Valentina Carbonara
Biographic Data
| ID | 6223456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Carbonara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbonara |
| SIGNATURE | CARBONARA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University for Foreigners of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2275-5407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring the benefits of translanguaging pedagogies on secondary-school students’ metalinguistic awareness
While translanguaging pedagogies have gained traction among stakeholders as effective tools for teaching content and language leveraging students’ linguistic repertoire, there is a limited body of quantitative evidence on their impact on students’ cognitive and linguistic development. Moreover, the mechanisms driving these potential benefits are still unclear. This study explores whether secondary-school students who have been exposed to translan…
The effects of multilingual pedagogies on language awareness
The benefits of multilingual pedagogies for multilingual children’s narrative abilities
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children’s narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children’s literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public primary school in Italy: 30 children were exposed to multilingual pedagogies, whereas 33 attended a ‘tr…
Integrating translanguaging pedagogy into Italian primary schools
The present contribution aims at describing the main phases of implementation of a Transformative Action-Research project named ‘L’AltRoparlante’. This project began in school year 2016/2017 and is still being implemented in five Italian multilingual schools. Its main purpose is to acknowledge students’ individual and collective multilingual repertoires through a translanguaging pedagogy. First, we will provide an overview about the current situa…
Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families’ school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview regarding mobility and translanguaging in education, particularly in relation to preschool domain, I d…
Unveiling discourses on interculturality and identity construction in primary schools in Italy
This work aims at describing results drawn from a data corpus collected in a translanguaging-based research project named L’AltRoparlante, carried out since 2016 in four multilingual schools in Northern and Central Italy, in order to promote and support inclusive multilingual education. In this contribution, we will focus on the analysis of a corpus of interviews conducted with the teachers (11) and the students (146) of two schools involved in t…
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Unveiling discourses on interculturality and identity construction in primary schools in Italy
This work aims at describing results drawn from a data corpus collected in a translanguaging-based research project named L’AltRoparlante, carried out since 2016 in four multilingual schools in Northern and Central Italy, in order to promote and support inclusive multilingual education. In this contribution, we will focus on the analysis of a corpus of interviews conducted with the teachers (11) and the students (146) of two schools involved in t…
Integrating translanguaging pedagogy into Italian primary schools
The present contribution aims at describing the main phases of implementation of a Transformative Action-Research project named ‘L’AltRoparlante’. This project began in school year 2016/2017 and is still being implemented in five Italian multilingual schools. Its main purpose is to acknowledge students’ individual and collective multilingual repertoires through a translanguaging pedagogy. First, we will provide an overview about the current situa…
Multilingual education in an Italian public preschool
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families’ school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview regarding mobility and translanguaging in education, particularly in relation to preschool domain, I d…
The effects of multilingual pedagogies on language awareness
The benefits of multilingual pedagogies for multilingual children’s narrative abilities
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children’s narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children’s literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public primary school in Italy: 30 children were exposed to multilingual pedagogies, whereas 33 attended a ‘tr…
Exploring the benefits of translanguaging pedagogies on secondary-school students’ metalinguistic awareness
While translanguaging pedagogies have gained traction among stakeholders as effective tools for teaching content and language leveraging students’ linguistic repertoire, there is a limited body of quantitative evidence on their impact on students’ cognitive and linguistic development. Moreover, the mechanisms driving these potential benefits are still unclear. This study explores whether secondary-school students who have been exposed to translan…
Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Translanguaging (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingualism (3 works) · Political science (3 works)