Associate Professor Bruno Di Biase

Associate Professor Bruno Di Biase

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts

ASSOC PROFESSOR,
Languages, Interpreting and Translation (SoHCA)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD The Australian National University
  • BA Macquarie University
  • NAATI III Nat Accreditation Auth for Translators & Interpret

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit - School of Humanities & Comm Arts
  • Languages, Interpreting and Translation (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:B.Dibiase@uws.edu.au
Extension:6292
Mobile:
Location:7.G.03
Bankstown
Website:

Publications

Books

  • Cardona, B. and Di Biase, B. (2008), 'Community Languages Matter!: Challenges and opportunities facing the Community Languages program in NSW', : University of Western Sydney 9781741081909.
  • Di Biase, B. (2002), 'Developing a second language: Acquisition, processing and pedagogy of Arabic, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish', : Language Australia 1876768568.

Chapters in Books

  • Di Biase, B. and Bettoni, C. (2012), 'Imparare a interrogare in una seconda lingua: ipotesi per l?italiano e l?inglese ', (Far) apprendere, usare e certificare una lingua straniera: studi in onore di Maria Serena Ambroso, Bonacci 9788875734374.
  • Di Biase, B. and Kawaguchi, S. (2012), 'Processability theory (PT)', The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition, Routledge 9780415877510.
  • Di Biase, B. and Kawaguchi, S. (2012), 'Processability theory (PT)', Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition, Routledge 9780415877510.
  • Di Biase, B. (2012), 'Imparare a interrogare in una seconda lingua : ipotesi per l'italiano e l'inglese', (Far) Apprendere, Usare E Certificare Una Lingua Straniera: Studi in Onore di Maria Serena Ambroso, Bonacci Editore 9788875734374.
  • Di Biase, B., Bettoni, C. and Nuzzo, E. (2009), 'Postverbal subject in Italian L2: a Processability Theory approach', Research in Second Language Acquisition: Emperical Evidence across Languages, Cambridge Scholars 9781443809610.
  • Di Biase, B. and Bettoni, C. (2008), 'Teaching learnable grammar', New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture: Case Studies from an International Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781847186386.
  • Di Biase, B., Bettoni, C. and Ferraris, S. (2008), 'Sviluppo sintattico e sviluppo morfologico: ipotesi di corrispondenze nella Processabilitadell 'italiano L2', Competenze lessicali e discorsive nell 'acquisizione di ingue seconde (Lexical and discourse competence in second language acquisition), Guerra Edizioni 9788855701013.
  • Di Biase, B. (2008), 'Focus on Form and development in L2 learning', Processability Approaches to Second Language Development and Second Language Learning, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847184162.
  • Di Biase, B. and Bettoni, C. (2008), 'Lessico verbale questioni di processabilita' in Italiano L2', Lessico e apprendimenti: Il ruolo del lessico nella linguistica educativa, Franco Angeli 9788846495907.
  • Di Biase, B. and Bettoni, C. (2007), 'Funzioni discorsive e processabilita in italiano L2', Imparare una lingua. Recenti sviluppi teorici e proposte applicative, Guerra Editore 9788877159977.
  • Di Biase, B., Kawaguchi, S., Pienemann, M. and Hakansson, G. (2005), 'Processing Constraints on L1 Transfer', Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches, Oxford University Press 9780195151770.
  • Kawaguchi, S., Di Biase, B. and Pienemann, M. (2005), 'Extending Processability theory', Cross-linguistic aspects of Processability Theory, John Benjamins Publishing Company 9027241414.
  • Kawaguchi, S., Di Biase, B., Pienemann, M. and Hakansson, G. (2005), 'Processability, typological distance and L1 transfer', Cross-linguistic aspects of Processability Theory, John Benjamins Publishing Company 9027241414.
  • Di Biase, B. (2002), 'Focusing strategies in second language development: a classroom-vased study of Italian L2 in primary school', Developing a second language: Acquisition, processing and Pedagogy of Arabic, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Language Australia 1876768568.

Journal Articles

  • Kawaguchi, S. and Di Biase, B. (2012), 'Acquiring procedural skills in L2: Processability theory and skill acquisition', Studies in Language Sciences, 30.
  • Kawaguchi, S. and Di Biase, B. (2012), 'Acquiring procedural skills in L2 : Processability theory and skill acquisition', Studies in Language Sciences, 28.
  • Bettoni, C. and Di Biase, B. (2011), 'Beyond canonical order: The acquisition of marked word orders in Italian as a second language', EUROSLA Yearbook, 29.
  • Kawaguchi, S. and Di Biase, B. (2009), 'Aligning Second Language Learning and Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Networking the Language Class, Tandem Learning and e-movies', The International Journal of Learning, 16.
  • Bettoni, C. and Di Biase, B. (2007), 'Come sviluppare la resa in grammatica del lessico in italiano L2: Un esperimento in una scuola primaria di Sydney [How to promote grammatical development from lexical acquisition in Italian L2: An experiment in a Sydney Primary School]', Studi di Glottodidattica, 13.
  • Qi, R., Di Biase, B. and Campbell, S. (2006), 'The transition from nominal to pronominal person reference in the early language of a mandarin-english bilingual child', International Journal of Bilingualism, 29.
  • Di Biase, B. and Bettoni, C. (2005), 'Sviluppo obbligato e progresso morfosintattico: un caso di processabilita' in Italiano L2', Itals: Didattica e linguistica dell'italiano come lingua straniera, 22.
  • Di Biase, B. and Kawaguchi, S. (2002), 'Exploring the typological plausibility of Processability Theory: language development in Italian second language and Japanese second language', Second Language Research, 29.

Conference Papers

  • Kawaguchi, S. and Di Biase, B. (2010), 'Acquiring procedural skills in L2: Processability theory and skill Acquisition', Twelfth Annual Japanese Society for Language Sciences International Conference, JSLS2010, .

Research

Current Projects

Title:Italian roots in Australian soil: Tracing regional linguistic heritage in first and second generation bilinguals
Years:2011-11-09 - 2013-05-31
ID:P00020489
UWS Researchers:Catherine Best and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:Visiting Fellowships: Prof Manfred Pienemann and Prof Gisela Hakansson
Years:2003-01-30 - 2004-01-29
ID:P0013748
UWS Researchers:Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Visiting Scholar Professor Gisela Hakansson
Years:2000-07-13 - 2000-12-31
ID:P0011026
UWS Researchers:Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:A Logitudinal and Comparative Study for the Attainment of Language Proficiency
Years:1998-01-01 - 1999-05-31
ID:P0012276
UWS Researchers:Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • Commonwealth Dept of Education Training & Youth Affairs
Title:Timing and Gesture: A Window into the Art of Teaching
Years:2002-01-01 - 2002-12-31
ID:P0011522
UWS Researchers:Stephen Malloch and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:International Visiting Fellowships: Prof Li Wei and Dr Zhu Hua
Years:2004-03-31 - 2005-03-30
ID:P0013774
UWS Researchers:Ruying Qi, Bruno Di Biase and Stuart Campbell
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:A Pilot Study of the NSW Community Languages Schools Program - an extension of the empirical base
Years:2007-03-12 - 2007-04-30
ID:P0015604
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • NSW Federation of Community Language Schools
Title:A Pilot Study of the NSW Community Languages Schools Program
Years:2006-06-20 - 2006-09-20
ID:P0015227
UWS Researchers:Gregory Noble and Bruno Di Biase
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Education & Training
Title:A comparative study of second language teaching program outcomes under different implementation conditions in upper primary school
Years:1999-01-01 - 2001-12-31
ID:P0009542
UWS Researchers:Bruno Di Biase and Mark Johnston
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

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