Janice M Aski
Biographic Data
| ID | 689587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice M Aski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice M |
| FAMILY NAME | Aski |
| SIGNATURE | ASKI J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2353-5967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom
This article describes a research study of a three‐semester elementary Italian language curriculum at a large Midwestern research university that incorporates intercultural competence (IC) training through cognitive dissonance image analyses, conversations with native speakers, classroom discussion, and reflections to determine the impact of this curriculum on learners’ development of IC. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered over three…
New Messaging and Intercultural Competence Training in Response to Falling Enrollments in World Languages
The trend in declining enrollments in world language courses demands investigation into likely causes and thoughtful solutions to resolve the crisis. We explore common negative attitudes form the general public toward world language study, and conclude that frustration stems from speaking proficiency as the perceived sole measure of success – a skill that takes time to achieve and may be lost without consistent practice. We propose new messaging …
The pragmatic functionality of atonic double-object clitic clusters in fourteenth-century Florentine
Throughout the thirteenth century in the dialect of Florence the order of clitic pronouns in double-object clusters in which the dat ( ive ) was first- or secondperson singular or plural was acc ( usative )– dat . During the fourteenth century variation in the order arose so that both the acc – dat and the dat – acc order were possible. By the fifteenth century, however, the variation was resolved in favor of dat – acc , the pattern found today i…
Italian clitics
Alternatives to Mechanical Drills for the Early Stages of Language Practice in Foreign Language Textbooks
There is a growing body of research indicating that mechanical drills do not facilitate the development of explicit or implicit knowledge. This study identifies the inadequate aspects of mechanical drills and offers alternative activities for the early stages of language practice, whose formats and features comply with recent research in the learning and acquisition of foreign languages. Wong and VanPatten's (2003) referential structured input ac…
A Usage-Based Analysis of Multiple Outcomes
Article A USAGE-BASED ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE OUTCOMES: THE COGNITIVE, PHONETIC, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SOUND CHANCE was published on January 1, 2004 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 38, issue Historica-vol-25-1-2)
Prego! An Invitation to Italian
Preface Capitolo preliminare-Buon giorno, Italia! Perche l'italiano? A. Saluti e espressioni di cortesia Curiosita: Ciao B. In classe C. Alfabeto e suoni D. Numeri da uno a cento E. Calendario Piccolo ripasso Videoteca: Amici di famiglia Parole da ricordare Presentiamo l'Italia Capitolo 1-Una italiana Vocabolario preliminare: Una italiana Angolo musicale: Tutta la mia citta Grammatica A. Nomi: genere e numero Curiosita: Piazze e fontane d'Italia …
Foreign Language Textbook Activities
Recent research in second language acquisition found that learners reached higher levels of achievement when grammar practice included the processing and negotiation of meaning. This study explored the degree to which certain textbook activities reflected the earlier findings. A typology of production activities — based on the degree to which the activities required learners to process meaning — was established. The activities for two grammar poi…
Prototype categorization and phonological split
This paper examines the phonological split of Latin /tj/ and /kj/ in Italian within a cognitive, prototype framework, in which sound change is characterized as phonetically and lexically gradual. The analysis reveals that (1) the process by which speakers assign the allophonic variants produced by assimilation of the dental and velar to the following yod to their respective phonemes can be described as prototype categorization, which is argued to…
Effective Integration of Reading in the Communicative Italian (FL) Classroom
L'uso delle preposizioni in italiano. Guida e esercizi per corsi universitari
Theory into Practice
Lightening the Teacher's Load
Jn elementary Italian language textbooks, students often run into lists of forms that they are expected to memorize. In addition, tables of information, such as the one presenting all the possible articulated prepositions, can suggest a need for memorization rather than providing a productive model to generate all forms. Labeling elements as exceptions and presenting forms in tables to be memorized can be viewed as a veiled claim that the languag…
Verbal suppletion
In this paper, the A. attempt to show that person-number suppletive replacements follow language-specific alternation patterns, or templates, which mark the positions of stem alternations often shared by several verbs. These paradigmatic frameworks are stored in the lexicon with their verb forms and guide verbal restructuring processes by serving as the base configuration for suppletive replacements. The relative strength of a pattern is directly…
Foreign Language Textbook Activities
Recent research in second language acquisition found that learners reached higher levels of achievement when grammar practice included the processing and negotiation of meaning. This study explored the degree to which certain textbook activities reflected the earlier findings. A typology of production activities — based on the degree to which the activities required learners to process meaning — was established. The activities for two grammar poi…
Alternatives to Mechanical Drills for the Early Stages of Language Practice in Foreign Language Textbooks
There is a growing body of research indicating that mechanical drills do not facilitate the development of explicit or implicit knowledge. This study identifies the inadequate aspects of mechanical drills and offers alternative activities for the early stages of language practice, whose formats and features comply with recent research in the learning and acquisition of foreign languages. Wong and VanPatten's (2003) referential structured input ac…
New Messaging and Intercultural Competence Training in Response to Falling Enrollments in World Languages
The trend in declining enrollments in world language courses demands investigation into likely causes and thoughtful solutions to resolve the crisis. We explore common negative attitudes form the general public toward world language study, and conclude that frustration stems from speaking proficiency as the perceived sole measure of success – a skill that takes time to achieve and may be lost without consistent practice. We propose new messaging …
Verbal suppletion
In this paper, the A. attempt to show that person-number suppletive replacements follow language-specific alternation patterns, or templates, which mark the positions of stem alternations often shared by several verbs. These paradigmatic frameworks are stored in the lexicon with their verb forms and guide verbal restructuring processes by serving as the base configuration for suppletive replacements. The relative strength of a pattern is directly…
Verbal suppletion
In this paper, the A. attempt to show that person-number suppletive replacements follow language-specific alternation patterns, or templates, which mark the positions of stem alternations often shared by several verbs. These paradigmatic frameworks are stored in the lexicon with their verb forms and guide verbal restructuring processes by serving as the base configuration for suppletive replacements. The relative strength of a pattern is directly…
Lightening the Teacher's Load
Jn elementary Italian language textbooks, students often run into lists of forms that they are expected to memorize. In addition, tables of information, such as the one presenting all the possible articulated prepositions, can suggest a need for memorization rather than providing a productive model to generate all forms. Labeling elements as exceptions and presenting forms in tables to be memorized can be viewed as a veiled claim that the languag…
Theory into Practice
L'uso delle preposizioni in italiano. Guida e esercizi per corsi universitari
Effective Integration of Reading in the Communicative Italian (FL) Classroom
Prototype categorization and phonological split
This paper examines the phonological split of Latin /tj/ and /kj/ in Italian within a cognitive, prototype framework, in which sound change is characterized as phonetically and lexically gradual. The analysis reveals that (1) the process by which speakers assign the allophonic variants produced by assimilation of the dental and velar to the following yod to their respective phonemes can be described as prototype categorization, which is argued to…
Foreign Language Textbook Activities
Recent research in second language acquisition found that learners reached higher levels of achievement when grammar practice included the processing and negotiation of meaning. This study explored the degree to which certain textbook activities reflected the earlier findings. A typology of production activities — based on the degree to which the activities required learners to process meaning — was established. The activities for two grammar poi…
A Usage-Based Analysis of Multiple Outcomes
Article A USAGE-BASED ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE OUTCOMES: THE COGNITIVE, PHONETIC, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SOUND CHANCE was published on January 1, 2004 in the journal Folia Linguistica (volume 38, issue Historica-vol-25-1-2)
Prego! An Invitation to Italian
Preface Capitolo preliminare-Buon giorno, Italia! Perche l'italiano? A. Saluti e espressioni di cortesia Curiosita: Ciao B. In classe C. Alfabeto e suoni D. Numeri da uno a cento E. Calendario Piccolo ripasso Videoteca: Amici di famiglia Parole da ricordare Presentiamo l'Italia Capitolo 1-Una italiana Vocabolario preliminare: Una italiana Angolo musicale: Tutta la mia citta Grammatica A. Nomi: genere e numero Curiosita: Piazze e fontane d'Italia …
Alternatives to Mechanical Drills for the Early Stages of Language Practice in Foreign Language Textbooks
There is a growing body of research indicating that mechanical drills do not facilitate the development of explicit or implicit knowledge. This study identifies the inadequate aspects of mechanical drills and offers alternative activities for the early stages of language practice, whose formats and features comply with recent research in the learning and acquisition of foreign languages. Wong and VanPatten's (2003) referential structured input ac…
Italian clitics
The pragmatic functionality of atonic double-object clitic clusters in fourteenth-century Florentine
Throughout the thirteenth century in the dialect of Florence the order of clitic pronouns in double-object clusters in which the dat ( ive ) was first- or secondperson singular or plural was acc ( usative )– dat . During the fourteenth century variation in the order arose so that both the acc – dat and the dat – acc order were possible. By the fifteenth century, however, the variation was resolved in favor of dat – acc , the pattern found today i…
New Messaging and Intercultural Competence Training in Response to Falling Enrollments in World Languages
The trend in declining enrollments in world language courses demands investigation into likely causes and thoughtful solutions to resolve the crisis. We explore common negative attitudes form the general public toward world language study, and conclude that frustration stems from speaking proficiency as the perceived sole measure of success – a skill that takes time to achieve and may be lost without consistent practice. We propose new messaging …
The impact of explicit instruction in intercultural competence in the world language classroom
This article describes a research study of a three‐semester elementary Italian language curriculum at a large Midwestern research university that incorporates intercultural competence (IC) training through cognitive dissonance image analyses, conversations with native speakers, classroom discussion, and reflections to determine the impact of this curriculum on learners’ development of IC. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered over three…
Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (8 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)