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Open educational resources for online language teacher training: conceptual framework and practical implementation
(AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2022)This paper discusses a conceptual framework for the design of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for online language teacher training including an example of practical implementation. The authors identify in the principles ... -
Moving online: Zoom and audiovisual translation tasks to teach foreign languages to children
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2022-12-12)Este artículo explora la estructura de un curso de idiomas basado en Traducción Audiovisual (TAV) con el objetivo de adecuarlo para su impartición a niños en un entorno virtual. Dado el potencial de los programas audiovisuales, ... -
The corpus of Irish English speech
(Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2022-09-20)The past years have witnessed the collection of various corpora for the study of Irish English (IE). Most have been developed and driven by diverse research foci with a specific aim in mind, however, at present data sources ... -
Captioning and revoicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language: A didactic proposal for children
(Rutgers University, Department of Italian, 2020-12)No abstract available -
Dance, multilingual repertoires and the Italian landscape: asylum seekers’ narratives in an arts-based project
(Routledge, 2021-12-27)This article examines the impact that an arts project had on the relationship between a group of asylum seekers and the Italian town where they live. The project brought together local youth and asylum seekers to engage ... -
Sottotitolaggio e apprendimento del vocabolario aziendale in italiano lingua straniera: uno studio esplorativo
(Edizioni Edilingua, 2021)Il presente articolo intende delineare le potenzialità della traduzione audiovisiva e promuove l’attività del sottotitolaggio interlinguistico nell’apprendimento del vocabolario aziendale nella classe di italiano ... -
Didattica performativa nella promozione della lingua e cultura Italiana in Irlanda: il corpo e la danza come strumenti di apprendimento linguistico e ponti tra culture
(Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022-01-26)Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un progressivo interesse riguardo all’impiego delle arti performative in campo glottodidattico. Tale tendenza è dovuta ad approcci didattici sempre più orientati alla dimensione sociale ... -
Okra in translation: Asylum seekers, food, and integration
(John Benjamins, 2021-06-18)This article explores the theme of food translation, based on research conducted in Italy in 2018 with a group of asylum seekers from different West African countries. It concentrates on a community gardening project ... -
Translating the village: Translation as part of the everyday lives of asylum seekers in Italy
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2020-10-27)This article explores translation in the lives of asylum seekers from various African countries living in state-provided accommodation in the region of Umbria, Italy. While (semi) professional translators and interpreters ... -
How do you say kélén-kélén in Italian? Migration, landscape and untranslatable food
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-09-19)ABSTRACTThis article discusses translation and migrant (in)visibility in Italy in the context of the so-called migrant and refugee crisis, using food as a key element in the redefinition of the asylum seekersâ cultural ... -
"Saving Venice": local, global and transnational perspectives on cultural heritage in children's fantasy
(MDPI, 2019-05-29)Children s literature has always been heavily influenced by the local and national climate in which it is produced, the birth of this literature having coincided in many places with the formation of the nation-state. Over ... -
The languages of transnationalism: translation, training, and transfer
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2016-02-01)In the flows and connections that are central to transnational studies, language is a conduit that facilitates transfers; it allows for the movement of ideas and people across national and linguistic boundaries. In the ... -
Petrarch goes west: translation and the literary canon
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-08)This article addresses the translation of Petrarch's work on the Western fringes of Europe demonstrating how the appropriation and transformation of the European literary canon served domestic ends in Ireland in the ... -
A voyage into Catholicism: Irish travel to Italy in the nineteenth century
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-19)The analysis of travel writing and Italy has often focused on the beauty, the history and the heritage of the country; this essay argues that religion was a key element in depictions of the country and that this was ... -
Historicized fiction or fictionalized history?: Lia Levi's Cecilia va alla guerra and the legacy of the First World War in contemporary Italian children's literature
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017-04)Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ... -
Triumphant failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade
(Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)In early 1860, Italian unification was gaining momentum and Pope Pius IX, the temporal ruler of large parts of central Italy, feared an invasion of his extensive territories by the troops of Victor Emanuel of Piedmont ... -
That dangerous serpent: Garibaldi and Ireland 1860 - 1870
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-09-28)This article analyses the reaction to Garibaldi in Ireland during the Risorgimento, a reaction which, in its negativity, generally contrasted with the Italian's heroic depiction elsewhere. Attitudes towards Garibaldi ... -
Translating the Vatican: Paul Cullen, power and language in nineteenth-century Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-29)This paper examines how one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, Cardinal Paul Cullen, used language and translation to further his career and his vision for the Catholic Church in this period. ... -
Beyond the four walls: community based learning and languages
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-09-20)At a time when languages in universities are under pressure, community-based learning language courses can have many positive benefits: they can increase interest in language learning, they can foster greater engagement ... -
Dante Alighieri from absence to stony presence: building memories in nineteenth-century Florence
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-12)The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early ...