Talks & Presentations

SUMMER CAMP

Nicora, F., Zafferri, S. (2025) Towards 250 Years of Modern Languages. 'From Policy to Practice: The Italian Summer Camp as a Model for Language Promotion in Irish Schools'. University of Limerick.. 28 NOVEMBER 25 (POSTER).

Nicora, F., Curreli, F. (2025) Languages Connect Annual Meeting, 'Summer Camp in Italian 2nd edition'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Hub Dublin (Ireland). 15 MAY 25.

Nicora, F., Curreli, F., Zafferri, S. (2024) Languages Connect Annual Meeting, 'Summer Camp in Italian 1st edition'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Digital Hub Dublin (Ireland). 11 APRIL 24.​​

 

DIDACTIC AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION 

Nicora, F., Zafferri, S. (2025) Towards 250 Years of Modern Languages. Promoting Italian language and culture with AI-powered subtitling: evidence from workshops in Irish secondary schools. University of Limerick.. 28th NOVEMBER 25 (POSTER).

Nicora, F. (2025) Seminar: Learning Languages through Didactic Audiovisual Translation, 'Applying DAT to foster creativity in language learning'. University of Galway, 12th NOVEMBER 25. (Research Development Scheme -RDS- funding, SLLC, University of Galway)​​

Nicora, F. (2025) Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, 'From Clicks to Culture: Engaging Teen Learners with AI Subtitling and Post-Editing in the Italian Language Classroom'. 3rd SEPTEMBER 25.​​

Zafferri, S. (2025) AI in the Italian Classroom. NILI UK Annual Meeting. University of Edinburgh, 13th JUNE 2025. Rewriting the script for Foreign Language Learning: a study on the integration of Artificial Intelligence in an Audiovisual Translation course.

Nicora, F. (2025) Research Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 'Creativity, Didactic Audiovisual Translatoin and Young People'. University of Galway, 23 MAY 2025.

Nicora, F. (2024) VII Congres Internacional Ciencia y Traducción, 'Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Creativity'. [Oral Presentation], Universidad de Córdoba (Spain) in collaboration with the University of Salento (Italy). 22-24 MAY 24.​​

Nicora, F., Zafferri, S. (2024) The 4th annual conference of the Translation Studies Network in Ireland: 'Translation and Creativity', University of Galway. 'Creative subtitling in the Italian language classroom: an analysis of undergraduate students' perceptions on the challenges and benefits of the learning progress'. [Poster Presentation], University of Galway, Ireland , 25-26 APRIL 24.

Nicora, F. (2024) Congreso Internacional de Paratraducción, Interlinguas y Transmedia (ParatradIT), 'Combining explicit perception-production training and creative audiovisual translation tasks to develop prosodic competence in Italian as a foreign language'. [Oral Presentation], University of Vigo, Spain. 20-22 MARCH 24.

Nicora, F. (2023) Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway. 'Didactic Audiovisual Translation for Children: A New Gateway to a Better Language Education'. [Oral Presentation], Teaching and Learning Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, University of Galway, Ireland , 13-OCT-23.

Nicora, F. (2023) 'Audiovisual Translation and foreign language vocabulary acquisition: a study on children learners of Italian', [Oral Presentation] 1st International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain, 22-24 March 2023.

Nicora, F. (2020) ‘Moving online: using Zoom and audiovisual translation activities to e-teach Italian foreign language to children’, [Oral Presentation] International Conference on visual literacy and digital communication: the role of media in new educational practice, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 18-19 December 2020.

Nicora, F. (2019) ‘Designing a subtitling module for students of Italian for specific purposes’, [Oral Presentation] Crossing Boundaries in Language Teaching: Northern Ireland and Beyond LTNI19 Conference, Queen’s University, 3-4 May 2019, Belfast, United Kingdom U.K.

Nicora, F., Beltramello, A. (2018) ‘Captioning and re-voicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language. A didactic proposal for children’, [Oral Presentation] Languages, Linguistics and Technology, Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, 2-4 October, 2018 Lisbon, Portugal.

 

TRA-BALLIAMO PROJECT

Dianetti, M., Nicora, F. (2021) ‘Performative Arts in the promotion of Italian language and culture in Galway city and county: the TRA-Balliamo project’, [Oral Presentation] Research Day, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Galway, Ireland, 06 July 2021.

 

Peer-reviewed Papers 

AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION & YOUNG PEOPLE

Nicora, F. (2025). Unlocking the potential of audiovisual translation in young audiences' language education. In Borodo Michał and Díaz-Cintas Jorge (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences. Routledge.
Nicora, F., Lertola, J. (2024). First insights into keyword subtitling and free commentary tasks to enhance children's second language vocabulary acquisition. In Plaza-Lara Cristina, del Mar Ogea-Pozo María, and Botella-Tejera Carla (Eds.), Empirical Studies in Didactic Audiovisual Translation. Routledge.
Nicora, F. (2022). Moving online: Zoom and audiovisual translation tasks to teach foreign languages to children. In Adams Heather Mary, & Díaz-Cintas Jorge (Eds.) Audiovisual Translation in the Foreign Language Classroom [Special Issue].
Beltramello, A., Nicora, F. (2021). Captioning and revoicing activities to learn Italian as a foreign language: A didactic proposal for children. The Journal of Language and Teaching Technology, Rutgers University Press.

 

TRA-BALLIAMO PROJECT

Dianetti, M., Nicora, F. (2021). Didattica performativa nella promozione della lingua e cultura italiana in Irlanda. Il corpo e la danza come strumenti di apprendimento e ponti tra culture. Italiano LinguaDue, 13(2): 665-680.