Dr Enza Tudini

Enza Tudini has a Ph.D. in Italian with a focus on critical analysis of contemporary narrative. Her research and publications record is in the area of her Ph.D but she has more recently been working in the area of applied linguistics with a focus on Computer Mediated Communication. She has directed several projects in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (C.A.L.L.) including a project of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers (AFMLTA) 'Language Resources on the Internet' and a project of the Australian Language & Literacy Council 'Implications of Technology for Language Teaching'. She is currently working on several projects which research and develop online language teaching and learning.

Negotiation and intercultural learning in Italian native speaker chat rooms. Modern Language Journal, Volume 91,iv, 2007, 577-601

Chatlines for beginners:negotiating conversation at a distance. in Holmberg, B., Shelley, M & White, C.. (eds) Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change. Multilingual Matters, 2005.

Virtual immersion: native speaker chats as a bridge to conversational Italian. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Special issue on Using and Learning Italian in Australia, edited by A. Rubino. Series S, no. 18, 2004, 63-80.

Using native speakers in chat. Language Learning and Technology, September 2003, vol 7, no. 3, 141-159; reprinted in Hubbard, P. (2009) Computer Assisted Language Learning: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume III: Computer Mediated Communication in Language Learning, New York/London: Routledge, Chapter 49, pp. 292-316.

Conversational elements of online chatting: Speaking practice for distance language learners? Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication. December 2003, 6, (2), 63-81 (French), 83-99 (English) http://alsic.u-strasbg.fr/Menus/frameder.htm

“Teaching Italian verbal and social interaction: an intercultural perspective” book chapter cooauthored with P.Carroli and A. Pavone in Teaching Invisible Culture: Classroom Practice and Theory. Crozet, C & Lo Bianco eds Language Australia, 2003

“The role of online chatting in the development of competence in oral interaction.” In the proceedings of the Innovations in Italian Workshop Griffith University 2002 http://www.gu.edu.au/centre/italian/

"Focus on form through coded corrective feedback and learner self-correction of writing tasks", in Rassegna italiana di linguistica applicata, n. 2, 2000.

"Connecting Language Students through E-mail" coauthored with A. Rubino, in Babel, vol.3, n.1, 1998.

Italianissimo 1: Activity Book BBC Books/ Rigby Heinemann, London/Melbourne, 1994

Italianissimo 2: Activity Book BBC Books/ Rigby Heinemann, London/Melbourne, 1994

Varianti sconosciute di Il seme sotto la neve di Ignazio Silone: analisi strutturale, Ravenna, Longo, 1992