Keywords:
Educational linguistics
Plurilingualism, intercomprehension, plural approaches
Language testing, assessment, evaluation
Communication in institutional and academic settings
Spoken corpus and discourse analysis
AI and interaction in second language learning
i) Study of non-traditional models of language learning and teaching: didactics for autonomous language learning; peculiarities and criticalities inherent to the contexts of self-access, self-learning, e-learning, in particular in relation to motivational factors and to the concepts of transactional distance and autonomy; artificial intelligence and language learning.
ii) Assessment and evaluation of linguistic-communicative competences with a specific focus on some issues of diagnostic-formative assessment: design of assessment tasks, validation processes including psychometric ones, study of feedback with reference to self-correcting items. Research topics on assessment are also tackled with reference to the specificities of vulnerable or disadvantaged candidates.
iii) Educational Linguistics and plurilingualism: study of interactional competences in plurilingual oral interaction contexts, with special focus on teaching and communication contexts in intercomprehension, for the development of linguistic and academic competences, such as soft-skills.
iv) Institutional communication, administrative and specialised languages, with special reference to issues of comprehensibility, simplification and readability of texts and speeches.
