Senior researcher
(EURAC researcher since 2001)
EDUCATION
December 2004 PhD in German Linguistics - Universities of Modena/Reggio Emilia (ITA) and Graz (AU)
PhD thesis: The German skills of Italian-speaking pupils of Bolzano and Trento. Evaluation and Comparison.
2003 Qualification to teach written Italian in university classes
2000 Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures - University of Trento
First Language: English
Second Language: German
ACADEMIC/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
AY 2002/03 - 2008/09 Teaching Assistant - University of Trento, Faculty of Letters
General Linguistics
History of the Italian Language (AY 2002/03)
PROJECTS
COOPERATIONS
Until May 2005: member of the research group for the elaboration of a language Portfolio for high school & university students (Richtlinien zur Erstellung eines kontinuierlichen Lehrplans als Brücke zwischen Schule und Universität) - University of Trento
PUBLICATIONS
together with Mich, O. (2009): An Internet-based tool for knocking down deaf children barrier to learning. Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2009). Madrid (E), 17-19.11.2009.
together with Felice, M. (2008): e-LIS: Electronic Bilingual Dictionary Italian Sign Language-Italian. In: Proceedings of the XIII EURALEX International Congress. (Barcelona, 15-19 July 2008).
together with Felice, M. (2008): e-LIS: Dizionario elettronico di base bilingue LIS-italiano. In: Atti del convegno Dizionari per alunni sordi. Roma: Istituto Statale dei Sordi (23 ottobre 2007).
(2007): La competenza del tedesco negli studenti di madrelingua italiana a Bolzano e a Trento. In: Comunicare Lingue Letterature, 7/2007. Il Mulino.
together with Knapp, Judith, Streiter, Oliver, Voltmer, Leonhard, Zielinski, Daniel and Streiter, Oliver: Image Assisted L2 Acquisition with Internet. In: Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística y Literatura (2005). Institute of Literature and the Language Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile).
together with Streiter, O., Voltmer, L., Knapp, J., Zielinski, D.: Image Assisted L2 Acquisition with Internet. Who's Afraid of the Animated Grey Wolf? In: Kinshuk, Sampson Demetrios G. and Isaías, Pedro (2004): Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference CELDA 2004. Lisbon: IADIS Press.
Le illustrazioni nei dizionari pedagogici. Gli esempi del Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache e del Wörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache de Gruyter. In: Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 2-3/2004.
La competenza del tedesco degli studenti italiani di scuola media inferiore e superiore di Trento e Bolzano. In: Atti del convegno internazionale Qualità nell'Apprendimento delle Lingue Straniere. Rovereto: 22-23 gennaio 2004. Trento: IPRASE del Trentino.
together with O. Streiter and J. Knapp: From Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to Sign Language Processing: the Design of e-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian. In: Streiter, O. & Vettori, C. (2004): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information Techniques and their Implications for Teaching, Documentation and Communication. Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
Vettori, C. (2006): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios. Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
Streiter, O. & Vettori, C. (2004): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information Techniques and their Implications for Teaching, Documentation and Communication. Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
- Articles in ACADEMIA (Review of the European Academy of Bolzano)
Segni variabili. In: Academia, 46. Bolzano: Eurac. Segni sul Web. In: Academia, 37. Eurac: Bolzano. 8-9.
Io, che parlo la lingua dei figli di un dio minore. Intervista a Nadia Carraro, interprete della lingua dei segni in Provincia di Bolzano. In: Academia, 31. Eurac: Bolzano. 10-11.
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS and more
15th April 2010: Aperitivo Neuroscientifico (together with Eduardo Navarrete). Multilinguismo: un fenomeno in crescita. Conseguenze cognitive e sociali dell’essere poliglotta. Rovereto
2nd July 2009: EURAC Science Café 2009 "X Factor o Starmania? Quando l'integrazione (non) passa per la tv".
28th November 2008: conference-exhibition Handimatica 2008. Bologna [presentation of e-LIS: Dizionario elettronico di base bilingue LIS-italiano]
20th November 2008: conference Messen in der Linguistik, 5. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik. Winterthur (CH) [paper presentation: Erhebung von L2-Kompetenzen bei OberschülerInnen in Südtirol: Fähigkeit zur kommunikativen Teilhabe an einer mehrsprachigen gesellschaftlichen Realität?]
16th July 2008: conference EURALEX International Congress (XIII ed.) Barcelona [paper presentation: e-LIS: Electronic Bilingual Dictionary Italian Sign Language-Italian]
15th February 2008: conference Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien. Università La Sapienza, Roma[organisation of the workshop Erhebung und Bewertung von Sprachkenntnissen and presentation of the paper Die Kombination von Instrumenten im Hinblick auf eine möglichst aussagekräftige Erhebung und Bewertung von schriftsprachlichen kommunikativen und bildungsrelevanten L2-Kompetenzen (together with A. Abel)]
18th December 2007: participation at the ceremony for the twentieth anniversary of the European Social Fund with e-LIS as example of best practice.
23rd October 2007 (Rome): conference Dizionari per alunni sordi.Istituto Statale dei Sordi [invited speaker together with Mauro Felice: e-LIS: Dizionario elettronico di base bilingue LIS-italiano]
29-30th June 2007 (Bern): colloquium Deutsch als Zweitsprache in Dialektumgebung. Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities [together with Andrea Abel: Die Südtiroler SchülerInnen und die Zweitsprache: eine linguistische und sozialpsychologische Untersuchung]
14th January 2007 (Rovereto): Workshop on Sign Language Research. CIMEC, University of Trento [invited speaker together with Rosella Gennari: e-LIS and LODE: web tools for Deaf people]
28th May 2006 (Genoa): Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006). Post-conference Second Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. Lexicographic matters and didactic scenarios. [organiser]
22nd February 2006 (Bolzano): Public presentation of the results of the PhD research
30th May 2004 (Lisbon): Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004). Post-conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. [organising and scientific committee]
22-23rd January 2004 (Rovereto): international conference Qualità nell'Apprendimento delle Lingue Straniere. IPRASE del Trentino [invited speaker: La competenza del tedesco degli studenti italiani di scuola media inferiore e superiore di Trento e Bolzano].
COMPLEMENTARY COURSES
Introduction to social research (EURAC) - December '08
Introduction to statistics (EURAC) - October '08
Focus group: theory and practice (EURAC) - February '07
Statistical Methods in Corpus Linguistics (EURAC) - September '05
Corpus Linguistics: an Introduction (EURAC) - July '05
Web Content Management (EURAC/Simurg MI) - March '04
Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (EURAC/Centro Docimologico Verona) - March '03
Scientific Journalism (EURAC/SISSA Trieste) - April '02
An Introduction to Markup Languages (EURAC) - March '02