Rita Calabrese

Rita Calabrese is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. She has published on the use of information technologies and corpora for pedagogical purposes, and is co-editor of Theoretical and Practical Issues in Designing a Blended e-learning Course of English as a Foreign Language. She has contributed to edited volumes such as Fostering Self-Regulated Learning through ICT (with Giuliana Dettori and Donatella Persico 2011) and Variation and Change in Postcolonial Contexts (with Jack Chambers and Gerhard Leitner 2015). She is currently working on a diachronic corpus of Indian English (1835-2011), as shown by her article “Standardizing variation in a multilingual context: Insights into the past and present state of Indian English” in Regenerating Community, Territory, Voices. Memory and vision (2012).

Publications

Investigating Diachronic Variation and Change in New Varieties of English
Investigating Diachronic Variation and Change in New Varieties of English
Rita Calabrese. © 2019. 13 pages.
This contribution focuses on processes of language feature convergence which gradually lead to linguistic stabilization over time, whereby specific attention will be given to the...
Investigating Diachronic Variation and Change in New Varieties of English
Investigating Diachronic Variation and Change in New Varieties of English
Rita Calabrese. © 2018. 11 pages.
This contribution focuses on processes of language feature convergence which gradually lead to linguistic stabilization over time whereby specific attention will be given to the...
Theoretical and Practical Issues in Designing a Blended e-Learning Course of English as a Foreign Language
Theoretical and Practical Issues in Designing a Blended e-Learning Course of English as a Foreign Language
Rita Calabrese, Filomena Faiella. © 2011. 17 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to provide an outline of the main theoretical issues in the field of Self-Regulated Learning which have inspired the design and implementation of a...