Licia Masoni
Institution: University of Bologna
Address: Via Borelli 12
Postal Code: 41121
Country: Italy
Licia Masoni is senior researcher and assistant professor in English Language and Translation in the Department of Education of the University of Bologna, where she teaches English and EFL teaching methodologies on the Primary Education Degree, with a focus on oral narrative and children’s literature as a learning resource for EFL/ESL learners. She holds a PhD in Scottish Ethnology from the University of Edinburgh (where she lived for many years and taught on the Scottish Ethnology course of the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies) and is specialized in the study of folk narrative, with a primary focus on fairy tales.
Her current research interests include EFL narrative competence, the role of oral/folk narrative in foreign/second language acquisition, the role of children’s literature (picture books in particular) in the acquisition of EFL, primary EFL teacher training, second language identity, the role of emotions in language learning and teaching, the cultural side of language learning, the issue of ‘teaching the target culture’, the multicultural classroom, translanguaging, and the study of the folk narrative tradition of the British Isles.
Areas of expertise: EFL teaching and learning, Oral and Folk narrative, European Fairy Tales, Uses of children’s literature and folk narrative in EFL learning, FL learning/teaching and emotions, Foreign Language and Culture.
Her current research interests include EFL narrative competence, the role of oral/folk narrative in foreign/second language acquisition, the role of children’s literature (picture books in particular) in the acquisition of EFL, primary EFL teacher training, second language identity, the role of emotions in language learning and teaching, the cultural side of language learning, the issue of ‘teaching the target culture’, the multicultural classroom, translanguaging, and the study of the folk narrative tradition of the British Isles.
Areas of expertise: EFL teaching and learning, Oral and Folk narrative, European Fairy Tales, Uses of children’s literature and folk narrative in EFL learning, FL learning/teaching and emotions, Foreign Language and Culture.