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Grazia, Valentina; Molinari, Luisa – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
In this article, we present a multidimensional school climate questionnaire, based on an adaptation and validation of the Socio-Educational Environment Questionnaire, which is an instrument developed in Canada, assessing several dimensions of school climate. In particular, the aim of this research was to create a Multidimensional School Climate…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Italian, Test Construction, Test Validity
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De Stefani, Elwys – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examines head nods produced as embodied and silent answers to polar questions before a transition relevance place has been reached. It discusses the notion of "response" and the ways in which the literature conceptualizes head nods. The analysis of video recordings of ordinary and institutional multiparty interactions shows…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, French, Italian, Video Technology
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Caruso, Marinella; Fraschini, Nicola – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study explores language learners' motivation from the perspective of vision, a concept that has specifically been identified as one of the next challenges for motivation research. Having conceptualized vision as a powerful motivational component of the language learning process, and focusing on the learner's individual perspective, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Italian
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Tarchi, Christian; Surian, Alessio – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
Universities have been promoting study abroad programmes for a long time to improve intercultural competence. However, the mere exposure to cultural differences while studying abroad does not ensure intercultural competence, unless study abroad students' reflective processes are explicitly targeted. The article presents the results of a short…
Descriptors: Universities, College Students, Cultural Awareness, Acculturation
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Antonella Strambi; Anna Gadd; Ann Luzeckyj; Antonia Rubino; Javier Díaz Martínez – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a pilot implementation of the FL2 approach and resources, developed to support tertiary students' wellbeing as well as their second language learning (L2). The FL2 approach and learning activities were piloted in two Spanish language courses at Australian universities. Evaluation data were collected through an online survey…
Descriptors: Spanish, Well Being, Second Language Learning, College Students
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Andrea Bruera; Yuan Tao; Andrew Anderson; Derya Çokal; Janosch Haber; Massimo Poesio – Cognitive Science, 2023
The meaning of most words in language depends on their context. Understanding how the human brain extracts contextualized meaning, and identifying where in the brain this takes place, remain important scientific challenges. But technological and computational advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence now provide unprecedented…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Artificial Intelligence, Diagnostic Tests
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Alberto Parola; Dize Hilviu; Sara Vivaldo; Andrea Marini; Diego Di Lisi; Patrizia Consolino; Francesca Marina Bosco – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Cochlear Implants (CIs) enhance linguistic skills in deaf or hard of hearing children (D/HH). However, the benefits of CIs have not been sufficiently studied, especially with regard to communicative-pragmatics, i.e., the ability to communicate appropriately in a specific context using different expressive means, such as language and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Pragmatics
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Amorati, Riccardo; Hajek, John – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article presents the results of a mixed-method study that investigated the impact of an innovative project-based learning module, entitled "I am an author," on students' motivation and creativity, and also examined its positive and negative aspects emerging from students' evaluations. As part of this module, advanced learners of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Creativity, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Cravotta, Alice; Busà, M. Grazia; Prieto, Pilar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Previous studies have investigated the effects of the inability to produce hand gestures on speakers' prosodic features of speech; however, the potential effects of encouraging speakers to gesture have received less attention, especially in naturalistic settings. This study aims at investigating the effects of encouraging the production…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Speech, Language Patterns, Language Fluency
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Miriam Geiss; Maria F. Ferin; Theo Marinis; Tanja Kupisch – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker's belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Italian, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
William G. Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To date, most classroom-based research into the learning of a third language (L3) in the US has examined patterns of acquisition among various groups of bilinguals. Situated mainly within the context of "Portuguese for Spanish Speakers" (PSS), studies typically group learners based on the sequence / age of onset of their main background…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Portuguese
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Fiorentino, Alice – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In this paper a context where receptive multilingualism represents a communicative strategy of adjustment in a context of second language acquisition is discussed. The traditional scope of receptive multilingualism has been extended to multilingual environments resulting from an experience of mobility, namely transnational adoptive families.…
Descriptors: Adoption, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Family Environment
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Aski, Janice M.; Jiang, Xinquan; Weintritt, April D. – Modern Language Journal, 2023
This article describes a research study of a three-semester elementary Italian language curriculum at a large Midwestern research university that incorporates intercultural competence (IC) training through cognitive dissonance image analyses, conversations with native speakers, classroom discussion, and reflections to determine the impact of this…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Cultural Awareness
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Giulia Negretto; Borbala Gaspar – Dimensions, 2023
Focusing on two beginner Italian courses, this study demonstrates participants' perceptions of and engagement with social justice topics and materials in a semester-long project. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of surveys, triangulated with interviews and artifacts, such as comments by students during lessons and in their video responses,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Social Justice, Student Attitudes
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Cairncross, Alex; Dal Pozzo, Lena – First Language, 2022
While previous work on postverbal subjects in Italian has shown that young children are sensitive to the effects of argument structure and definiteness, little is known about the acquisition of postverbal subjects at the VP-periphery. In response, the present study investigated such subjects under new-information focus by monolingual Italian…
Descriptors: Italian, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Adults
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