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Alfonsina BUONICONTO Curriculum

Alfonsina Buoniconto is a researcher in Language Teaching. Her research interests encompass linguistic education, textual linguistics and text teaching, lexical semantics and lexical pragmatics, variation/change interface.

She graduated from the University of Salerno in Modern Languages and Literatures, focusing her thesis on the linguistic representation of motion events in Italian and English narratives. In 2019, she earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the same university with a dissertation titled "Going through the motions: Motion events encoding and analysis parameters. A test study on the Romance family," under the supervision of Claudio Iacobini.

Between 2017 and 2018, she was a visiting researcher at the LaTTiCe laboratory in Paris, a facility under the joint supervision of CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, and Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. During this time, she worked on aspects related to cognitive semantics, diachrony of Romance languages, and data annotation.

In 2019, she collaborated to the linguistic revision and annotation of the diachronic morphology corpus MIDIA at the Department of Humanities the University of Roma Tre. From 2015 to 2020, she contributed to the development of Modeg (MOtion DEcoding Grid), an annotation program that allows the coding of the most relevant formal and semantic elements involved in the linguistic expression of motion events (https://modeg.audero.it/).

From 2019 to 2021, she served as a tutor for Italian and foreign language teachers participating in the "Alphamente" project, funded by the 2014-2020 ESF and aimed at enhancing basic skills in upper secondary schools. Within the same project, she worked on the development of the LeCo platform (https://leco.studiumdipsum.it/), dedicated to reading and comprehension skills for various types of texts, primarily focusing on functional texts. For the same project, she designed and experimented with an educational curriculum aimed at enhancing the skills identified by the OCSE-PISA descriptors for the comprehension of written functional texts.

From 2020 to 2022, she was a research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno. Her project focused on investigating main problems of secondary school students when facing text comprehension. This project was conducted under the guidance of Miriam Voghera.

She has taught several support courses in Glottology and General Linguistics at the Department of Humanisties at the University of Salerno. She has taught English, Spanish, and Italian L2 in Italy and in the United Kingdom during her study semester at the University of Warwick. In 2022, she obtained teaching qualification for Italian secondary schools, emerging as the winner of the ministerial competition as per D.D. 499/2020.

Currently, she is a member of the P.A.R.O.L.E. Laboratory for the analysis of European languages (https://www.dipsum.unisa.it/dipartimento/strutture?id=75) at the University of Salerno. She also participates in the following working groups:

  • LICOR (Linguistics of Corpora): Collection of structured corpora of written, spoken, and multimodal language in various European languages, both synchronically and diachronically.
  • TRAMA (TRAiettoria MAniera): Research and data collection for the study of the linguistic expression of motion events in a comparative and typological perspective.
  • STUDIUM – Digital Humanities: Design of an online platform for the enhancement and recovery of skills and knowledge concerning the disciplines of the degree courses at the Department of Humanistic Studies.

She is the author of various publications and presentations.