Language learning with physical activity: The case of learning Italian in tourism [PDF]
The aim of the paper is to present how movement improves language learning in the case of rehearsing regular and irregular Italian verbs. In the paper we address the importance of language learning in the frame of Language for Special Purposes (LSP ...
Mojca Kompara Lukančič
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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]
Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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In this paper, we present complete mitochondrial genome of the Italian legless lizard species Anguis veronensis Pollini, 1818. The complete mtDNA consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, and two rRNA genes which in total formed a DNA strand of 17 ...
Tomasz Strzała +5 more
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Student Perceptions of Language Advising as a Complement to the Flipped Classroom
The flipped classroom was implemented in an intermediate-level Italian class in the Philippines. Owing to the difficulties of the flipped classroom as described by existing literature, which includes a general lack of genuine motivation to access the ...
Danica Anna D. Guban-Caisido
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Ask a question! How Italian children with cochlear implants produce subject and object wh-questions [PDF]
Syntax is impaired in individuals with cochlear implants (CIs). Several studies have shown that Italian speaking children fitted with CIs have troubles with relative clauses (Volpato and Adani 2009, Volpato 2010, Volpato 2012, Volpato and Vernice 2014 ...
Francesca Volpato, Silvia D’Ortenzio
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An Approach to Assessing the Linguistic Difficulty of Tasks
This article proposes an approach to assessing the linguistic difficulty of tasks, that is, the linguistic features involved in performing a communicative task that may make it more or less challenging for language learners.
Gabriele Pallotti
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The Interlanguage of Persian Learners of Italian: a Focus on Complex Predicates [PDF]
This paper aims at investigating the acquisition of Italian complex predicates by native speakers of Persian. Complex predication is not as pervasive a phenomenon in Italian as it is in Persian.
Francesca Frontini +1 more
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Functional assessment of cancer therapy questionnaire for breast cancer (FACT-B+4): Italian version validation [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Improvements in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment led to an increased incidence of survivors' rate. The healthcare system has to face new problems related not only to the treatment of the disease, but also to the management of the ...
Aceti, V +9 more
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Phraseological units in the Italian novel Io non ho paura by Niccolò Ammaniti and their equivalents in the Serbian translation [PDF]
This paper examines phraseological units in the Italian novel Io non ho paura by Niccolò Amaniti and their equivalents in its Serbian translation Ne bojim se.
Blatešić Aleksandra R. +1 more
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
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