Francesco Vallerossa- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at University of Pisa
Francesco Vallerossa
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at University of Pisa
I am currently involved in a project on grammar books of Italian and Italian as a second language
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Introduction
Francesco Vallerossa is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pisa. He holds a PhD in Language Education from Stockholm University with a thesis on the multilingual acquisition of tense-aspect systems in Italian. His research interests are language teaching and learning focusing on multilingualism from a broad perspective, including intercomprehension and sociolinguistic variation in learner interlanguage.
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September 2018 - March 2023
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Lo studio della temporalità in relazione alla selezione dei tempi perfettivi ed imperfettivi in italiano richiede cautela dato che tale scelta è raremente univoca. Se condotto in prospettiva plurilingue, lo studio dell’apprendimento delle categorie tempo-aspettuali presenta ulteriori sfide legate alla complessità dei repertori linguistici degli app...
The study examines how three undergraduate beginner students of Italian as L3 make sense of Italian tense-aspect morphology based on other languages. All students had knowledge of Swedish, English, and French, in each case acquired in a particular chronological order. The participants completed two C-tests and three interpretation tests of aspectua...
The study investigates the reflections on tempo-aspectual morphology in Italian expressed by undergraduate multilingual learners with previous knowledge of Swedish and a Romance language (N = 22). The reflections of the participants, who were divided into four groups depending on a combination of proficiency in their background Romance language and...
The study examines the role played by English and Romance languages (L2s) when learning grammatical aspect in Italian as additional language (Ln). Swedish university students of Italian ( n = 34), divided according to knowledge of a Romance L2 and English aspectual knowledge, completed an interpretation task of aspectual contrast in Italian. Eight...
The study examines how prototypes and typological relationships between the L1, the L2 and the target language (TL) interact with TL proficiency in learning Italian as additional language. Low-proficiency and high-proficiency undergraduate learners of Italian (N = 25) with Swedish as L1 performed an oral retelling story test, aiming to elicit the I...
