Sofia Di Sarno-García

Sofia Di Sarno-GarcíaDr Sofia Di Sarno-García holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) as a member of the CAMILLE research group. Her main research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, intercultural communicative competence, and telecollaboration. Her research has appeared in refereed international books: e.g., Intercultural Communication and Ubiquitous Learning in Multimodal English Language Education (García-Sánchez & Clouet, 2022, IGI Global) and she is the main editor of the volume Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms (2023, IGI Global) and co-editor of the volume Discussing Global Citizenship through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) - Virtual Exchange (VE) in Language Learning and Teaching (2023, Coventry University). She is also about to publish a monograph entitled Acquiring pragmatic and intercultural communicative competences in the digital era: a telecollaboration study (Bloomsbury Academic). Besides, Sofia is currently Assistant Editor of the journal The Eurocall Review and a member of the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics (ITAP). She has also taught English as a foreign language at the Universitat Politècnica de València to engineering students and at the Universitat de València to pre-service teachers, both in Spain. She completed a research Erasmus placement at Coventry University (UK) in 2022 at the Centre for Global Learning.

Publications

Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms
Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms
Sofia Di Sarno-García, Salvador Montaner-Villalba, Ana Mª Gimeno-Sanz. © 2023. 374 pages.
In today’s globalized world, telecollaboration offers a valuable tool to foster language learners’ intercultural communicative competence, which is strongly related to pragmatic...
L1 Transfer in Performing Apologies: Insights From Three Telecollaboration Projects
L1 Transfer in Performing Apologies: Insights From Three Telecollaboration Projects
Sofia Di Sarno-García. © 2023. 23 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the strategies used to apologize by Spanish-speaking students who engaged in a telecollaboration project with their English-speaking...
Analyzing L2 Learners' Engagement Strategies to Assess Intercultural Communicative Competence in a Telecollaborative Exchange Project
Analyzing L2 Learners' Engagement Strategies to Assess Intercultural Communicative Competence in a Telecollaborative Exchange Project
Sofia Di Sarno-García, Ana Gimeno-Sanz. © 2022. 24 pages.
Following the discourse-semantic subsystem of engagement within the appraisal framework, this chapter investigates the extent to which participants of a telecollaborative...