CURRICULUM VITAE
Tanya Roy
Date of birth: 16th March 1964, Delhi (India)
Address: E 3 Kailash Colony, New Delhi 110048, India
Phone: +39 Res. 0091-11-26228650
Mobile 0091-9811477930
e-mail: tanya_roy@hotmail.com
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EDUCATION
Education:
2001 (ongoing): enrolled in Dottorato di ricerca in Linguistica, linguistica applicata, ingegneria linguistica at the University of Turin (Italy)
2000: Graduated from Università degli Studi di Pisa in Lettere Moderne with a thesis on the teaching of Italian in India, more specifically L'apprendimento dell'italiano da parte di discenti indiani a Delhi: analisi di un corpus di lingua scritta e parlata con particolare riferimento ad "anche". (110/110 with honours)
1989: M.A. Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Delhi University
1984: B.A. (Hons.) Psychology, Kamala Nehru College, New Delhi
1984: Certificate in Advanced Italian, Italian Embassy Cutural Centre, New Delhi (89/100)
1983: Certificate in Beginner's Italian, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi (98/100)
Refresher Courses:
1999: Attended a Refresher Course for Teachers of Italian held by Prof. Pierangela Diadori (Università di Siena) in New Delhi, organized by the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
2004: Attended a Refresher Course for Teachers of Italian hel by Prof. Lucilla Lopriore (Università di Cassino) in New Delhi, organized by the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
Scholarships:
1989: Scholarships from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Laurea course in Lettere moderne, University of Pisa, Italy
1987: Scholarships from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Diploma di Abilitazione all'insegnamento della Lingua Italiana all'Estero, University for Foreigners, Perugia (Italy), (27/30)
1987: Scholarship from the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs for Advanced Course in Italian Language and Culture, University for Foreigners, Perugia (Italy), (28/30)
1984: Scholarship for Intermediate Language Course in Italian, University for Foreigners, Perugia (Italy), (27/30)
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ACTIVITIES
Current Appointment:
2002-2004: Lecturer in Italian Language, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University, India
Language teaching in the part-time courses include:
Certificate in Italian: Text Comprehension and Written Expression; Oral Expression
Diploma in Italian: Text comprehension and Written Expression
Advanced Diploma: Advanced Study of the Language
Teaching in the full time B.A. (Hons. in Italian) course includes:
1st year: Communicative Italian
Written Expression and Comprehension
Oral expression
Reading Literature: a selection of short stories by Giovanni Verga
2nd year: Italian for Specific Purposes (writing and translation); Oral expression
Teaching in the master of Arts in Italian includes the papers:
Culture and globalisation
Social History of Italy
Translation: Theory and Practice
The M. Phil. course being taught this year is:
Engaging with Texts (Literature/Translation): Se questo è un uomo and La tregua by Primo Levi
Previous Appontiments:
1998-2001: Taught both the Certificate of Proficiency in Italian and Diploma of Proficiency in Italian courses at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
1998: Taught in the coruse for employees of Piaggio, New Delhi
1997: Taught in the two months' intensive course for engineers recruited by FIAT, organized by the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
1994-1999: Taught Italian Language at all levels (Certificates I, II and III and the corso di conversazione) at the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India
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LINGUISTIC COMPETENCES
English: First language through school and university in India
Italian: near native
Bengali: Mother tongue; no formal education in Bengali
Hindi: Second language through school and subsidiary subject during B.A.
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INTERESTS
I am interested in collecting Learner Corpora and in then working on corpus driven analyses. It is interesting to see how linguistic interference is incorporated into various stages of Interlanguage. The results ca then be used to modify and elaborate teaching materials for that specific group of learners.
I am also interested in considering possibilities of use of corpora by foreign language learners.
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CONFERENCES
August 2004: Participated in a workshop on Elaborating Didactic Material for Foreign Language Learners in India with a paper on "A Unit of Exercises". The workshop was oganized by The Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
August 2004: Participated in a workshop on Foreign Language Teaching in India with a paper on "Creativity and Materials Production". The workshop was organized by the department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University
March 2004: Attended the International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia at Showa Women's University, Tokyo and the PC workshop of the International Symposium on Learner Corpora in Asia conducted by Michael Barlow
May 2000: Postgraduate Annual Seminar on Italian Studies, University College, London with the paper "Teaching Italian in Delhi"
Lectures:
December 2003: a series of four lectures on the teaching of Italian in India to graduate students of Didattica dell'italiano at the University of Turin, Italy
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PUBLICATIONS
2000: "Learning a foreign language in India: A case study of Italian", Hispanic Studies
2000, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 19, 71-83.
2000: Review of "Italy, tradition and modernity" by Sampark, Delhi-Calcutta, 2000, Hispanic Studies 2000, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 19, 105-6
2000: Corpus dell'italiano come L2 in India , Temi di esercitazione per l'apprendimento della lingua italiana, raccolti da Tanya Roy, http://www.intratext.com/.
Collaborations:
2000: Collaborated in the publication of "Modern Italian Poetry - A Bilingual Anthology" (collected and translated by G. Singh and G. Barfoot)
2000: Collaborated in the issue of Sampark: A Journal of Global Understanding on Italy: Tradition and Modernity (chief editors Stefano Fossati and Paolo Favero)
Professional Activities:
1998: Organized a poetry reading session on The Journey of Ulysses: Italian Rhythms and European Landscapes at Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with Delhi University and the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
1998: Organized a meeting of the Italian poet Luciano Erba with students and faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with Dehli University and the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
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