RJA #5

RJA #5a: Books

Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Pascual José Masullo, Erin O'Rourke, and Chia-Hui Huang. Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected Papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15-18 March 2007. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub, 2009.

Barni, Monica, and Andrea Villarini. La questione della lingua per gli immigrati stranieri: insegnare, valutare e certificare l'italiano L2. Scienze della formazione, 39. Milano: F. Angeli, 2001.

Pichiassi, Mauro. Misurazione e valutazione di test d'italiano L2: aspetti docimologici e tecniche statistiche. Perugia: Guerra, 2000.

For all of the above book sources, I'm going to need to take a field trip to UC Boulder to find them in the library there. I know I could have them shipped all the way down to Denver, but it will be nice to get away for a bit.

For these books, I simply searched at the Auraria Library's website using the keywords: Italian L2. I got about 200 hits, searched on February 25, 2010, and the relevance of my hits were absolutely 5 out of 5--very related to what I'm researching. Hopefully actually reading these books will help me further narrow my topic.


RJA #5b: Periodical Aricles/Electronic Articles

Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching
Author(s): Vivian Cook
Source: TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 185-209
Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3587717
Accessed: 01/02/2010 22:42

Language and Linguistics in the Italian Curriculum: Towards the Integration of Language
Study and the Study of Language
Author(s): Diane Musumeci
Source: Italica, Vol. 73, No. 4, Linguistics and Pedagogy (Winter, 1996), pp. 493-507
Published by: American Association of Teachers of Italian
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/479503
Accessed: 28/01/2010 11:09

Beyond Learning Italian: Total Immersion for Cultural Diversity
Author(s): Diane Senior
Source: Italica, Vol. 75, No. 4, Linguistics and Pedagogy (Winter, 1998), pp. 517-531
Published by: American Association of Teachers of Italian
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/479610
Accessed: 28/01/2010 11:30

Fuori di classe! Una proposta didattica per l'insegnamento dell'italiano come lingua straniera
fuori dell'aula tradizionale
Author(s): Irene Marchegiani Jones
Source: Italica, Vol. 75, No. 4, Linguistics and Pedagogy (Winter, 1998), pp. 495-516
Published by: American Association of Teachers of Italian
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/479609
Accessed: 28/01/2010 11:37

Comparing the outcomes of online listening versus online text-based tasks in university level Italian L2 study
Authors: Matthew Absalom, Andrea Rizzi
Source: CALL 20(1): 55-66. 2008, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344008000517
Pages: 55-66

Cognitive task complexity and written output in Italian and French as a foreign language
Authors: Folkert Kuiken, Ineke Vedder
Source: Journal of Second Language Writing 17 (2008) 48–60.

Sensoni, Remo (1991). Verso l'italiano : insegnamento e apprendimento dell'italiano come seconda lingua (88-211-9107-9, 978-88-211-9107-7). Genova: Marietti.

Musumeci, Diane. "Language and Linguistics in the Italian Curriculum: Towards the Integration of Language Study and the Study of Language.". Italica (New York, N.Y.) (0021-3020), 73 (4), p. 493.

Oliva, Maurizio. "Internet Resources and Second Language Acquisition: An Evaluation of Virtual Immersion.". Foreign language annals (0015-718X), 28 (4), p. 551.

Vedovelli, Massimo (1999). Indagini sociolinguistiche nella scuola e nella società italiana in evoluzione (88-464-1609-0, 978-88-464-1609-4). Milano Italy: F. Angeli.

Obviously, I found a lot of electronic articles, because, in my opinion, these are easier to navigate than through books. However, I could be proven quite wrong after my field trip to Boulder.

These articles were all found using the articles search on the Auraria Library website. The keywords I used were: Italian foreign language education L2, and these few articles were some of several hundreds which I encountered. The relevance of the hits to my topic are, once again, 5/5. The website on which I found all of my electronic articles was http://www.jstor.org.


RJA #5c: Reference Articles

As far as reference articles are concerned, I'm still trying to discover non-scholarly journal research articles for my topic. It's a bit more difficult, being that the method through which an individual learns Italian as a foreign language is not a very common topic. For right now, I hope that it's okay if I only give my word that I will do my best to find reference articles, but at this point in my references search, have yet to find any.