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Stefania Spina; Irene Fioravanti; Luciana Forti; Fabio Zanda – Second Language Research, 2024
This article introduces the CELI corpus, a new learner corpus of written Italian consisting of ca. 600,000 tokens, evenly distributed among CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) proficiency levels B1, B2, C1 and C2. The collected texts derive from the language certification exams administered by the University for Foreigners…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Best Practices
Coulange, Sylvain; Jouannaud, Marie-Pierre; Cervini, Cristiana; Masperi, Monica – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Since 2012 an interdisciplinary and culturally heterogeneous team composed of more than 30 people has been engaged in the complex process of conceiving, designing and validating an online placement test with formative orientation called SELF (Système d'Evaluation en Langues à visée Formative), developed and already deployed in six different…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Multilingualism
Martelli, Barbara – Research-publishing.net, 2021
On March 23rd, at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), all lectures were suspended for a week. During this time, both students and staff made a considerable effort to prepare the online delivery of courses. In this chapter we discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the Italian beginners courses offered in Semester 1. With no certainty of when the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian
Zanini, Sergio; Angeli, Valentina; Tavano, Alessandro – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We report on the case of an elderly bilingual woman presenting with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. The participant's native language was Friulian (L1), a predominantly oral Romance language, and her second language was Italian (L2), formally learned at primary school in oral and written forms. We investigated her linguistic abilities…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Aphasia
Martin, Anne L. – 1989
Two Australian language curriculum development projects are discussed: the Australian Language Levels (ALL) Project and the National Assessment Framework for Languages at Senior Secondary Level (NAFLSSL). While distinct, both projects are closely linked. Each project was launched in 1985 in a favorable climate and in response to cost, enrollment,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Italian

Cafarella, Caterina – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Investigates, within the context of the question-answer framework of a foreign language oral proficiency test, the interactive nature of spoken discourse between Canadian students and assessors when there is trouble in talk as perceived by the assessors, with a focus on how they accommodate to the students. The study has implications for rater…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Evaluators, Foreign Countries