Lecturer

Email: susanna.nocchi@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205501

Susanna Nocchi is a Lecturer in Italian and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). She is Lead Tutor for Italian at TU Dublin.

Susanna has a First Honours Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Pisa (Italy), an MPhil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Dublin City University (Ireland). Her doctoral thesis “The affordances of virtual worlds for language learning” can be downloaded at the following link: http://doras.dcu.ie/21620/

Susanna Nocchi is a member at large of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA https://aila.info/) and Executive Committee Member of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL https://www.iraal.ie/ ), of which she has been President from 2018 to 2021.

Susanna is also actively involved in the promotion and safeguard of multilingualism in Ireland. In this role, she is one of the funding members and past secretary (2011-2018) of the One Voice for Languages Network (OVFL http://www.onevoiceforlanguages.com/ ) an umbrella group promoting the importance and benefits of language learning for Ireland.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS/EDITOR

Co-ambassador for the iLRN House of Language, Culture and Heritage (https://immersivelrn.org/)

Programme Committee member of the EuroCALL annual conferences

Programme Committee member of the ECEL conferences (European Conference on E-Learning)

Section editor of the Journal of Virtual Studies (https://jovs.urockcliffe.press/)

Scientific committee member of the IRAAL annual conferences

TEACHER TRAINING

Susanna Nocchi has been involved in training teachers of foreign languages since 2004. She has designed and held courses and workshops for Italian Institutes of Culture in different countries (Ireland, Croatia, India, Japan), for the Goethe Institute in Dublin, and for EuroCALL. Susanna Nocchi has also published teaching material for students of Italian as a foreign language (see some of her publications at https://www.almaedizioni.it/it/)

RESEARCH AREA

Susanna Nocchi’s research interest is in the area of Applied Linguistics, specifically in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), where she researches in immersive environments for language teaching and learning, and audio visual translation. She has also conducted research in language policy.

FUNDED PROJECTS

Co-ordinator of the #LanguagesPathways project (https://languagespathways.ie/) funded by the Irish Post-Primary Languages Initiative (PPLI). The project has received its second funding in 2022.

DigiLanguages project (http://www.digilanguages.ie) funded by the Irish National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2020 Erdoza, I., Nocchi, S. & Ruane, M. “Language policy-making in Ireland: A preliminary study of the consultation process of Languages Connect”, TEANGA (27), 98-127.

2020 Benini, S., Bertoni, S., McLoughlin, L. & Nocchi, S. “L’italiano in Irlanda, esperienze sul campo”. Italiano a stranieri, 27, pp. 3-7. https://www.edilingua.it/it-it/Flip.aspx?ElementID=57861259-e3c3-4f36-9e4d-d631e7aec37a

2020 McLoughlin, L. & Nocchi, S. “Analysing solved and unresolved issues of an AVT collaborative task through the lens of activity theory. Implications for task design”. In Bogucki, Ł. & M. Deckert (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Palgrave.

More detailed information available on Susanna Nocchi’s ORCID page https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1389-8035