Starting from a set of different approaches to academic discourse as a field of research, the Centre aims to collect and analyse different kinds of data that can be gathered in studying academic writing.
Textual and contextual elements are taken into consideration, together with their contribution to the objectives that characterize different approaches to academic discourse studies and academic literacy studies. Special attention is paid to corpus-based approaches and corpus building.
Research will develop alongside teaching activities and aims to:
“Academic Writing in English for PhD students” 20-hour intensive course
Tutor: Dr. Niall Curry (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
2 - 5 October 2023 Bolzano Campus
“Academic Writing in English for PhD students” 20-hour intensive course
Tutor: Dr. Niall Curry (Coventry University, UK)
10 – 13 October 2022 Bolzano Campus
Identity in a multilingual educational context: does L1 affect attitudes towards other languages at a trilingual university? – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME) 2023, University of Malta. – 12 October 2023
Creating a new Centre for Academic Writing: how much digitalisation? – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. – 6 June 2023
English in a bilingual German-Italian community: Collecting data and investigating learner variables in creating the EdiCoMC corpus – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference. University of Padova, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies. – 23 September 2022
Transcultural norms? EAP at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti. EAP Conference 2023: Towards transcultural pedagogy: dynamics in global EAP. University of St Andrews, Scotland. – 4 March 2023
Creating the Centre for Academic Writing at the Trilingual Free University of Bolzano: contexts and first steps – Graham Burton, Maria Cristina Gatti, Cecilia Lazzeretti. AIA 30 Conference ‘Experiment and Innovation: Branching Forwards and Backwards. University of Catania, Department of Humanities – 15 September 2022