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Dr. Elisa Gironzetti
egironzetti@leomail.tamuc.edu
Applied Linguistics Laboratory, Department of Literature and Languages, Texas A&M University – Commerce E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages (www.e-journall.org)
Further and Higher Education
Name Award Dissertation Date of award Name of institution
Spanish Language and Linguistics
PhD – Sobresaliente Cum Laude – International Doctorate Mention
Areas of research: Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Applied Linguistics (Spanish).
“Experimental Pragmatic Study of Graphic Humour in Spanish and Italian and its Applications to the Teaching of FL/L2”.
07/22/2013
Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Name
Award
Thesis Date of award Name of institution
Teaching and Promoting the Italian Language and Culture Abroad (PROMOITALS) Master’s Degree
Research areas: General Linguistics, Italian Linguistics, Problems and Methods of Teaching Italian as FL/SL, Teaching Methodologies in the Italian FL/SL Class.
“L’umorismo a lezione. Una proposta didattica” (“The Use of Humour in the FL/SL Class. A Didactic Proposal.”)
03/03/2010
Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) Name
Award Practicum Date of award Name of institution
Teaching English and Spanish as FL/SL
Master’s Degree - Most Outstanding Student Award Hogeschool Utrecht (The Netherlands)
07/03/2008
Universidad de Alicante (Spain) Name
Award Thesis
Date of award Name of institution
Languages and Techniques for Information and Communication University Degree. 110/110 Cum Laude
“Il processo di sostituzione linguistica nella stampa spagnola e italiana dei settori informatico e musicale” (“The Process of Linguistic Substitution in the IT and Music Sectors of the Spanish and Italian Press”).
11/04/2006
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy)
Certificates - FACS, Facial Action Coding System. 2013
- Moodle. 2011
- Las lenguas de especialidad en el ámbito profesional y académico. 2008
- ¿Cómo desarrollar la perspectiva del estudiante de ELE como agente social, hablante
intercultural y aprendiente autónomo a través de un método? 2007
- ECDL, European Computer Driving Licence. 2003
Publications
Article Muñoz Basols, Javier; Gironzetti, Elisa, Pérez Sinusia, Yolanda (2013). Consolidar el dominio de la lengua oral en los niveles C1-C2. Revista New Routes, 51, Disal: Brasil: 44-47.
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Book Muñoz Basols, Javier; Gironzetti, Elisa, Pérez Sinusia, Yolanda (2013). A debate. Estrategias comunicativas para la expresión oral. Libro del alumno. Madrid: Edelsa.
Book Muñoz Basols, Javier; Gironzetti, Elisa, Pérez Sinusia, Yolanda (2013). A debate. Estrategias comunicativas para la expresión oral. Guía metodológica. Madrid: Edelsa.
Book Chapter Padilla García, Xose; Gironzetti, Elisa (2012). “Humor e ironía en las viñetas cómicas periodísticas: un estudio pragmático-intercultural entre el español y el italiano”. In Plasencia, María Elena; García, Carmen (Eds.) Estudios de pragmática y comunicación intercultural en el mundo hispanohablante (93-133). Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi.
Book Chapter Padilla García, Xose; Gironzetti, Elisa (2012). “Translating Graphic Jokes”. In Muñoz-Basols, Javier; Fouto, Caterina; Soler Gonzalez, Laura; Fisher, Tyler (Coords.) The Limits of Literary Translation: Expanding Frontiers in Iberian Languages (176-188). Problemata Literaria series, Kassel: Reichenberger.
Article Gironzetti, Elisa (2010) “L’umorismo in italiano: proposte didattiche”. In LinguaDue nº2, Milano:
Università degli Studi di Milano. http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/promoitals/article/view/647
Book Review Gironzetti, Elisa (2010) “MUÑOZ-BASOLS, J.; DAVIS, M.; NÚÑEZ PIÑEIRO, O. (2010), Speed up your Spanish. Strategies to avoid common errors, London and New York, Routledge, 259 pages”. In RedEle, Madrid: Ministerio de Educación.
http://www.educacion.es/redele/RevistaJunio2010/Gironetti_rese%F1a.pdf
Article Padilla García, Xose; Gironzetti, Elisa; Martínez Jiménez, Irene; Pastor Sánchez, Alberto (2009). “Las TICS al servicio de la clase de pronunciación”. In V Foro de Profesores de E/LE, Valencia: Universitat de Valencia.
http://www.uv.es/foroele/foro5/Gironzetti_Martinez_Pastor.pdf
Article Gironzetti, Elisa; Pastor Sánchez, Alberto (2008). “¿Te vas de casa o de caza? Una propuesta para la enseñanza del sonido a alumnos italianos de E/LE”. In Martí Contreras, Jorge (Coord.), Teoría y práctica docente: actas del II Congreso Internacional de Lengua, Literatura y Cultura de E/LE, Onda: JMC.
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2702560
Article Gironzetti, Elisa; Martínez Jiménez, Irene (2008). "La bruja Etxebarría y su bola de cristal”. In IV
Foro de Profesores de E/LE, Valencia: Universitat de Valencia.
http://www.uv.es/foroele/foro4/Foro4_2008_Gironzetti_Martinez.pdf
Book Review Gironzetti, Elisa (2007). FERNANDEZ GIL, J. Fonética para profesores de español: de la teoría a la práctica, Madrid, Arco/Libros, 2007, 614 pages”. In Español Actual, Revista de Español vivo, nº 87. Madrid: Arco Libros.
http://www.aecid.es/export/sites/default/web/galerias/bibliotecas/descargas/RevistasBH/espaxol -actual87-2007.pdf
Book Review Gironzetti, Elisa (2007). "RUTHSTALLER, S. and LORENZO BERGUILLOS, F. (2004) eds., La competencia lingüística y comunicativa en el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera, Edinumen: Sevilla”. In ELUA, Estudios de Lingüística de la Universidad de Alicante, nº 21. Alicante.
http://www.ua.es/dpto/dfelg/publicaciones/estudios-linguistica/indices/n21_es.pdf
Article Padilla García, Xose; Gironzetti, Elisa; Martínez Jiménez, Irene; Pastor Sánchez, Alberto (2007) "Cómo (auto-) evaluar la pronunciación”. In Pastor Cesteros, Susana (Coord.) La evaluación en el aprendizaje y la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera / segunda lengua: XVIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación para la Enseñanza del Español como lengua Extranjera (ASELE).
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Article Gironzetti, Elisa; Pastor Sánchez, Alberto (2007). “¿Por qué mi español suena a italiano? Análisis fonético-contrastivo español/italiano”. In III Foro de Profesores de E/LE. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia.
http://www.uv.es/foroele/foro3/Gironzetti_Pastor.pdf
Conferences
Conference name Institution and dates Poster
Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use
University of Connecticut at Storrs, June 12-14, 2014.
Gironzetti, Elisa. “Smile synchronicity and patterns in dyadic conversations” Conference name
Institution and dates Presentation
4th Humor Research Conference 2014, Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Humor Texas A&M University-Commerce at Rockwall, February 21-23, 2014.
Gironzetti, Elisa & Christian F. Hempelmann. “The Interlingual Lexical Field of Smiling and Laughing in English, French, Italian, and Spanish”
Conference name Institution and dates Presentation
Texas A&M University System 11th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium Texas A&M University-Kingsville, November 8, 2013.
Gironzetti, Elisa. “Smiling Gestures and Intensity in Naturalistic Conversation” Conference name
Institution and dates Poster
DFW – Metroplex Linguistic Conference 2013
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, October 26, 2013.
Gironzetti, Elisa & Christian F. Hempelmann. “A Method to Approach the Lexical Field of Smiling and Laughing”
Conference name Institution and dates Poster
Graduate Research Assistant Symposium 2013 Texas A&M University – Commerce, May 7, 2013.
Gironzetti, Elisa. “A Pragmatic Study of Cartoons Comprehension” Conference name
Institution and dates Poster
NETHRC - 3rd North East Texas Humor Research Conference 2013 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 22-24 February 2013.
Gironzetti, Elisa. “Understanding Humor. A Pragmatic Analysis of a Corpus of Cartoons” Conference name
Institution and dates Presentation
12th International Pragmatics Conference IPrA University of Manchester, 3-8 July 2011.
Gironzetti, Elisa; Padilla García, Xose. “Joke or lie? A neo-Gricean proposal applied to the analysis of graphic jokes”. Panel on Irony and Humour.
Conference name Institution and dates Presentation
XIV Forum for Iberian Studies “The Limits of Literary Translation” Exeter College and The Taylor Institution, Oxford, 24-25 June 2011.
Gironzetti, Elisa; Padilla García, Xose. “Is it possible to translate graphic jokes? How a pragmatic analysis of humour can contribute to literary translation”
Conference name Institution and dates Presentation
Symposium on Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication in Spanish Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 25-26 June 2009. Padilla García, Xose; Gironzetti, Elisa. “Humour and irony in graphic jokes: a pragmatic and intercultural study of Spanish and Italian”
Conference name Institution and dates Poster
XXIV International Meeting of the Association of Young Linguists Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 9 May 2009
Gironzetti, Elisa. “Tú es que tienes la mirada sucia. Pragmatic analysis of humour and irony in Italian and Spanish”
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Conference name Institution and dates Presentation
II International Congress of Spanish Language, Literature and Culture University of Virginia and Catholic University of Valencia, May 2008
Gironzetti, Elisa; Pastor Sánchez, Alberto “¿Te vas de casa o de caza? Una propuesta para la enseñanza del sonido /Θ/ a alumnos italianos de E/LE”
Research Grants and Scholarships
Scholarship Year
Mary Rives Bowman Scholarship – Texas A&M University-Commerce 2014
Scholarship Year
Adelle Rogers Clark Scholarship – Texas A&M University-Commerce 2014
Project Awarding body Grant Principal investigator
Pragmatic Study of Humour in Spanish and Italian Juan Gil-Albert Cultural Institute of Alicante.
Grant for Academic Research in a Foreign Country 2009. Gironzetti Elisa Project Awarding body Grant Principal investigator Pronuncia Bien University of Alicante
GITE-09015-UA (Technologic and Educational Innovation Group - New Group) Dr. Xose Padilla
Project Awarding body Grant Principal investigator
Applications of Irony and Humour in a FL/SL Class (FFI2008-00179) Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
National Research Project Grant Dr. Leonor Ruiz Gurillo
Administrative Experience and Service
Dates Role Institution
Since March 2013
Co-founder and Co-editor in chief
E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages,
www.e-journall.org Dates Role Institution Since August 2014 Referee
The Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (Routledge) Dates
Role Institution
2014
Member of the Committee for the Assessment of the Spanish Graduate and Undergraduate Programs (Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
Texas A&M University – Commerce Dates
Role Institution
2014
Member of the Spanish Search Committee for the new Director of the Spanish Programs, Open Rank
Texas A&M University - Commerce Dates
Role Institution
2014
Member of the Program Committee of the 4th Humor Research Conference 2014 Texas A&M University - Commerce
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Dates Role Institution
2013, 2014
Judge for the NET-OLE (North East Texas Organization of Language Educators) competition
Texas A&M University - Commerce Dates
Role Institution
2011
Member of the Organizing Committee of the I International Symposium on Irony and Humour
Research group GRIALE and University of Alicante Dates
Role Institution
01/06/2008 - 30/11/2008
Teaching Administrator (Applied Modern Languages)
International Relations Society (SRI, now CSI), A.U.L.A.S., University of Alicante. Dates
Role Institution
2007
Member of the Organizing Committee of the XVIII ASELE International Congress ASELE and University of Alicante
Teaching Experience
Current Position Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dates and Employer Since Fall 2013 - Texas A&M University - Commerce
Courses taught SPA 543 (Spanish Applied Sociolinguistics, Graduate) – Fall 2013 SPA 131 (Elementary Spanish I - Undergraduate) – Fall 2013
SPA 334 (Spanish for Heritage Speakers - Undergraduate) – Spring 2014 SPA 475 (Methods in Teaching Spanish - Undergraduate) – Spring 2014 SPA 132 (Elementary Spanish II – Undergraduate) – Summer II 2014, Fall 2014
Position held Spanish and Italian Language Tutor
Dates and Employer October 2010 – July 2012, University of Bristol, HiPLA / Department of Italian Courses taught Spanish for General Purposes Level 1 Grade 2 (post GCSE) and Level 1 Grade 3
Italian Language 2: Written Skills (Grammatica, Lettura, Scrittura e Traduzione) Italian Language 1 (ab initio students)
Position held Italian and Spanish Teaching Fellow
Dates and Employer 2011 –2012, University of Bath, Department of Languages and International Studies
Courses taught Italian Language 1A, 1B, 1C
Spanish Language 1B
Position held Spanish Language Coordinator and Instructor
Dates and Employer April 2010 - July 2011, Leftbank Language Centre (Bristol) Position held Italian Language Part-Time Instructor
Dates and Employer July 2010, University of Milan, Marco Polo Programme Position held English Language Instructor
Dates and Employer February 2010, CSI Language Centre, University of Alicante Position held Italian Language Instructor
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Position held Italian Language Instructor
Dates and Employer 01/11/2008 - 23/06/2009, Akralingua Language Academy (San Vicente del Raspeig) Position held Italian Language Instructor
Dates and Employer 13/10/2008 - 09/12/2008, Maiden Training Centre (Elda, Alicante) Position held Spanish Language Instructor
Dates and Employer July - August 2008, Proyecto Español (Alicante) Position held Italian Language Instructor
Dates and Employer April - May 2008, CSI Language Centre, University of Alicante Position held Spanish Language Instructor
Dates and Employer September - October 2007, Hogeschool Utrecht (The Netherlands) Position held English Language Instructor
Dates and Employer 02/01/2007 - 31/10/2008, Alhambra Internacional - Acadomia (Alicante)
Further Professional Experience
Role Institution
FACS (Facial Action Coding System) coder
Collaboration in a research project at University of Geneva and Technical University of Munich
Role Freelance translator (since 2006)
Spanish – Italian – Spanish French – Italian / Spanish English – Italian / Spanish Course taught
Institution
Postgraduate seminar: How to use Praat to Teach Spanish Pronunciation. University of Alicante, Masters in Teaching Spanish and English as FL/SL Course taught
Institution
Specialized training: The Playful Component in the FL/L2 Classroom (2011 and 2013) / Strategies and Processes for Developing Linguistic Skills in the FL/L2 Classroom (2012)
University of Alicante and Cervantes Institute Course taught
Institution
Undergraduate course: Italian Language (A1/A2 CEFR). Università degli Studi di Milano, Marco Polo
Course taught Institution
Postgraduate seminar: How To Teach Spanish Pronunciation Online. The Pronuncia
Bien Project.
University of Alicante, Masters in Teaching Spanish and English as FL/SL Course taught
Institution
Undergraduate Erasmus course: Italian Language And Culture (A1/A2 CEFR) University of Alicante, Language Centre and Faculty of Arts
Course taught Institution
Postgraduate seminar: Teaching And Evaluating Spanish Pronunciation Using New Technologies.
