Camilla Bettoni
List of John Benjamins publications in which Camilla Bettoni is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2210-6480
Titles
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 11] 2011. vi, 272 pp.
Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics
Edited by Camilla Bettoni
[Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 4] 1987. iv, 204 pp.
2011 Beyond canonical order: The acquisition of marked word orders in Italian as a second language EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011), Roberts, Leah, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni (eds.), pp. 244–272 | Article
Learners can go a long way in making themselves understood by mapping conceptual arguments such as agent, event and patient straight onto canonical word order. However, in order to optimise communicative intentions they need to go beyond it. We will discuss such notions as canonical order,… read more
1998 Language maintenance and language shift: Dialect vs Italian among Italo-Australians Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21:1, pp. 21–39 | Article
Patterns of language use by Sicilians and Venetians living in Sydney are here presented with particular attention to the maintenance of Italian and Dialect under the impact of widespread shift to English. Data gathered by questionnaire self-reporting are analysed according to four main variables:… read more
1997 Plurilinguismo all'australiana: Tra rigorosa documentazione e appassionata difesa Language Problems and Language Planning 21:1, pp. 58–65 | Article
SUMMARY Multiculturalism the Australian Way: Between Rigorous Documentation and Passionate Defense Australia is an extraordinary country, not only because of the wealth of its linguistic raw material, but also for the scientific rigor with which it tries to document it and the political passion… read more
1994 Multiculturalism and Modern Languages in Australian Universities Language Problems and Language Planning 18:1, pp. 19–37 | Article
SOMMARIO Il multiculturalismo e le lingue moderne nelle università australiane In questo articolo si esamina l'insegnamento delle lingue moderne nelle istituzioni universitarie australiane, contrastando la diffusa immagine di paese multiculturale e multilingue che 1'Australia ha di se stessa con… read more
1991 The use of English among Italo-Australians in Sydney Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 14:1, pp. 59–89 | Article
This article presents the first results of a research project which investigates patterns of language use in the Italo-Australian community in Sydney. All three languages spoken by the majority of Italo-Australians are taken into account: Italian, dialect and English. This article focusses on… read more
1990 Italian Language Attrition in Sydney: The Role of Dialect Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 75–90 | Article
1989 Language Loss Among Italians in Australia Dimensions of Language Attrition, Bot, Kees de, Michael Clyne and T.J.M. van Els (eds.), pp. 37–50 | Article
1987 Introduction Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics, Bettoni, Camilla (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction
1987 Italian speakers in Australia: Creative in practice but traditional in attitudes Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics, Bettoni, Camilla (ed.), pp. 66–80 | Article
1987 Bibliography Italian in Australia: Applied linguistics, Bettoni, Camilla (ed.), pp. 197–202 | References