Phd in LINGUISTICS

email: maria.roccaforte@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913753
building: Lettere Sede centrale
room: studio F Quarto piano

Maria Roccaforte is a Researcher (RTD-B) within Applied linguistics/Language teaching methodology (L-LIN/02) in the Modern languages and humanities department. She has obtained a degree in Linguistics cum laude and a PhD (with honours and publication of the thesis) in Teaching Methods (L-LIN/02) at the Sapienza University of Rome.
From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a junior researcher in a MIUR-FIRB project named VISEL; She collaborates with the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - National Council of Researchers CNR and she is academic expert on Teaching Modern Languages.
She has worked as Research Assistant at the Department of Linguistics of Sapienza University with a project aimed to assess the applicability of the notional-functional approach to Italian Sign Language teaching.
Since 2011, she coordinates Italian and foreign language courses for Sapienza Erasmus students. She works as a Communication Assistant/interpreter with deaf students, and as a Teacher in Italian Sign Language courses.
Maria Roccaforte’s research interests include Eye-tracking experiments in applied linguistics and second language research; ICT approaches for language teaching (BYOD, LIM, E-learning and Life-Long learning…); Italian and English language teaching to deaf learners and Signed language linguistics. She has participated as speaker at many conferences, lectures and seminars on Linguistics, Neuro and Psycholinguistics and Language Teaching Methods.