Innovation in Language Learning
Bianca Sisinni
Institution: University of Salento, Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio (CRIL)
Country: Italy
Bianca Sisinni is researcher in Linguistics at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. She works at Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio/ Center of Interdisciplinary Research on Language (CRIL), in Lecce, Italy.
In 2014, she won the competition announcement FutureInResearch (Regione Puglia FSC 2007/2013 – Intervento FutureInResearch) with the project “Dal cervello alla parola: correlati neurocognitivi e articolatori nell'acquisizione di fonemi della lingua straniera”.
Her main interests are Second Language Acquisition from the phonetic-phonological point of view.
She graduated in 2005 in Foreign Language and Literatures with the highest honors and four years later, she earned her Ph.D. in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Salento. During her Ph.D course at the CRIL, she started to study the acquisition of second language sounds by using both behavioral and Event Related Potentials (ERPs) methods. She continued her research as temporary research assistant from 2009 to 2014.
She participated in many national and international conferences and published on international journals.
She is author of the book “Fonetica e Fonologia della Seconda Lingua. Teorie, metodi e prospettive per la didattica” (Carocci, Roma, in press) and co-author of the book “Osservazione di Classe, insegnamento linguistico e (tele)collaborazione” (Franco Cesati Editore, Firenze, 2015).
In 2013, she took the qualification (Tirocinio Formativo Attivo –TFA) for teaching English in “scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado”.
Areas of expertise: second language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, language learning, neurocognitive science.
In 2014, she won the competition announcement FutureInResearch (Regione Puglia FSC 2007/2013 – Intervento FutureInResearch) with the project “Dal cervello alla parola: correlati neurocognitivi e articolatori nell'acquisizione di fonemi della lingua straniera”.
Her main interests are Second Language Acquisition from the phonetic-phonological point of view.
She graduated in 2005 in Foreign Language and Literatures with the highest honors and four years later, she earned her Ph.D. in Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Salento. During her Ph.D course at the CRIL, she started to study the acquisition of second language sounds by using both behavioral and Event Related Potentials (ERPs) methods. She continued her research as temporary research assistant from 2009 to 2014.
She participated in many national and international conferences and published on international journals.
She is author of the book “Fonetica e Fonologia della Seconda Lingua. Teorie, metodi e prospettive per la didattica” (Carocci, Roma, in press) and co-author of the book “Osservazione di Classe, insegnamento linguistico e (tele)collaborazione” (Franco Cesati Editore, Firenze, 2015).
In 2013, she took the qualification (Tirocinio Formativo Attivo –TFA) for teaching English in “scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado”.
Areas of expertise: second language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, language learning, neurocognitive science.
