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L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes
No full textThis thematic issue brings together a selection of papers presented at the international conference L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes held at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari in November 2023. Four articles are dedicated to the topic of phonological acquisition (both in perception and production) related to specific L2/L3 features (prominence in German, linking of contiguous vowels in Spanish, the labiovelar approximant, the alveolar trill and unreduced vowels in Polish). Three papers focus on attitudes, i.e. on the perception and evaluation of L2 Icelandic (with an English, Danish, Tagalog, Lithuanian or Polish accent), of L2 Spanish (produced by Italian university students), and of English as an international language (EIL) in the multicultural context of a secondary school in Tanzania. The final contribution deals with the teaching of L2 English pronunciation to very young Brazilian children. A common thread running through most of the contributions is the goal of intelligibility, rather than nativeness, in L2 pronunciation
Language as a Lens: Italy’s Tourism Promotion for International Visitors from the 1920s to the 1950s: the DIETALY project
No full textThis article presents the DIETALY project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, which explores the intersection between language, translation and tourism promotion, highlighting how tourism is not only an economic sector but also a key player in the formation of cultural identities. Through a diachronic lens, the articles presented in this special issue explore the evolution of Italian tourism communication in English, focusing mainly on the work of ENIT, Italy's national tourism agency, from the early 20th century to the post-war period. The DIETALY project examines the transformation that institutional tourism communication has undergone during this historical period by analysing a range of media, including written texts, images and audiovisual content. Using an interdisciplinary and multimodal methodology, the project examines how visual and verbal elements were combined to convey the image of Italy as a tourist destination abroad, adapting to the challenges posed by the economic crises and the Second World War. It highlights the resilience and adaptability of the tourism sector, which is also expressed in the strategic use of language. An interdisciplinary approach that integrates tourism studies, linguistics and translation studies, and history is essential to understanding tourism promotion in all its facets. This framework promotes deeper insights into how language shapes tourism experiences and offers new research opportunities by examining past practices to better understand today's globalized tourism landscape
Imparare le lingue attraverso il podcast, imparare le lingue creando podcast: modelli didattici
No full textPodcasting: modelli operativi per la didattica. Podcast per l’apprendimento linguistico.Il podcast in classe: podcast insegnante e podcast studente.Podcast e didattica inclusiv
A robust scheme for securing relational data incremental watermarking
Full text linkWatermarking techniques aim to protect relational databases by embedding on them a copyright signal known as the watermark without imposing additional restrictions. However, unlike other digital assets, such as multimedia data, relational data are often subject to frequent updates that may dramatically compromise the quality of the embedded watermark. Hence, it is relevant to implement incremental watermarking for this type of data. Although incremental watermarking is defined in theory as the requirement of generating and inserting a mark whenever data is inserted or updated in a watermarked database (if the new value requires marking), its practical deployment is often ignored in the validation of proposed techniques, possibly due to how its deployment affects other requirements, such as the public system and security. In this work, we present different architectural approaches that, rather than conflicting with security and the public system, are built upon and contribute to them. The experimental results validate their applicability in terms of deployment, portability, scalability, and performance. As an architectural proposal, our work can be applied to different watermarking techniques, regardless of their particularities and the protected databases, making the preservation and enhancement of the watermark possible. Thus, we face the silent threats to security posed by opportunistic malicious operations in the absence of incremental watermarking
Overcoming prejudices and stigmatization towards refugees: A novel approach through deliberative citizen dialogues in Turkey
Full text linkCan changing how refugees and asylum seekers are narrated in public debates help citizens reassess their prejudices? Which narratives would garner support from ordinary citizens and promise to generate an attitude shift? While hate speech and far-right narratives targeting forcibly displaced people, refugees and asylum seekers are reported extensively, little is known about how citizens would respond to alternative narratives that portray them as rights-bearing agents. This study uses an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that brings migration scholarship in dialogue with cognitive fields and social psychology and offers a novel participatory approach to generate data. In eight cities across Turkey, citizens were invited to deliberate three sets of 'de-stigmatizing narratives' based on (1) social solidarity, (2) collective memory of welcoming and settling refugees in the past, and (3) the injustices of exploitation that refugees encounter while earning a living. Participants were steered to discuss each narrative through (a) progressive framing (fairness, egalitarianism, and social cohesion) and (b) conservative-nationalist framing (maintenance of law, order, and identity). The findings reveal that engaging with de-stigmatizing narratives evokes affective empathy, leading to moderate, refugee-supportive attitudes among participants even in a context where anti-refugee attitudes have escalated to communal attacks targeting refugees. However, positive attitudes towards refugees display a local turn, varying by city and often after progressive frames are supported by conservative-nationalist ones. The study highlights the importance of participatory community mobilization and sub-national/local approaches to shift, counter, or replace prevailing narratives to help reduce misinformation and prejudices about refugees
エンタングルメントとしての無常ー古典と人間との絡み合いをめぐって Entangurumento to shite no mujō. Koten to ningen to no karamiai o megutte
No full textThis article apply the concept of human-thing entanglement by Ian Hodder to the concept of "mujo" (impermanence) as it emerges from literary works of premodern Japan, especially in Kamo no Chōmei's "Hojoki"
The role of interpersonal relationships in leadership programs: Development and validation of a peer-coaching scale
No full textResearch recognizes the pivotal role of developmental relationships in effective leadership development and in fostering professional growth. In this regard, peer coaching represents an effective pedagogical tool in leadership development programs, as a form of mutually beneficial relationship between individuals of equal status. Despite the growing interest in leveraging peer coaching, there is a remarkable scarcity of theoretical and empirical research on the adoption of this technique and the measurement of its effects. This study addresses this gap by developing an original 13-item peer coaching measurement scale that encompasses two dimensions: Peer Coaching Meaning Making, and Peer Coaching Supportive Relationship. The paper examines the validity and reliability of this peer coaching scale across different cohorts of master's degree students who attended a leadership course at a public Italian University. Results from the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirm adequate psychometric properties in terms of criterion-related validity and reliability. Additionally, the results offer insights on the learning outcomes attained in three areas: students' peer coaching self-efficacy, their self-awareness, and their engagement in the leadership development program. This paper provides insights for educators and human resource development practitioners to effectively measure the impact of this collaborative relationship within a leadership learning journey
Contextual Correlation Inference in Multi-fleet Robotic Systems
No full textThe dependency of the Non-functional requirements (NFR) on the operating environment can lead to unexpected behaviors. This may subsequently result in threats to robotic systems after being deployed in an uncontrolled environment. This work proposes a simulation-based approach to identify the NFR correlations in environmental contexts formulti-robot systems. The simulation results are useful to infer and evaluate the different conflicts between NFRs and to study the impact of different contexts on the requirements themselves. The identified correlations would be useful for the system designers in minimizing impact and preventing problems arising from commonly overlooked issues. The adopted methodology is easily reproducible in different development scenarios
Communicating Italy to British and American tourists between the wars: tourist representations of Italy and adaptation to the specificity of the target audience
No full textThe study of tourism discourse in the first decades of the twentieth century is important for its central role in the formation of individual and collective identities. This period witnessed a remarkable transition in which tourist discourse functioned not only as a means of communication, but also as a stage for the expression of different identities. Such articulation within the discourse laid the groundwork for the development of contemporary tourism practices. However, a crucial area that needs to be explored is the role of tourism promotion, particularly in relation to institutional tourism communication in foreign languages during the inter-war period. It is worth investigating the extent to which promoters in the early 1920s understood the objectives and methods required to shape the image of a destination. This study examines the strategies used to promote Italy to English-speaking tourists during the early stages of institutional tourism promotion, marked by the creation of ENIT in 1919. In particular, it analyses the evolution of approaches aimed at increasing the effectiveness of tourism promotion and targeting
Sustainability reporting assurance.
No full textThis chapter addresses the assurance service for corporate sustainability information. First, the main reasons and benefits of sustainability assurance are discussed, as well as some key concepts such as the difference between mandatory and voluntary assurance, the levels of assurance, the ethical and professional requisites of the experts providing this service, the applicable standards, the subject matter and the preconditions of an assurance service engagement. An analysis of the crucial engagement planning and performing phases follows, with a particular focus on staffing the engagement, determining materiality, and obtaining evidence. The typologies, contents and goals of assurance documentation are also described, as well as the contents of the assurance report and possible conclusions. The chapter ends with some remarks on the criticalities characterising the assurance service of sustainability reports