SLA research

My interests in research regard mainly applied linguistics in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Learning field. The research approaches I prefer are qualitative, as Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Pragmatics. In the past years, both at Verona University and at the Second Language Studies Department of Hawaii University, both as a Fulbright visiting researcher and MA Program student, I conducted some studies and developed on-line materials in the area of information technologies and second language education. The technologies I am most interested in are Internet and the web, webchat, and synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC). Here are some of my publications available on-line, conference presentations, and on-line language activities I developed.For more informations, please see my resume.

On-line Papers and research studies

Language Learning and Technology Journal, Vol. 3 (1), 1999. "Web based activities and SLA: a conversation analysis aproach". (pp. 75-87).
National Foreign Language Research Center.
     "A conversational analysis approach to Internet Interaction for ESL learners" 2000. 5th CercleS International Conference "Integration Through Innovation – The Challenge Facing Language Centers in Europe", Conference proceedings
     (pp. 128-44). Plymouth, UK: Department of Modern Languages, University of Plymouth. http://www.cercles.org/

Presentations and activities for web-based language learning

Verona University Language Center Web Site: On-line language learning
Creation and webmastering of CLA's site section on on-line language learning, selection of SLA internet resources and creation of  customized material for language education.

On-line English Interactive Learning Activities
Reading and listening comprehension activities with javascript
created during my 3 years as assitant researcher In Verona Univ. Language Center (CLA).

SLRF 1998, Second Language Research Forum, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Paper presented: Web based Activities and SLA:an experimental research approach.

Motivazione e Tecniche di Creatività con la Multimedialità -  Multimedialità ed Educazione in Internet, one day seminar for LEND (Language Education and New Didactic) national association, University of Feltre, Faculty of Modern Languages and Linguistics, 1999.

Analysis of Web Sites for on-line Italian as L2 learning
Presentation at the International Conference
"La Lingua Italiana nel Mondo" University of Verona, 14 Apr. 1997

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