Francesca Nicora- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer in Italian at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
Francesca Nicora
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Lecturer in Italian at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
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Introduction
Lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway, Ireland.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2014 - June 2022
Position
- PhD Student - Language Assistant & Research Assistant
January 2014 - September 2014
June 2022 - December 2022
Education
September 2020 - September 2021
September 2014 - December 2019
September 2013 - September 2014
Field of study
- E-Learning and e-teaching Italian as a foreign language
Publications
Publications (32)
Prosodic skills are a fundamental component of language learning but are notoriously difficult to develop due to the highly variable nature of prosody itself. In the burgeoning research field of didactic audiovisual translation, free commentary (FC) appears to be a less-studied modality of revoicing in the foreign language (FL) classroom. The main...
The effectiveness of Didactic Audiovisual Translation (DAVT) tasks in foreign language learning have long been acknowledged (Lertola, 2019). Indeed, a large body of research in this field has been focusing on university students and only a restricted number of investigations have regarded secondary and primary school students (Fernández Costales, 2...
This paper examines the reshaping of an audiovisual translation (AVT)-focused language course to make it suitable for children in an online context. Captioning and revoicing have shown to be powerful tools, given the potential of rich, contextualised audiovisual input to keep learners' motivation high, promote well-being and facilitate foreign lang...
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 of micro-and macro-learning, cognitive load theory and Threshold Concepts (TCs), the key elements that lead to the creation of e...
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by diverse research foci with a specific aim in mind, however, at present data sources consist of unavailable and/or outdated audio files of English spoken primarily in Dublin and Belfast. Additionally, a very lim...
This study address the need to re-design the future of Higher Education curricula to enhance language students' career planning skills and offer programmes of study that comply with new trends in the digitalized labour market. Students should be required to complete task whose outcomes are usable in the real world, so that learning experiences mirr...
This is a preliminary report on a research conducted on the MOUTH dyphthong as realized by Irish English speakers of different varieties, with a special focus on North-Eastern varieties. A first perceptive experiment has also been proposed, to also emphasize possible linguistic stereotypes associated to different realization of MOUTH.
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 e non verbale della comunicazione. Tuttavia, per il momento ci sono ancora pochi studi nell’ambito glottodidattico sull’utilizzo...
The past years have witnessed the collection of various corpora for the study of Irish English. By far the most recent data sources containing audio files of the English spoken in Ireland are presented in two speech corpora. Firstly, the Sound Atlas of Irish English (Hickey, 2004), easily accessed online, contains over 1,500 recordings made between...
This contribution presents the Lilac Project, sponsored by the National Forum for Teaching and Learning and currently being carried out at NUI Galway. Lilac addresses the transition from traditional face-to-face teaching and learning to e-teaching and e-learning.
Experience at NUI Galway shows that technical issues in online learning environments a...
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 to the monophthongs, whereas a larger difference was found for the MOUTH diphthong. Despite the great amount of literature on E...
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 investigating the effects of a prosodic-pragmatic training on Hiberno-
English learners of Italian. Preliminary results indicate that le...
This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perception-production training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are that an intensive prosodic training improves the production of Italian-L2 prosody regarding both 1) the lexical stress patterns and 2) the intonation patterns, in terms of...
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 varieties of Italian, and 2) checking if it is possible to detect similarities/differences in systems found in relatively close areas w...
