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The main focus area of the group is represented by research about applied linguistics and corpus linguistics.
VALICO.org is the main result of our activity, an ongoing research devoted to linguists and to those teachers and learners of Italian as a foreign language who want to train themselves in a computer aided environment. It is based on the learner corpus VALICO (VArietà Lingua Italiana Corpus Online, i.e. 'Online Corpus of the Learning Varieties of the Italian Language'), created at the Turin University in 2003. It aims to be a window onto the world of learning and teaching Italian as a foreign language and wants to offer:
Further resources were realized by the research group:
The first working phase was launched in the framework of a FIRB national project devoted to “Italian language in the variety of texts” (2001, coordinator: prof. Carla Marello). The group was then involved in many projects supported by Italian funding bodies:
and in cooperation with:
International cooperation with Italian or Romance Linguistics Departments:
- IUD Heidelberg, prof. Giovanni Rovere
- IULA at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, prof. Janet DeCesaris
- University of Basel, prof. Angela Ferrari
- University of Beograd, prof. Julijana Vučo
- University of Copenhagen, prof. Erling Strudsholm
- University of Reading, prof. Federico Faloppa