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Prosody in Second Language Acquisition, Geoprosodic Variation, Intonational Phonology, Transfer Phenomena and Interlanguage, Italian as a foreign language, Didactic Audiovisual Translation, Open Educational Resources, E-Learning and E-Teaching, Teacher Language Education
Ireland, Italy, Japan

Biography

Francesca Nicora is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway, Ireland.

Activities

Employment (7)

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2024-11-01 to present | Lecturer (above the bar) (Italian Studies)
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Francesca Nicora

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2023-01-04 to 2024-10-31 | Lecturer (below the bar) (Italian Studies)
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Francesca Nicora

Università per stranieri di Siena: Siena, IT

2024-01-08 to 2024-03-23 | Adjunct Lecturer (Master di secondo livello E-learning per l'insegnamento dell'italiano a stranieri (ELIIAS))
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Kobe University: Kobe, JP

2022-06-30 to 2022-12-30 | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (Graduate School of International Studies)
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Francesca Nicora

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2019-02-01 to 2022-06-30 | Research Assistant (Italian)
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Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2014-09-01 to 2022-06-30 | Teaching Assistant & Occasional Lecturer (Italian)
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Francesca Nicora

University for Foreigners of Siena: Siena, IT

2014-01-03 to 2014-06-01 | Instructor - Italian for foreigners (Centro Fast)
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Education and qualifications (9)

UDIMA: Madrid, ES

2023 to 2024 | Master in Audiovisual Translation (in collaboration with the Instituto Superior de Estudios Lingüísticos y Traducción ISTRAD)
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Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2020-09-01 to 2021-09-01 | Postgraduate Certification in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching -CELT)
Education
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Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway: Galway, IE

2014-09-01 to 2020-04-08 | PhD in Italian Studies (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures - Italian Discipline)
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University for Foreigners of Siena: Siena, Italia, IT

2014-09-05 | MA (Hons) in E-learning per l'insegnamento dell'italiano a stranieri (Master ELIIAS di secondo livello)
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University of Pisa: Pisa, Italia, IT

2013-04-22 | MA (Hons) in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Sofia University: Sofia, BG

2011 | Erasmus-Slavistics (9 months) (Department for language teaching and international students)
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Sofia University: Sofia, BG

2011 | Certificate: Bulgarian Language Level B2 (Department for Language Teaching and International Students Department for Language Teaching and International Students)
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Università di Pisa: Pisa, Italia, IT

2008 | B.A. (Hons) Degree - Linguistics curriculum B (Bulgarian and Russian) (Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica)
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Lomonosov Moscow State University: Moscow, RU

2008 | Certificate: Russian Language Level B2
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Professional activities (5)

University of Vienna: Vienna, AT

2022 | Best Poster Award, 2nd place: Sociolinguistic variation of the MOUTH dyphthong in two Irish English varieties (11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE))
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University of Galway: Galway, IE

2020 | European Doctorate Award (School of Languages, Cultures and Literatures)
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Leargas: Dublin, IE

2019 | Shortlisted for the European Language Label Award: “Learning Italian as a foreign language by captioning and revoicing cartoons”
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Irish Association for Applied Linguistics: Dublin, IE

2019 | IRAAL Postgraduate Award (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL))
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University of Salento: Lecce, IT

2017 to 2018 | Visiting PhD student (Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio (CRIL))
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Works (15)

Unlocking the potential of audiovisual translation in young audiences' language education

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences.
2025-01 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781032270623
Contributors: Francesca Nicora
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Francesca Nicora

Combining Prosodic-Pragmatic Training and Free Commentary to Develop Intonation Skills in Italian FL

Journal of Audiovisual Translation
2024-12-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora
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First Insights into Keyword Subtitling and Free Commentary Tasks to Enhance Children's Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

2024-08-12 | Book chapter
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Jennifer Lertola
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Higher Education and new trends in the digitalized labour market: broaden language students’ horizons

Visual Literacy and Digital Communication: The Role Of Media in New Educational Practices
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin; Oriana Bologna
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Francesca Nicora

Learning Italian dental affricates: A first survey on the production of Irish English speakers

roceedings of the 12th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, 18-19 June 2021, virtually at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Chiara Meluzzi; Lucia Sbacco
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Francesca Nicora

Open educational resources for online language teacher training: conceptual framework and practical implementation

International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin; Oriana Bologna
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The Corpus of Irish English Speech (IES)

Teanga
2022 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85138514699

Part of ISSN: 25656325 0332205X
Contributors: Nicora, F.
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Francesca Nicora via Scopus - Elsevier

Moving online: using Zoom and combined audiovisual translation tasks to teach foreign languages to children

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
2022-12-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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Captioning and revoicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language: A didactic proposal for children

The Journal of Language and Teaching Technology
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Anastasia Beltramello
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Francesca Nicora

Didattica performativa nella promozione della lingua e cultura italiana in Irlanda. Il corpo e la danza come strumenti di apprendimento e ponti tra culture

Italiano LinguaDue
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Michela Dianetti
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Francesca Nicora

Sottotitolaggio e apprendimento del vocabolario aziendale in italiano lingua straniera: uno studio esplorativo

Italiano a Stranieri
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesca Nicora
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Francesca Nicora

A phonetic comparison of two Irish English varieties

The 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 12-14 October 2020, Athens, Greece
2020 | Conference paper
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Chiara Meluzzi; Sonia Cenceschi
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La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell’acquisizione dell’italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti.

Studi AItLA 9. Lingua in Contesto. La prospettiva pragmatica.
2019 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-88-97657-30-9
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Barbara Gili Fivela; Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin
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Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary

Studi AISV 4: Il Parlato nel Contesto Naturale. Speech in the Natural Context, Methods for the Analysis of Speech Under Real Communicative Conditions
2018 | Book chapter
Part of ISSN: 2612-226X
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Barbara Gili Fivela
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Francesca Nicora

Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions

The 9th International Conference in Speech Prosody, Adam Mickiewicz University, 13-16 June 2018, Poznan, Poland
2018 | Conference paper
Contributors: Francesca Nicora; Barbara Gili Fivela; Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin
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