Dr Antonia Rubino

PhD, MA, Dip.Ed., BA (Florence)
Senior Lecturer
Room 719, MacCallum Brennan Building (A18)

+61 2 9351 4608

Antonia Rubino has research interests in Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics and Linguistics. She has conducted extensive research in the Italo-Australian community, focussing on the changes occurring in the Italian language and dialects in the transition from the first to subsequent generations. She has published extensively in this area, and has presented seminars at a number of Universities (Australia, Italy, USA). She has co-authored a junior course of Italian in use in Australian secondary schools.

She was the Editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics from 2004 to 2006, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia from 2006 to 2008.

• Contact linguistics
• Bilingualism
• Language Teaching Methodologies
• Cross cultural studies

• Investigating linguistic practices of new migrants from Italy.
• Investigating the speech act of complaint in English and Italian. Joint project with Professor Camilla Bettoni, University of Verona.
• Preparing a monograph on the Sicilian community in Australia.

Books

• Lingua, identità e comunicazione in contesti anglofoni e italiani (ed) (Special issue of Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata). Pisa, 2007.
• Using and learning Italian in Australia (ed) (Special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, S18). Melbourne, 2004.
• Emigrazione e comportamento linguistico. Un’indagine sul trilinguismo dei siciliani e dei veneti in Australia [with C. Bettoni]. Galatina, 1996.

Book Chapters & Other Contributions

• (in press) Gli studi sull'italiano all'estero [with C. Bettoni.] In L. Serianni (ed) L'italiano nel mondo. Vol. 2, Part A. Turin, UTET.
• Immigrant minorities: Australia. In M. Hellinger & A. Pauwels (eds) Language and communication: Diversity and change (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics). Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2007, pp.87-122.
• From the image of language to language politics: Italian in Australia. In Krase, J. et al (Eds) Italian American politics: Local, global/cultural, personal. Selected essays – the 31st Annual Conference American Italian Historical Association. Chicago Heights, American Italian Historical Association, 2005, pp. 185-207.
• Trilinguismo e monolinguismo tra gli italo-australiani: due famiglie a confronto. In A. De Fina & F. Bizzoni (eds) Italiano e italiani fuori d’Italia. Perugia, Guerra, 2003, pp. 145-174.
• Prospettive di mantenimento linguistico: fase di vita e di comunità come fattori di variabilità tra gli italiani in Australia. In A. Valentini et als (eds) Ecologia linguistica. Rome, Bulzoni, 2003, pp. 309-329.
• Italian in Australia: past and new trends. In C. Kennedy (ed) Proceedings of the Innovations in Italian Teaching Workshop. Visit the Proceedings of the Innovations in Italian Teaching Workshop website, 2002.
• Comportamento linguistico e variabilità regionale nell’emigrazione italiana. [with C. Bettoni] In S. Vanvolsem et als (eds) L’italiano oltre frontiera. Leuven & Florence, Franco Cesati, 2000, pp. 131-151.
• Dialects, Dialect usage, Language attitudes, Italian and emigration, Sectorial languages. In G. Moliterno (ed) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. London & New York, Routledge, 2000.

Articles

• Reacting to complaints: Italians vs Anglo-Australians [with C. Bettoni] Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, 36 (3), pp.483-498.
• Istruzione bilingue e rivitalizzazione dell'italiano: il caso della scuola elementare bilingue di Sydney. ITALS: Didattica e linguistica dell'Italiano come lingua straniera, V, 14, 2007.
• Handling complaints cross-culturally: Italians vs Anglo-Australians. [with C. Bettoni] Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, 35 (2), 2006, pp. 339-358
• Linguistic practices and language attitudes of second-generation Italo-Australians. In S. Kipp & C. Norrby (eds) Community languages in practice: the case of Australia. Special Issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 180, 2006, pp. 71-88.
• Trilingual women as language mediators in the family: A Sicilian-Australian case-study. In A. Rubino (ed) Using and learning Italian in Australia. (ed) Melbourne, 2004, pp. 25-49.
• Teaching mixed-ability groups at tertiary level: the case of Italian. FULGOR 2(1), 2004.
• Due famiglie fra tre lingue. Italiano Oltre 1, 2002, pp. 47-52.
• Cosa succede all’italiano in Australia? Italiano e Scuola 1(4), 2001, pp. 5-8.
• Playing with languages: language alternation in Sicilian-Australians children’s conversation. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata 2, 2000, pp. 89-108.
• Le strategie per comunicare. Italiano Oltre 13, 1998, pp. 272-281.
• Language maintenance and language shift: Dialect vs Italian among Italo-Australians. [with C. Bettoni] Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 21(1), 1998, pp. 21-39.
• Italiano e dialetto fuori d’Italia. Un bilancio degli studi recenti fuori d’italia. Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia 22, 1998, pp. 393-403.
• Connecting language students through email. [with V. Tudini] Babel 33(10), 1998, pp. 18-21; 32-33.

Other

• Pronti, via! 1, 2, and 3. Student Book, Workbook, CD and Teachers Notes. [with M. Minelle Katis] Melbourne, 2000-2004.

Teaching & Supervision

• Italian Sociolinguistics
• Language and migration
• Language use through different mediums
• Italian language

In 2005 Dr Rubino was the recipient of one of a Faculty of Arts Teaching Award.

Recently completed theses

• PhD
  F. Ricatti: Embodying Italian Migrants: Impossible dialogues, spectral fantasies and the body. Letters to Mamma Lena (La Fiamma, Australia, 1956-1964).
• A. Strambi: The impact of Web-enhanced interaction and collaboration on the language learner. A longitudinal study of beginning learners of Italian at tertiary level.

• Convenor of the 27th conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, July 12-14, 2002.
• Convenor of the sessions on Language and Linguistics at the Conferences organised by the Australian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS): the Australian National University, September 2001; Treviso (Italy), June-July 2005.
• Member of the Program panel for the 32nd Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, Wollongong University, 2007.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of LingFest 2008, University of Sydney

• Vice President of the Applied Linguistics and member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics and of Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata (SILTA), Pisa.