About Dr Antonia Rubino
Dr Antonia Rubino’s research interests include: contact linguistics, multilingualism, cross cultural studies and second language teaching and learning, with specific focus on the Italo-Australian community and the changes occurring in the Italian language and dialects in the transition from the first to subsequent generations.
Dr Antonia Rubino has conducted research in language dynamics of the Italo-Australian community for the past twenty years and has published extensively in this area. She has presented seminars on her research at a number of Universities (Australia, Italy, USA).
She was the Editor of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics from 2004 to 2006, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia from 2006 to 2008.
She has co-authored a junior course of Italian in use in Australian secondary schools.
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Selected publications
- [Book] Lingua, identità e comunicazione in contesti anglofoni e italiani (ed) (Special issue of Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata). Pisa, 2007.
- [book] Using and learning Italian in Australia (ed) (Special issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, S18). Melbourne, 2004.
- [book] Emigrazione e comportamento linguistico. Un’indagine sul trilinguismo dei siciliani e dei veneti in Australia [with C. Bettoni]. Galatina, 1996.