Borbala Samu

Borbala Samu
Professore di II fascia
L-LIN/02
Dipartimento di Lingua, letteratura e arti italiane nel mondo (LILAIM)
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Nota biografica: 

Borbala Samu is Associate Professor of Didactics of modern languages. She teaches Language education and Intercultural communication at the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses and Intercultural pragmatics and Cognitive linguistics at the PhD course. She is involved in training and refresher courses for language teachers abroad and in Italy. She coordinates the second level Master's degree course in Teaching Italian as a foreign language and participates in various national and international research projects (including the LMOOC4Slav project). Her research concerns the application of Cognitive Grammar to language teaching, the development and assessment of pragmatic competence in L2, the development of language teaching methodologies and techniques to foster intercultural communication in multilingual and multi-ethnic learning contexts, and in technology enhanced language learning environments.

Aree di ricerca: 
Technology Enhanced Language Learning
Pragmatics
Language teacher training
Language education
Second Language Acquisition
Second Language Teaching
Pubblicazioni: 

Some recent publications

  • Samu, B. (in press), Cultural conceptualizations in compliment responses of English-speaking learners of Italian, in J. Baranyine Koczy, D. Prodanovic Stankic & P. Panic Kavgic (eds.), Cultural Linguistics and the Social Word, Singapore, Springer, Cultural Linguistic series.
  • Samu, B., Della Putta, P. & Fiorista, A. (in press), Learning the perfective/imperfective aspectual alternation in L2 Italian through a Cognitive Grammar-inspired pedagogy: a quasi-experimental study, in Härtl H. & Zaychenko K. (eds.), Trends in Applied Linguistics, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Samu, B. (2023), Gli effetti della L2 sulla L1: uno studio sulle risposte al complimento di italiani emigrati in Cina, in “Italiano LinguaDue” 15(1), pp. 310-325.

 

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Insegnamenti: 

2023-2024

2022-2023