ITACA
Coherence in academic Italian
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- Italiano
- Project duration: -
- Project status: ongoing
- Website: https://itaca.eurac.edu/
- Institute: Institute for Applied Linguistics
The hypothesis behind the ITACA project -
Coherence in academic Italian - is that the academic writing of upper
secondary school students is diversified and incomplete and that their
written productions reflect motivational, sociolinguistic and
behavioural factors. The project’s objectives are:
1) analysing texts
written by a significant sample of about 500 native Italian speakers
(L1) in upper secondary schools, with regard to textual coherence and
discourse relations of an argumentative type.
2) examining the
correlations between the textual skills of the sample and their
motivation, sociolinguistic background and behaviour.
To this end, we
will collect about a thousand texts (2 per student, a synthesis and an
argumentative text) written in Italian by fourth-year students of all
the high schools in the Province of Bolzano. The students will also take
a language competency test in Italian and a questionnaire on specific
factors related to writing and reading. Eurac Research’s working group,
with a team of specially trained staff, will evaluate the quality and
degree of coherence of the texts and annotate discursive relations.
Annotation will happen both manually and automatically, with the help of
NLP (Natural Language Processing) methods and their recent applications
for Italian. Appropriate control measures will ensure that the tools
can be used reliably for data collection, analysis and evaluation.
The main expected results are:
1) A final report.
2)
Recommendations for the valorisation and promotion of writing that will
support representatives of school policy, teachers, students and
parents in implementing initiatives and strategies to foster the
acquisition of good text writing skills.
3) A learner corpus,
annotated with information on discourse relations and described by
metadata, which shall be available for (free) consultation and download
on Eurac Research’s website.
At international level, ITACA is a
contribution to the few empirical studies on academic writing in L1 with
a focus on textual coherence and in a language other than English.
At
national level, the elements of innovation are to be found in the focus
on coherence, in the combination of different approaches (textual
linguistics, sociolinguistics and NLP), as well as in the size of the
sample and the use of different tools for data collection and analysis.
The last two are elements that increase the generalizability of the
results.
At local level, ITACA is the first study ever on writing
competency in Italian (L1) and therefore fills a research gap. It
completes research carried out so far on German L1 and Italian L2.
Finally,
the use of semiautomatic methods for the analysis of textual coherence
is the first application on written texts of Italian L1 learners.
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