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Associate Professor Antonia Rubino
PhD, MA, Dip.Ed., BA (Florence), FAHA
Associate Professor
Phone
+61 2 9351 4608
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Antonia Rubino is a leading scholar in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, and her work focuses on multilingualism in migration contexts and its educational and policy implications. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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- Multilingualism and mobility in migration contexts
- Language maintenance/shift
- Language and identity
- Intercultural pragmatics
- Languages in education
Teaching
- Italian Sociolinguistics
- Language and migration
- Language use through different mediums
- Italian language
Dr Rubino was the 2021-2022 FASS3999 Coordinator.
In 2005 Dr Rubino was the recipient of one of a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award.
In 2020 Dr Rubino was one of the winners of the SUPRA Supervisor of the Year Award.
Supervision
Current Supervision
- Antonella Beconi (MPhil): "Perceptions of classroom climate, peer-relationships and sense of belonging among beginner students of Italian at University" (Lead supervisor).
Recently Completed Theses - PhD
- Talia Walker: Performance and perception of emailed apologies by University students to academic staff: A comparison of Australian learners of Italian to native speakers of Italian and of Australian English.
- Daniela Panico: Bilingual practices and language maintenance: The case of two Italian-Australian families
- F. Possemato: Creating pre-Evaluation opportunity spaces in IRE sequences: Evidence from Italian L2 classrooms in a University Context
- C. Davis: Managing and imagining migration: The role of Facebook groups in the lives of new Italian migrants in Australia.
- C. Palmieri: “Under the spell”: A study of the motivations of adult Australians to learn Italian in Sydney.
- M. Santello: Advertising to Italian bilinguals: The role of language dominance and language attitudes in the evaluation of advertising in Italian and in English.
- M. Zanoletti: Brett Whiteley's words and images: A translation studies approach.
- F. Ricatti: Embodying Italian Migrants: Impossible dialogues, spectral fantasies and the body. Letters to Mamma Lena (La Fiamma, Australia, 1956-1964).
- A. Strambi: The impact of Web-enhanced interaction and collaboration on the language learner. A longitudinal study of beginning learners of Italian at tertiary level.
- Multilingualism and identity among third generation Australian Italian youth
- Transnational identities and linguistic practices of recent Italian migrants
- WUN funded international project on “Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern & Southern Hemispheres” (Project Leader: Dr Kristine Horner, University of Sheffield, UK)
- ‘Helping first–year students flourish through languages’, (with Drs Antonella Strambi and Ann Luzeckyj, Flinders University). http://www.l2flourish.org/
- Multilingualism on ethnic media
- AILA Research Network on “Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development” (Network Leaders: Prof Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Dr Janica Nordstrom)
- Vice President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (2006-2010).
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (2006-2010).
- Editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (2004-2006); member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (2007-2015); member of the Editorial Board of Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata (SILTA), Pisa.
- Member of the Management Committee of ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies) (until 2015)
- Elected member of Comites (Comitati degli Italian all'estero) of New South Wales (2018-2020)
- In November 2024 she was the recipient of the NSW Co.As.It. Medal for her contribution to Italian language and culture.
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Motivational Dispositions and Emotional Experiences of Chinese as a Second Language Learners | Junzhe LI |
| Indonesian Discourse Markers (DMs): The Case of Indonesian Community in Sydney, Australia. | Syarif Hidayat NASIR |
| Javanese Languaging on Screen: The Role of Digital Media and Entertainment Industry in Language Ecology | Muhammad ROZIN |
| Rapport Management in Australian Multicultural Workplaces: The Case of Indonesian Workers in Sydney | Fitri Amalia SHINTASIWI |
Selected publications
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families: Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Publications
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Books
- Rubino, A. (2014). Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families: Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Bettoni, C., Rubino, A. (1996). Emigrazione e comportamento linguistico: un'indagine sul trilinguismo dei siciliani e dei veneti in Australia. Galatina: Congedo Editore.
Edited Books
- Rubino, A., Tamponi, A., Hajek, J. (2021). L'italiano in Australia. Prospettive e tendenze nell'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura/Italian in Australia. Perspectives and trends in the teaching of language and culture. Florence: Cesati.
Book Chapters
- Rubino, A. (2021). "It was tutto casino, I'm telling you": il language mixing tra I giovani italo-australiani. In Daniela D'Eugenio, Alberto Gelmi, Dario Marcucci (Eds.), Italia, Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann W. Haller, (pp. 141-154). Milan/Udine: Mimesis Edizioni.
- Rubino, A. (2021). L'italiano in musica e la musica nella diffusione della lingua italiana in Australia. (Italian in music and music in the spreading of the Italian language in Australia). In Antonia Rubino, Annarita Tamponi, John Hajek (Eds.), L'italiano in Australia. Prospettive e tendenze nell'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura/Italian in Australia. Perspectives and trends in the teaching of language and culture, (pp. 203-217). Florence: Cesati.
- Rubino, A., Tamponi, A., Hajek, J. (2021). Prospettiva generale: l'insegnamento dell'italiano in Australia (General perspective: the teaching of Italian in Australia). In Antonia Rubino, Annarita Tamponi, John Hajek (Eds.), L'italiano in Australia. Prospettive e tendenze nell'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura/Italian in Australia. Perspectives and trends in the teaching of language and culture, (pp. 11-21). Florence: Cesati.
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Journals
- Rubino, A. (2024). Book review: Daniela D'Eugenio and e Alberto Gelmi (a cura di), Rappresentare per includere. Forum Italicum, 58(2), 442-445. [More Information]
- Rubino, A., Hajek, J. (2024). The Impact of Policy Settings on Language Education in Australian Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Language Enrolments and Attrition in New South Wales and Victoria. Current Issues in Language Planning, 25(3), 306-329. [More Information]
- Strambi, A., Gadd, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A., Martínez, J. (2023). Flourishing in Spanish A pilot implementation of a wellbeing-supportive approach to L2 teaching and learning. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. [More Information]
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Edited Journals
- Rubino, A., Strambi, A., Tudini, V. (2017). Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40(2).
- Rubino, A. (2007). Lingua, identità e comunicazione in contesti anglofoni e italiani. Studi Italiani Di Linguistica Teorica E Applicata, 3.
- Rubino, A. (2004). Using and Learning Italian in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S, 18(1). [More Information]
Conferences
- Diaz-Martinez, J., Gadd, A., Strambi, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A. (2018). Flourishing in Spanish: Promoting students' wellbeing in second language Spanish class. 10th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain: International Academy of Technology, Education and Development. [More Information]
- Rubino, A. (2014). L'italiano in Australia tra lingua immigrata e lingua seconda. XIII Congresso Internazionale di Studi dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Bologna: Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata.
- Rubino, A. (2006). From the Image of Language to Language Politics: Italian in Australia. The 31st Annual Conference American Italian Historical Association, Illinois, USA: The American Italian Historical Association.
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2024
- Rubino, A. (2024). Book review: Daniela D'Eugenio and e Alberto Gelmi (a cura di), Rappresentare per includere. Forum Italicum, 58(2), 442-445. [More Information]
- Rubino, A., Hajek, J. (2024). The Impact of Policy Settings on Language Education in Australian Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Language Enrolments and Attrition in New South Wales and Victoria. Current Issues in Language Planning, 25(3), 306-329. [More Information]
2023
- Strambi, A., Gadd, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A., Martínez, J. (2023). Flourishing in Spanish A pilot implementation of a wellbeing-supportive approach to L2 teaching and learning. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. [More Information]
2022
- Rubino, A. (2022). Family language policy and dialect-Italian dynamics: across the waves of Italo-Australian migrant families. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage communication, 41(5), 571-589. [More Information]
2021
- Rubino, A. (2021). "It was tutto casino, I'm telling you": il language mixing tra I giovani italo-australiani. In Daniela D'Eugenio, Alberto Gelmi, Dario Marcucci (Eds.), Italia, Italie. Studi in onore di Hermann W. Haller, (pp. 141-154). Milan/Udine: Mimesis Edizioni.
- Rubino, A., Tamponi, A., Hajek, J. (2021). L'italiano in Australia. Prospettive e tendenze nell'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura/Italian in Australia. Perspectives and trends in the teaching of language and culture. Florence: Cesati.
- Rubino, A. (2021). L'italiano in musica e la musica nella diffusione della lingua italiana in Australia. (Italian in music and music in the spreading of the Italian language in Australia). In Antonia Rubino, Annarita Tamponi, John Hajek (Eds.), L'italiano in Australia. Prospettive e tendenze nell'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura/Italian in Australia. Perspectives and trends in the teaching of language and culture, (pp. 203-217). Florence: Cesati.
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2020
- Rubino, A. (2020). Authenticity, Agency and Mobility in the Discourse of Italian Migrants in Australia. In Not known (Eds.), Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging, (pp. 95-120). TBC. [More Information]
- Rubino, A. (2020). La lingua italiana in Australia. In Valeria Noli (Eds.), L'italofonia nelle reti: Le reti, la Rete, il "mondo italiano", (pp. 291-303). Roma: Societa Dante Alighieri.
2019
- Rubino, A., Beconi, A. (2019). Connecting language students with the work environment: 'Made in Italy: Italian at work'. Babel, 53(3), 15-21. [More Information]
- Rubino, A. (2019). Multilingualism in the Sydney Landscape: The Italian impact. In Alice Chik, Phil Benson, Robyn Moloney (Eds.), Multilingual Sydney, (pp. 180-192). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
2018
- Diaz-Martinez, J., Gadd, A., Strambi, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A. (2018). Flourishing in Spanish: Promoting students' wellbeing in second language Spanish class. 10th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain: International Academy of Technology, Education and Development. [More Information]
2017
- Strambi, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A. (2017). Flourishing in a Second Language (FL2) Integrating Positive Psychology, Transition Pedagogy and CLIL principles. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 121-139.
- Strambi, A., Luzeckyj, A., Rubino, A. (2017). Flourishing in a second language (FL2): Integrating positive psychology, Transition pedagogy and CLIL principles. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 121-139.
- Rubino, A., Strambi, A., Tudini, V. (2017). Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40(2).
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2016
- Rubino, A. (2016). Constructing pseudo-intimacy in an Italo-Australian phone-in radio program. Journal of Pragmatics, 103, 33-48. [More Information]
- Rubino, A., Cruickshank, K. (2016). Exploring language choice and identity construction in 'in-between' sites: Ethnic media and community languages schools in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 39(3), 255-271. [More Information]
- Rubino, A. (2016). Review of A. Phipps & R. Kay (eds.), Languages in Migratory Settings: Place, Politics and Aesthetics. Journal of Linguistics, 52(2), 471-475. [More Information]
2015
- Rubino, A. (2015). Performing identities in intergenerational conflict talk: A study of a Sicilian-Australian family. In Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ahmar Mahboob, Ken Cruickshank (Eds.), Language and Identity Across Modes of Communication, (pp. 125-151). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [More Information]
- Piazza, R., Rubino, A. (2015). Racial Laws Turned Our Lives Positively: Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses. In Not known (Eds.), Marked Identities: Narrating Lives Between Social Labels and Individual Biographies, (pp. 98-122). TBC. [More Information]
2014
- Rubino, A. (2014). I Nuovi Italiani All Estero e la 'Vecchia' Migrazione: Incontro o Scontro Identitario? (The new Italians abroad and the 'old' migration: encounter or identity conflict?). In Raffaella Bombi, Vincenzo Orioles (Eds.), Essere Italiani Nel Mondo Globale Oggi, (pp. 125-140). Udine: Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese.
- Rubino, A. (2014). Insegnare l'italiano in Australia (Sidney). In Adriana Arcuri, Egle Mocciaro (Eds.), Verso una didattica linguistica riflessiva: Percorsi di formazione iniziale per insegnanti di italiano lingua non materna, (pp. 478-482). Palermo: Universita degli Studi di Palermo.
- Rubino, A. (2014). L'italiano in Australia tra lingua immigrata e lingua seconda. XIII Congresso Internazionale di Studi dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Bologna: Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata.
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2013
- Rubino, A. (2013). Dialect between old and new Italian migration in Australia (Il dialetto tra la vecchia e la nuova emigrazione italiana in Australia). In Giovanni Ruffino (Eds.), Language And Culture In Sicily (Lingue E Culture In Sicilia), (pp. 1256-1271). Palermo, Sicily: Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani.
2012
- Rubino, A. (2012). Negotiating Repairs in an Italo-Australian Phone-In Radio Program. Studi Italiani Di Linguistica Teorica E Applicata, XLI(2), 293-316.
2011
- Rubino, A. (2011). Changes in the speech act of complaint in a migration context: Italo-Australians vs Italians and Anglo-Australians. Italica, 88(1), 115-139.
- Rubino, A. (2011). Italiano e dialetti italiani fuori d'Italia (reviews). Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia: scuola societa territorio, (35), 497-531.
- Rubino, A. (2011). Shifting Representations of Italian in Australia. In David Moss and Gino Moliterno (Eds.), Italy under the Southern Cross: an Australasian celebration of Dino de Poli and the Cassamarca Foundation, (pp. 156-172). Australia: Australasian Centre for Italian Studies.
2010
- Bettoni, C., Rubino, A. (2010). Liitaliano dell'emigrazione: temi, approcci teorici e metodologie d'indagine. Studi Italiani Di Linguistica Teorica E Applicata, 39(3), 457-489.
- Rubino, A. (2010). Multilingualism in Australia: reflections on current and future research trends. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 33(2), 17.1-17.21. [More Information]
- Rubino, A. (2010). Review of B. E. Lambert's "Family language transmission: actors, issues, outcomes". Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 33(2), 22.1-22.4.
2009
- Rubino, A. (2009). Language maintenance strategies and language attitudes of new migrants from Italy. In Ahmar Mahboob, Caroline Lipovsky (Eds.), Studies in applied linguistics and language learning, (pp. 203-223). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2007
- Rubino, A. (2007). Bilingual Instruction and Revitalization of Italian: The Case of the Italian Bilingual School in Sydney. In Matteo Santipolo (Eds.), Rivista Itals: Anno V, N. 14/2007 Didattica e linguistica dell'italiano come lingua straniera (Year V, No. 14/2007 Curriculum and language as a foreign language), (pp. 29-48). Perugia, Italy: Guerra Edizioni.
- Rubino, A. (2007). Bilingual Instruction and Revitalization of Italian: The Case of the Italian Bilingual School in Sydney. In Matteo Santipolo (Eds.), Rivista Itals: Anno V, N. 14/2007 Didattica e linguistica dell'italiano come lingua straniera (Year V, No. 14/2007 Curriculum and language as a foreign language), (pp. 29-48). Perugia, Italy: Guerra Edizioni.
- Rubino, A. (2007). Immigrant minorities: Australia. In Hellinger, Marlis and Pauwels, Anne (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change, (pp. 87-122). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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2006
- Rubino, A. (2006). From the Image of Language to Language Politics: Italian in Australia. The 31st Annual Conference American Italian Historical Association, Illinois, USA: The American Italian Historical Association.
- Rubino, A., Bettoni, C. (2006). Handling Complaints Cross-Culturally: Italians vs Anglo-Australians. Studi Italiani Di Linguistica Teorica E Applicata, 35(2), 339-358.
- Rubino, A. (2006). Linguistic practices and language attitudes of second-generation Italo-Australians. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2006 (180), 71-88. [More Information]
2004
- Rubino, A. (2004). Teaching Mixed-Ability Groups At Tertiary Level: The Case Of Italian. Flinders University Languages Group Online Review, 2(1), 22-42.
- Rubino, A. (2004). Trilingual Women As Language Mediators In The Family. A Sicilian-Australian Case-Study. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S(18), 25-49.
- Rubino, A. (2004). Using and Learning Italian in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S, 18(1). [More Information]
2003
- Rubino, A. (2003). Prospettive di mantenimento linguisticl: fase di vita e di comunità come fattori di variabilita tra gli italiani in Australia. Atti del XXXVI congresso Internazionale di Studi Della Societa di Linguistica Italiana(SLI), Rome: Coin/Acoft.
- Rubino, A. (2003). Trilinguismo e monolinguismo tra gli itali-australia-ni: due famiglie a confronto -Trilingualism and monolingualism among Italio-Australians: the case of two families. In De Fina, Bizzoni (Eds.), Italiano E Italiani Fuori DItalia: Italian and Italians outside Italy, (pp. 145-176). Perugia: Guerra Edizioni.
2002
- Rubino, A. (2002). Due famiglie fra tre lingue. Italiano and oltre, 17, 47-52.
- Rubino, A. (2002). Italian in Australia: past and new trends. Innovations in Italian Teaching Workshop, Brisbane: Griffith University.
2001
- Rubino, A. (2001). Cosa Succede all'italiano in Australia? Italiano e Scuola, 6, 5-8.
1996
- Bettoni, C., Rubino, A. (1996). Emigrazione e comportamento linguistico: un'indagine sul trilinguismo dei siciliani e dei veneti in Australia. Galatina: Congedo Editore.
Selected Grants
2016
- Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate), Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A, DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant
2009
- The Language and Identity Research Group , Rubino A, Bednarek M, Cruickshank K, Djenar D, Jarkey N, Lipovsky C, Mahboob A, Paltridge B, Tsung L, Wang W, Yilmaz D, Zhang Z, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme
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Faculty grants
2015
- Multilingualism, mobility and identity among second and third generation Italo-Australian youth; Rubino, A. (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Support Scheme)
- Helping first-year students flourish through languages: Integrating Positive Psychology, Transition pedagogy and CLIL principles. Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). Project leaders: Drs Antonella Strambi and Ann Luzeckyj (Flinders University). Team member: Antonia Rubino.
2017-2018
- Socially Embedded Diabetes Management among CALD Groups in Western Sydney; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Compact Funding, The University of Sydney. Project leaders: Vek Lewis, Novi Djenar, Antonia Rubino; Team members: A. Alhadesh, N. Basheer, D. Pitaloka, I. Shidong An, W. Wang.
2017-2020
- Sydney Institute of Community Languages Education (SICLE); funded by the NSW Department of Education; Project leader: Ken Cruickshank; Team members: Nesrine Basheer, Novi Djenar, Nerida Jarkey, Antonia Rubino, Linda Tsung.
In the media
Podcast, Sydney Centre for Language Research
Selected interviews on SBS Italian Radio
- Esperienze di bilinguismo e strategie per la sostenibilità dell'italiano in Australia
- Lo studio dell'italiano ha un futuro in Australia?
- Italian language test: how hard will be to become citizens?
ABC - Tongue Tied and Fluent “Talking through the generations”