… better late …

me … studying :)

Su Nacht. One my looks in SL

Hello

Here I am (eventually, I can feel Francoise thinking …) … I’m late in joining the group and I’m sorry about that, but I seem to be able to work on my research only in a discontinuous way, as work manages to eat up most of the time I want to dedicate to my studies

My name is Susanna Nocchi, I am Italian and I am a part-time PhD student at SALIS in DCU under the combined supervision of Dr. Francoise Blin and Dr. Vera Sheridan. I am now in the middle of my second year and I feel I’m going really slowly I wish I could take a year off my job (I’m a lecturer in Italian in DIT) to concentrate on my research and put some order into the huge amount of data that’s now on my computer and, in part, in my head as well , but, for the moment, I can’t see that happening …

My interest is in researching the affordances (yeap, me too Lingsong .. I think it might be interesting to share ideas …) that Virtual Worlds (I’m working with Second Life now) can provide for studying foreign languages and in particular for increasing Intercultural Competence in a foreign language. I spent all my first year reading (and I am still doing it everywhere I can, even on the bus … as it is not always easy to find the time for it) and during this second year I set up a pilot-study with some of my students in DIT. You can read more about the pilot-study in my blog, where I wrote my thoughts and comments during the time the course took place.

I plan on contributing to this research group as much as I can, but, please, be patient if I disappear from time to time …

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