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Invited Guest Lecturers

41. The Mistral project: Open Educational Resources for language learning made by students for students. 10th November 2021. Open Scholarship Cafè on Open Educational Resources examples fromOER Pilot Project. James Hardiman Library, University of Galway, Ireland.

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40. I vantaggi dei testi multimediali: la traduzione audiovisiva nella classi di lingua. 24th September 2021. Settimana delle Lingue, Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti Lingue Straniere (ANILS), Italy.

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39. Prosody and didactic practices: the role of the contrastive phonological analysis of two language varieties (L1 and FL) for pedagogical purposes. 5th December 2020. Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.

 

Invited Seminars

38. Acquisizione della prosodia delle lingue straniere. 18th October 2022. Università degli studi di Milano, Italy.

 

37. Audiovisual activities for children: new insights into language learning. Summer School, The Japan Foundation Kansai Center, Osaka, 17-19 August 2022.

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36. Prosody and language learning: the case of Irish English learners of Italian.

29th July 2022. Graduate School of International Studies, Kobe University, Japan.

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35. Contrastive phonological analysis and language learning: exploring polar questions in Irish English and Italian varieties. 10th July 2022. Graduate School of International Studies, Kobe University, Japan.

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34. Prosody and language acquisition. 18th March 2021. The Centre of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM), University of Galway, Ireland.

 

33. The effectiveness of explicit prosodic training in Italian as a foreign language. 26th October 2020. Universitat de Barcelona, Grup d’Estudis de Pròsodia.

 

312 Using Open Educational Resources to enhance foreign language learning and teaching in an online environment. 14th October 2020. University of Galway, Ireland.

 

31. An interactive introduction to language learning. 30th September 2020. University of Galway, Ireland.

 

Conference Presentations (Oral Presentations and Posters)​

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  • 30. VII Congres Internacional Ciencia y Traducción, 'Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Creativity'. [Oral Presentation], Universidad de Córdoba (Spain) in collaboration with the University of Salento (Italy). 22-24 MAY 24.​​

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  • 29. Languages Connect Annual Meeting, 'Summer Camp in Italian 1st edition'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Hub Dublin (Ireland). 11 APRIL 24.​​

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  • 28. The 4th annual conference of the Translation Studies Network in Ireland: 'Translation and Creativity', University of Galway. 'Creative subtitling in the Italian language classroom: an analysis of undergraduate students' perceptions on the challenges and benefits of the learning progress'. [Poster Presentation], University of Galway, University of Galway, Ireland , 25-26 APRIL 24.

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  • 27. Congreso Internacional de Paratraducción, Interlinguas y Transmedia (ParatradIT), 'Combining explicit perception-production training and creative audiovisual translation tasks to develop prosodic competence in Italian as a foreign language'. [Oral Presentation], University of Vigo, Spain. 20-22 MARCH 24.

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  • 26. Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway. 'Learning of FL prosody and efficacy of explicit perception-production training: An experiment on Italian FL by Hiberno-English speakers'. [Oral Presentation], Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, University of Galway, Ireland , 13-OCT-23.

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  • 25. Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway. 'Didactic Audiovisual Translation for Children: A New Gateway to a Better Language Education'. [Oral Presentation], Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, University of Galway, Ireland , 13-OCT-23.

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  • 24. SLLC Research Day Mel Boland In Memoriam, Session 4: Linguistics and Translation. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], SLLC Research Day Mel Boland In Memoriam, Room GO10, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway, Ireland , 19-APR-23.

 

  • 23. ‘Acoustic cues of Italian dental affricates as produced by LS learners’, 9th International Conference on Experimental Phonetics (CIFE), University of Vigo, Spain, 21-23 June 2023.

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  • 22. 'Audiovisual Translation and foreign language vocabulary acquisition: a study on children learners of Italian', [Oral Presentation] 1st International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain, 22-24 March 2023.

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  • 21. ‘Sociolinguistic variation of the MOUTH diphthong in two Irish English varieties’, 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE), University of Vienna, Austria, 12-14 April 2022. [2nd place Poster Award]

 

  • 20. ‘The corpus of Irish English Speech (IES)’, [Oral Presentation] Applying Linguistics in the 21st Century. The 2020 IRAAL Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 25-26 November 2021.

 

  • 19. ‘The LILAC project: helping language teachers and learners to master online environments’, [Oral Presentation] Applying Linguistics in the 21st Century. The 2020 IRAAL Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 25-26 November 2021.

 

  • 18. ‘Training the Teachers, Engaging the Learners: the Lilac project’, [Oral Presentation] Research Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, Ireland, 06 July 2021.

 

  • 17. ‘Performative Arts in the promotion of Italian language and culture in Galway city and county: the TRA-Balliamo project’, [Oral Presentation] Research Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, Ireland, 06 July 2021.

 

  • 16. ‘The MISTRAL project: new perspectives on language and education’, [Oral Presentation] Research Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, Ireland, 06 July 2021.

 

  • 15. ‘Production of Italian dental affricates by Irish English learners’, [Oral Presentation] 12th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Brock University, Ontario, Canada, 18-19 June 2021.

 

  • 14. ‘Insegnare lingue online: sfide pratiche, risvolti teorici e necessità formative’, [Oral Presentation] The Canadian Association for Italian Studies. Annual Conference, Online, 04-05 June 2021.

 

  • 13. ‘Open Educational Resources for online language teacher training: conceptual framework and practical implementation’, [Oral Presentation] EdTech 2021 Shaping Education Post Pandemic: Pockets of Innovation for ‘Building Back Better’, Online, 27-28 May 2021.

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  • 12. ‘Moving online: using Zoom and audiovisual translation activities to e-teach Italian foreign language to children’, [Oral Presentation] International Conference on visual literacy and digital communication: the role of media in new educational practice, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 18-19 December 2020.

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  • 11. ‘The Lilac project: enhancing students career planning skills through an interactive online module, virtual training and new assessment models’, [Oral Presentation] International Conference on visual literacy and digital communication: the role of media in new educational practice, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 18-19 December 2020.

 

  • 10. ‘The Lilac project: Open Educational Resources to train language teachers in online teaching and assessments’, [Oral Presentation] 5th International techLING Congress – Languages, Linguistics and Technology, University of Aveiro, Portugal, 15-16 October 2020.

 

  • 9. 'A phonetic comparison of two Irish English varieties’, [Oral Presentation] 11th Conference of Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece, 12-14 October 2020.

 

  • 8. ‘Prosodic training in L2: a study with Hiberno-English learners of Italian’, [Oral Presentation] Threatening Languages in a Global World, IRAAL Annual Conference, University of Galway, Ireland, 30 November 2019, Galway, Republic of Ireland.

 

  • 7. ‘Designing a subtitling module for students of Italian for specific purposes’, [Oral Presentation] Crossing Boundaries in Language Teaching: Northern Ireland and Beyond LTNI19 Conference, Queen’s University, 3-4 May 2019, Belfast, United Kingdom U.K.

 

  • 6. ‘Prosodic convergence toward the native model: the effect of explicit prosodic training in L2-Italian’. [Poster Presentation] Workshop on Accommodation in Speech Communication, 13 December 2018, Zurich, Switzerland.

 

  • 5. ‘Captioning and re-voicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language. A didactic proposal for children’, [Oral Presentation] Languages, Linguistics and Technology, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, 2-4 October, 2018 Lisbon, Portugal.

 

  • 4. ‘La Lunigiana tra Liguria e Toscana: quale situazione linguistica ci offre l’analisi delle caratteristiche intonative?’, [Oral Presentation] Le tendenze dell’italiano contemporaneo rivisitate, LII Congresso SLI 2018, 6-8 September 2018, Berna, Switzerland.

 

  • 3. ‘Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions’ [Oral Presentation] The 9th International Conference in Speech Prosody, Adam Mickiewicz University, 13-16 June 2018, Poznan, Poland.

 

  • 2. ‘La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell’acquisizione dell’italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti’, [Oral Presentation] Language in Context: The Pragmatic Perspective. XVIII International Conference of the Italian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Roma Tre, 22-24 February 2018, Rome, Italy.

 

  • 1. ‘Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary’, [Oral Presentation] Speech in the natural Context, Methods for the analysis of Speech Under Real Communicative Conditions. XIV AISV Conference, The Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, 25-27 January 2018, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

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