English as a Lingua Franca
in Domain-specific Contexts
of Intercultural Communication
Lecce, 4-6 December 2019
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
4 december
9:00 - 9:30 - Registration
9:30 – 10:00 - (Aula Magna)
Opening Address: Fabio Pollice
(The Magnificent Rector, University of Salento)
Greeting Address: Giovanni Tateo
(Director of the Department of Humanities)
Welcome addresses:
Maria Grazia Guido (PRIN Principal Investigator, University of Salento)
Lucilla Lopriore (PRIN Associated Investigator, University of Roma Tre)
Roberta Facchinetti (PRIN Associated InvestigatorUniversity of Verona)
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote Lecture (Aula Magna)
Henry G. Widdowson
(Universities of Vienna and London)
The Elusive concept of culture
Chair: Maria Grazia Guido
11:00 – 12:30
Paper session 1 (Aula Magna)
Chair: Enrico Grazzi
11:00 – 11:20 – Maria Grazia Guido (University of Salento)
ELF in migrants’ and refugees’ trauma narratives
11:30 – 11:50 – Thomas W. Christiansen (University of Salento)
Non-adjacent pairs in question/answer moves in ELF spoken discourse in cross-cultural migration domains
12:00 – 12:30 – Paola Catenaccio (University of Milan)
“Do you understand?” Accommodating language and identities in ELF narratives of migration. A case study
12:30 – 14:30
Lunch (Aula E7)
14:30 – 16:00
Paper session 2 (Aula Ferrari)
Chair: Maria Grazia Guido
14:30 – 14:50 – Mariarosaria Provenzano and Chiara Capone (University of Salento)
A Critical Discourse Analysis on cases of ELF reformulation of European and Italian legal texts on Migration
15:00 – 15:20 – Alessandra Rizzo (University of Palermo)
Subtitling in ELF: when accessibility turns into counter information
15:30 – 15:50 – Pietro Luigi Iaia and Lucia Errico (University of Salento)
The experiential nature of ELF reformulations in the multimodal representation of modern and ancient sea-odysseys
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break (Aula E7)
16:30 – 17:30
Paper session 3 (Aula Ferrari)
Chair: Thomas W. Christiansen
16:30 – 16:50 – Donatella Chiaruttini (University of Salento)
Enhancing ELF communicative competence in ELT classrooms in Italy: An investigation of cognitive-experiential practices
17:00 – 17:20 – Antonio Mileti and Cristian Rizzo (University of Salento)
The impact of English as a Lingua Franca on emotions: An experimental study through FaceReader
5 december
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote Lecture (Aula Ferrari)
Barbara Seidlhofer
(University of Vienna)
Communication and community: an ELF perspective on critical contexts
Chair: Roberta Facchinetti
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break (Aula E7)
11:30 – 13:00
Paper session 1 (Aula Ferrari)
Chair: Roberta Facchinetti
11:30 – 11:50 – Franca Poppi (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia)
"What should I reply, now?" An analysis of different types of emails and the prevailing communicative strategies
12:00 – 12:20 – Paola Caleffi (University of Verona)
Communication strategies in BELF e-mailing: 'Only' a matter of shared understanding?
12:30 – 12:50 – Paola Vettorel and Valeria Franceschi (University of Verona)
Communication strategies in BELF: from users’ perceptions, corpus and textbook analysis to pedagogical implications
13:00 – 15:00
Lunch (Aula E7)
15:00 – 17:00
Paper session 2 (Aula Ferrari)
Chair: Lucilla Lopriore
15:00 – 15:20 – Lucilla Lopriore (University of Roma Tre)
ELF awareness in ELT: findings from a research study on EL teachers’ attitudes and identities
15:30 – 15:50 – Enrico Grazzi (University of Roma Tre)
Teachers’ attitudes: learners’ errors and standard norms
16:00 – 16:20 – Marina Morbiducci (University “Sapienza” of Rome) and Alessandra Cannelli (University of Roma Tre)
Exploring ELT practices, teachers’ professional profile and beliefs
16:30 – 16:50 – David Newbold (University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice) and Silvia Sperti (University of Roma Tre)
Shifting scenarios of ELF and EMI in Italian universities: what role for the language assistants (CEL)?
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break (Aula E7)
17:30 – 18:30
Afternoon Off
20:00
Social Dinner
6 december
10:00 – 11:00
Keynote Lecture (Aula Ferrari)
Martin Dewey
(King’s College London)
Language awareness in teacher education: a critical imperative
Chair: Lucilla Lopriore
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break (Aula E7)
11:30 – 13:00
Paper session 1 (Aula Ferrari)
Chair: Marina Morbiducci
11:30 – 11:50 – Hugo Bowles (University of Foggia)
Literary lingua franca
12:00 – 12:20 – Maria Teresa Giampaolo and Adele Errico (University of Salento)
“Six characters in search of an author”: prompting migrants’ experiential processes of accessing and authenticating the host community’s literary culture through ELF
12:30 – 12:50 – Annarita Taronna (University of Bari) and Lorena Carbonara (University of Calabria)
English as a Lingua Franca in the migration context: three perspectives from the south
Concluding remarks
Maria Grazia Guido (University of Salento)
Lucilla Lopriore (University of Roma Tre)
Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona)
