimed to gather…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Integrity, Ethics
Strambi, Antonella; Luzeckyj, Ann; Rubino, Antonia – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This paper presents findings from the "Flourishing in a Second Language" (FL2) project--a language curriculum for first-year university students which integrates Positive Psychology (Seligman, 2002), Transition Pedagogy (Kift, 2009a), and CLIL principles (Coyle, 2006). The project aims to create learning experiences that are personally…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, College Freshmen, Italian, Well Being
Tudini, Vincenza; Strambi, Antonella – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2017
Focusing specifically on the negotiation of commonality, this study explores rapport building (Spencer-Oatey, 2000) in online intercultural text chat, where Australian students of Italian interact with L1 Italian speakers. Although the initial purpose of the examined chat exchanges is to facilitate L2 acquisition, analysis of transcripts indicates…
Descriptors: Italian, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Tsukada, Kimiko; Cox, Felicity; Hajek, John; Hirata, Yukari – Second Language Research, 2018
Learners of a foreign language (FL) typically have to learn to process sounds that do not exist in their first language (L1). As this is known to be difficult for adults, in particular, it is important for FL pedagogy to be informed by phonetic research. This study examined the role of FL learners' previous linguistic experience in the processing…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese, Italian
Gadd, Anna – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2016
Alderson teaches us that, "progress should be the aim of all learning". With the purpose of ensuring progress and enhancing first year students' learning of Italian as a second language, research into feedback and repair was undertaken at The University of Western Australia. The research--funded by the UWA Centre for the Advancement of…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian
Advertising to Italian English Bilinguals in Australia: Attitudes and Response to Language Selection
Santello, Marco – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article explores attitudes and response to language selection in advertising targeting Italian bilinguals who belong to a defined speech community. The research builds upon (i) research on multilingual advertising by investigating its attitudinal correlates, and (ii) studies on advertising to bilinguals through the verification of the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Attitudes, Language Fluency, Italian