Superstition and Orientalism in The Belly of Naples by Matilde Serao
Francesca Ricciardelli
Naples is explored through Matilde Serao's novel, focusing on its superstitions, social divide, and parallels between cholera and COVID-19 responses.
Articles, papers, translations, and chapters that reflect my growth and evolving voice over time.
Welcome to my treasure trove of academic adventures where you’ll find out about ecofeminism, multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition.
Spontaneous Intercomprehension Strategies in Italian Poetry: An Observation of Three Profiles of Plurilingual Participants
Francesca Ricciardelli, Encarnación Carrasco Perea
This research shows that beginners, with specific linguistic repertoire ad reading habits, can use strategies to comprehend Italian literature, like Dante's Divine Comedy, without prior instruction.
Language Use and Intercomprehension in Telecollaboration among Italian Mentors and heritage Speakers mentees
Diego Cortés Veláquez, Clorinda Donato, Francesca Ricciardelli
This study analyzes how Spanish heritage speakers use Spanish to support Italian learning in telecollaborative mentoring between CSULB and Roma Tre University students.
Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish (Italian and English Edition)
Francesca Ricciardelli
This chapter focuses on reviewing an Italian textbook for Spanish and English speakers. It describes its features and uses
Code-switching between Italian and Neapolitan in Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend (2011) and The Story of the New Name (2012)
Francesca Ricciardelli
An Analysisi on how Ferrante’s use of dialect vs. Standard Italian reflects power, gender, and identity in postwar Italy, especially in the lives of her female characters.
Elegia, un romanzo di Montse Pou
Francesca Ricciardelli
A lyrical meditation on love and loss, Elegia traces the emotional unraveling of a relationship through prose and verses in the original Catalan version.
Working Collaboratively in Second/Foreign Language Learning
Francesca Ricciardelli
This is a review on a volume that explores collaborative learning in SL/FL classrooms, highlighting its benefits, challenges, and pedagogical implications across diverse contexts, age groups, and technology-enhanced environments.
Translating Murder: the case of Leonarda Cianciulli
Francesca Ricciardelli, Homa Mayani
A class project translating the story of a 1930s Italian serial killer—infamous for making soap from her victims—highlighted challenges of varied Italian registers.
Translation and translanguaging pedagogies in Intercomprehension and multilingual teaching. Pédagogies de traduction et de translanguaging dans le contexte de l’intercompréhension et de l’enseignement plurilingue
Cedric Joseph Oliva, Clorinda Donato, Francesca Ricciardelli
This chapter highlights how intercomprehension courses at CSU Long Beach use translation and translanguaging to build multilingual competence across English and Romance languages since 2007.