Browsing Italian by Author "Nicora, Francesca"
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Captioning and revoicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language: A didactic proposal for children
Beltramello, Anastasia; Nicora, Francesca (Rutgers University, Department of Italian, 2020-12)No abstract available -
The corpus of Irish English speech
Nicora, Francesca (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 ... -
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
Dianetti, Michela; Nicora, Francesca (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 ... -
Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions
Nicora, Francesca; McLoughlin, Laura; Gili Fivela, Barbara (International Speech Communication Association, 2018-06-13)This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perceptionproduction training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are that an intensive prosodic training improves ... -
Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary
Gili Fivela, Barbara; Nicora, Francesca (Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV) and Officinaventuno, 2018)The present work investigates the intonation systems of two varieties of Italian spoken in Liguria, namely in La Spezia and Imperia, with the aims of 1) extending the existing knowledge on the intonation systems of ... -
La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell acquisizione dell italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti
Nicora, Francesca; McLoughlin, Laura; Gili Fivela, Barbara (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) and Officinaventuno, 2019)Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are scarce. This study aims at ... -
Moving online: Zoom and audiovisual translation tasks to teach foreign languages to children
Nicora, Francesca (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, ... -
Open educational resources for online language teacher training: conceptual framework and practical implementation
Nicora, Francesca; Bologna, Oriana; McLoughlin, Laura (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 ... -
A phonetic comparison of two Irish English varieties
Nicora, Francesca; Cenceschi, Sonia; Meluzzi, Chiara (International Society of Experimental Linguistics, 2020-10-12)This research offers a preliminary survey on vowels and diphthong variation between two Irish English varieties: Galway (GW) and Letterkenny (LK). The results showed only a smaller difference between GW and LK with respect ... -
Sottotitolaggio e apprendimento del vocabolario aziendale in italiano lingua straniera: uno studio esplorativo
Nicora, Francesca (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 ...