Università per Stranieri di Perugia - Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali
Contact person: Stefania Spina
stefania.spina [at] unistrapg.it
is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy). She works in the areas of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and applied linguistics. Her main research interests are pos-tagging of Italian, language of media, language variation in computer-mediated communication and acquisition of Italian as a second language. She has created the Perugia corpus, a reference corpus of written and spoken Italian.
Description of the smart city learning group operating in the affiliated institution
to be published soon
Competences
• ICT supported learning and distance learning, especially in the field of distance language learning;
• use of social media in informal language learning;
• teacher training in the use of ICT and web-based learning;
• teaching Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology, and integrating GIS with User Generated Content (UGC) of Social media
Relevant achievements, best practices, products
The following results were obtained following the APRIL project (Ambiente Personalizzato di Rete per l'Insegnamento Linguistico), 2010-2012:
• Online courses of Italian Language and Culture
• Online Courses for the training of Online Tutors
• Tweetaliano, the biggest community of Italian speakers and learners on Twitter
• L2O, a social network for teachers of Italian to share teaching materials
On going challenges
no on-going challenge at present
Relevant publications
• Spina S.
Special issue on Resources and Tools for Language Learners.
Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, vol. 48/1, 2014
• Spina S., A. Gobbi
Smart Cities and Languages: The Language Network, in “Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal”
IxD&A, N. 16, 2013, pp. 37-46, 2013
• Spina S., E. Bassetti
APRIL: An online learning environment devoted to language learning.
In 'PROCEDIA: SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES', vol. 34, 2012, p. 216-218
ISSN: 1877-0428
• Spina S., F. Scolastra
Elledueò: Integrating 'formal' and 'social' in a language learning environment of Italian as a Second Language.
In 'JE-LKS. JOURNAL OF E-LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY', vol. 6, 2010, p. 77-84
ISSN: 1826-6223
• Nardi F., Biscarini C., Di Francesco S., Manciola P. Ubertini L.,
Comparing a large scale DEM- based floodplain delineation algorithm with standard flood maps: the Tiber river basin case study
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage, Volume 62, Issue S2, Pages 11-19, 2013
DOI 10.1002/ird.1819
• Grimaldi S, Petroselli A., Arcangeletti E., Nardi F.
Flood mapping in ungauged basins using fully continuous hydrologic-hydraulic modelling.
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 487, p. 39-47, 2013
ISSN: 0022-1694
• Biscarini C, Testa M
Three-Dimensional numerical modelling of the Marmore waterfalls.
Progress In Computational Fluid Dynamics, vol. 11, p. 105-115, ISSN: 1468-4349, 2011
doi: 10.1504/PCFD.2011.038836
• Manciola P, Di Francesco S, Biscarini C
Flood Protection and Risk Management: the case of Tescio River Basin.
IAHS PUBLICATION, vol. 327, p. 174-183, 2009