Mr Matthew Absalom - publications
Refereed Articles and Conference Proceedings
Absalom, M. & Rizzi, A. “Comparing the outcomes of online listening versus online text-based tasks in university level Italian L2 study.” ReCALL 20(1):55-66.
Rizzi, A. & Absalom, M. “Using online streamed audio and podcasting in L2 teaching and learning: how do they work and copyright implications.” The EuroCALL Review, 12, September 2007. Available at: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/news/newsletter/12/index.html
Absalom, M. & Vadura, K. “Student perceptions of internationalisation of the curriculum: an Australian case study.” Arts & Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006, 317-334.
Absalom, M. & Hajek, J. (2006) “Prosodic phonology and raddoppiamento sintattico: a re-evaluation.” In Keith Allen (ed.) Selected Papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. 1-14.
Absalom, M & Pais Marden, M “Caratteristiche Della Comunicazione E-Mail: Riflessioni Su Un Corso Universitario Australiano Di Italiano L2.”Rivista Italiana Di Linguistica Applicata, Vol. 34, No. 2-3, 2004, Pp. 83-94.
Absalom, M & Pais Marden, M. “Email Communication And Language Learning At University – An Australian Case Study.” Computer Assisted Language Learning, Vol. 17, No. 3-4, 2004, Pp. 403-440.
Absalom, M., Stevens, M. & Hajek, J. “Il Fenomeno Di Raddoppiamento Sintattico Nella Realtà Linguistica Italiana” In F. Albano Leoni Et. Al (Eds) Il Parlato Italiano. Atti Del Convegno Nazionale Di Napoli. Napoli: M. D’Auria Editore. CD-Rom Publication. 2004.
Absalom, M. “Editorial. Languages In Higher Education.” Arts And Humanities In Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004, Pp.123-124.
Absalom, M. & Hajek, J. “Prosodic Phonology And raddoppiamento sintattico – a re-evaluation”. ALS2005 proceedings, forthcoming.
Absalom, M. “Research in progress: Exploring conceptions of language with teachers of Chinese and Italian.” Language Teaching Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2003, p. 99.
Absalom, M., Stevens, M. & Hajek, J. “A typology of spreading, insertion and deletion or What you weren’t told about raddoppiamento sintattico”, in P. Collins & M. Amberber (eds) Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, 2002, pp. 1-12.
Absalom, M. & Pais Marden, M. “L’email per imparare l’italiano: aspetti linguistici e contenutistici della comunicazione telematica in italiano L2.” FULGOR, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. 23-45.
Absalom, M. “Making it meaningful: teaching Italian language and culture with the telegiornale” in C. Kennedy (ed.) Proceedings of the Griffith University Innovations in Italian Teaching conference, 2002, pp. 95-112.
Stevens, M., Hajek J. & Absalom, M. “Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in Italian: a first phonetic excursus.” Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, Melbourne, December 2 to 5, 2002.
Absalom, M., Collings, P. & Trevitt, C. “Developing a shared understanding of IT-supported learning environments.” OZCHI2001. CD-Rom publication. 7 pages.
Absalom, M. “Using assessment to encourage deep and active learning. Experiences from the teaching of Italian”, in G. Isaacs, Effective Teaching and Learning at University. University of Queensland. 2000. Available at: http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/conferences/teach_conference00/papers/absalom.html
Absalom, M. “Innovating assessment in an Italian language course: first experiences. Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. HERDSA. 1999. Available at: http://www.herdsa.org.au/branches/vic/Cornerstones/pdf/Absalom.PDF
Absalom, M. & Hajek, J. “Raddoppiamento sintattico: what happens when the theory is on too tight?”, in P.M. Bertinetto et al. (eds) Certamen Phonologicum III, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1997, pp. 159-179.
Absalom, M. “Assimilation or gemination? Notes on raddoppiamento sintattico.” Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 16, 1996, pp. 1-8
Absalom, M. “Raddoppiamento sintattico or syntactic doubling: a misnomer?” Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol.15, 1995, pp. 1-14.
Edited volumes
Absalom, M. Guest Editor. “Special Issue: Languages in Higher Education.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2004.
Absalom, M. & Kalman, J. Languages: An Interdisciplinary Forum. Melbourne. 1998
Book reviews
Absalom, M. “Review of Doris Borrelli. Raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian – a synchronic and diachronic cross-dialectal study (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics). Routledge: New York/London, 2002. Pp. x + 130. Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2004. 10 pages.
Absalom, M. “Review of Roberto di Napoli et al. (2001) Fuzzy Boundaries. CILT.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, Vol. 1, 2002, pp.111-120.
Absalom, M. “Review of Lori Repetti (2000) Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, John Benjamins.” Phonology, Vol.19, No. 1, 2002, pp.129-135
Absalom, M. “Review of Rodney Sampson (1999) Nasal vowel evolution in Romance, OUP.” Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 37, 2001, pp. 229-235.
Absalom, M. “Review of John Hajek (1997) Universals of sound change in nasalization, Blackwell.”Phonetica, Vol. 57, 2000, pp. 73-75.
Absalom, M. & Hajek J. “Review of Michele Loporcaro (1997), L’origine del raddoppiamento fonosintattico: saggio di fonologia diacronica romanza. Basel and Tübingen: Francke Verlag.” Phonology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1998, pp. 272-277.