Upcoming Talks

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Keynote/Plenary Talks

Gironzetti, E. 2022. Closing Round Table. El valor del español como lengua de herencia: de la teoría a la práctica. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, April 22.

Gironzetti, E. 2021. “Multimodalidad y multiliteracidades para una reconceptualización de la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia.” El español como lengua de herencia: retos educativos y perspectivas internacionales, Göttingen, Germany, 24th-25th June.

Gironzetti, E. 2020. “Español L2 con humor: interculturalidad, reflexión crítica y competencia discursiva”. VI Congreso Internacional del Español en Castilla y León “Español para todos”, online, 5th-6th November.

Gironzetti, E. 2018. “Perfiles lingüísticos en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de ELE/EL2.” 29th ASELE International Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5th – 8th September.

Gironzetti, E. 2016. “Expressive and Communicative Smiling in Conversation.” 28th International Humor Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 27th – July 1st.

Invited Talks 

Gironzetti, E. 2022. “Corpus multimodales para la investigación y la enseñanza del español.” Invited Speaker Series of the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura (ILCE), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, May 13^th.

Gironzetti, E. 2020. “Corpus del español”. Graduate seminar SPA543, Spanish Sociolinguistics for Teaching, Texas A&M University-Commerce (online), October 22.

Muñoz-Basols, J., Gironzetti, E., and Lacorte, M. 2020. “The Future and the Present of Spanish Language Teaching,” Book launch and discussion. Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain, Washington DC, February 21st.

Muñoz-Basols, J. and Gironzetti, E. 2019. “The Future of Spanish Language Teaching,” Book launch and discussion. Instituto Cervantes, London (UK), March 29th.

Gironzetti, E. 2019. “Humor a lezione: testo o pretesto.” Webinar Casa delle Lingue Edizioni, January 15th.

Gironzetti, E. 2018. “Investigación pedagógica para el español como lengua de herencia. Where we are now.” Graduate seminar SPN 6735, Spanish as a Heritage Language, University of Florida, November 29th.

Gironzetti, E. 2018. “Smiling and the Negotiation of Humor in Conversation.” 10th Annual Winter Storm, Language Science Center, University of Maryland, 8th – 19th January.

Gironzetti, E. 2018. “Eye-movements and Smiling across Humor Types.” Graduate seminar SLAA649R, University of Maryland, College Park, October 19th.

Gironzetti, E.  2017. “Teaching L2 Pragmatics.” Graduate seminar ENG 670, Pragmatics and Language Teaching, Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 27th, 2017.

Gironzetti, E.  2016. “Relevance Theory.” Graduate seminar ENG 555, General Linguistics, Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 19th, 2016.

Refereed Presentations

Dechter, L. and Gironzetti, E. 2022. “The Pragmatics of Inclusion: Improving US Latinos’ Access to Mental Health Services.” X International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS X), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain). 23th-25th May.

Gironzetti, E. and Belpoliti, F. 2021. “Multimodal pragmatic analysis of Spanish as a heritage language across genres and modes.” 2021 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Virtual, March 20th – 23th.

Belpoliti, F. & Gironzetti, E. 2020. “Multiliteracies and Multimodality in the SHL Classroom”. 7th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Albuquerque, NM, 27th – 29th February.

Gironzetti, E. and Lacorte, M. 2019. “Best Practices for Online/Hybrid Second Language Teaching.” ACTFL 2019, Washington DC, November 22nd-24th.

Gironzetti, E. and Belpoliti, F. 2019. “Teachers’ Voices on Spanish Heritage Language in the US.” 101st Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. San Diego, CA, July 8th – 11th.

Gironzetti, E. 2019. “Spanish Language Teaching (SLT): metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2.” 101st Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. San Diego, CA, July 8th – 11th.

Gironzetti, E. 2019. “Enseñanza de EL2 en línea: buenas prácticas para favorecer la participación y la retención de estudiantes.” 30th ASELE International Conference, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal, 4th-7th September. 

Gironzetti, E. and Belpoliti, F. 2019. “Instructional Challenges, Needs, and Professional Development Opportunities of Spanish Heritage Learner Instructors in the US.” 11th International Language Teacher Education Conference: Society, Identity, and Transformation in Language Teacher Education. Minneapolis, MN, May 30th – June 1st. 

Gironzetti, E., Lacorte, M., and Canabal-Torres, E. 2018. “La enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia (ELH) en Greater Washington.” Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE) II International Conference, El español, lengua, cultura y poder de Estados Unidos hispánico, Washington, D.C., 5th-7th October. 

Gironzetti, E. and Belpoliti, F. 2018.  “Perfiles docentes de instructores de español como lengua de herencia en los Estados Unidos.” 100th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Salamanca, Spain, June 25th – 28th.

Gironzetti, E. 2018. “The Effects of Conversational Role in Smiling and Eye-movements in Humorous Discourse.” 2018 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Chicago, Illinois, March 24th – 27th.

Gironzetti, E., Attardo, S., and Pickering, L. “Differences in Humor and Irony Marking in Conversation.” 2018 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT): Approaches to Discourse. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 9th – 11th.

Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Eye-movements and Smiling: Is All Humor the same?” 29th Annual Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. University of Québec at Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada, July 10th – 14th.

Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Developing Spanish L2 Pragmatic Competence through Humor.” 99th Annual Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Chicago, Illinois, July 6th – 9th.

Belpoliti F. and Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Strategy Based Instruction and Heritage Language Learning: Empowering learners beyond the classroom.” 99th Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Chicago, Illinois, July 6th – 9th, 2017.

Gironzetti, E. and Belpoliti, F. 2017. “Tendencias pedagógicas para el español como lengua de herencia: pasado, presente y futuro.” 26th Conference on Spanish in the United States & 11th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 6th – 8th.

Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Framed and Misaligned Smiling in Face-to-face Conversations.” 7th Humor Research Conference. Texas A&M University-Commerce at the Universities Center in Dallas, March 9th – 11th.

Belpoliti, F. and Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Pos me gustaría escribir a nivel avanzado. Advancing SHL Writing Through Strategy Instruction.” 4th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. University of California, Irvine, California, February 16th – 18th, 2017.

Gironzetti, E., Attardo, S., and Pickering, L. 2016. “The Interaction of Gaze, Humor, and Smiling in Dyadic Face–to–face Conversations.” 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture – Creativity – Multimodality. Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, July 18th – 22nd.

Gironzetti, E., Attardo, S., and Pickering, L. 2016. “Negotiating Humorous Intentions in Conversation.” 28th International Humor Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 27th – July 1st.

Gironzetti, E. 2016. “The Interaction of Smiling Patterns and Eye Fixations during Conversation.” 6th Humor Research Conference: Empirical Approaches to Humor. Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas, February 19th – 21st.

Belpoliti, F. and Gironzetti, E. 2016. “Metaknowledge and Metalinguistic Strategies in the Spanish for Heritage Learners Classroom: A Curriculum Redesign.” III Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. University of Oregon, February 18th – 20th.

Belpoliti, F. and Gironzetti, E. 2015. “Metaknowledge and Heritage Language Learning: Gaining Self‐regulatory Strategies in the Spanish for Heritage Learners Classroom.” Second Language Research Forum. Georgia State University, Atlanta, October 29th – 31st. 

Gironzetti, E. 2015. “Smiling Synchronicity During Dyadic Humorous Conversations.” 27th International Humor Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Holy Names University, Oakland (CA), June 29th – July 3rd.

Attardo, S., Pickering, L., Gironzetti, E., Huang, M., Menjo, S., Zhang, Y. 2015. “Multimodal Analysis of Humor in Conversation.” 27th International Humor Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies. Holy Names University, Oakland (CA), June 29th – July 3rd.

Gironzetti, E., Huang, M., Pickering, L., and Attardo, S. 2015. “The Role of Eye Gaze and Smiling in Humorous Dyadic Conversations.” 2015 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Toronto, Canada, 21st – 24th March.

Gironzetti, E. 2015. “Smiling as a Marker of Humor.” 5th Humor Research Conference: Humor and Pedagogy. Texas A&M University-Commerce at University Centers at downtown Dallas, Texas, February 20th – 21st.

Gironzetti, E. and Menjo, S. 2014. “Smiling as a Discourse Marker of Humor.” 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. University of California, Los Angeles, October 17th – 19th.

Gironzetti, E. 2014. “Synchronicity of Smile and Gaze Patterns in Conversation.” South Central Modern Language Association, SCMLA 71st Annual Conference. University of Texas at Austin, Texas, October 18th – 22nd.

Hempelmann, C. F. and Gironzetti, E. 2014. “The Interlingual Lexical Field of Smiling and Laughing in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.” 4th Humor Research Conference: Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Humor. Texas A&M University-Commerce at Rockwall, February 21st – 23rd.

Padilla García, X. and Gironzetti, E. 2011. “Joke or lie? A Neo-Gricean Proposal Applied to the Analysis of Graphic Jokes”. Colloquium on “Irony and Humour”, 12th International Pragmatics Association Conference. University of Manchester, July 3rd – 8th.

Padilla García, X. and Gironzetti, E. 2011. “Is It Possible to Translate Graphic Jokes? How a Pragmatic Analysis of Humour Can Contribute to Literary Translation”. XIV Forum for Iberian Studies: The Limits of Literary Translation. Exeter College and The Taylor Institution, Oxford, June 24th – 25th.    

Padilla García, X. and Gironzetti, E. 2009. “Humour and Irony in Graphic Jokes: A Pragmatic and Intercultural Study of Spanish and Italian”. Symposium on Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication in Spanish. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, June 25th – 26th.

Gironzetti, E. and Pastor Sánchez, A. 2008. “¿Te vas de casa o de caza? Una propuesta para la enseñanza del sonido /Ɵ/ a alumnos italianos de E/LE [¿Te vas de casa o de caza? A Proposal to Teach the Sound /Ɵ/ to Italian Learners of Spanish].” II International Congress of Spanish Language, Literature and Culture. University of Virginia and Catholic University of Valencia, May 2008.

Refereed Panels

Gironzetti, E. 2017. “Metodología, recursos y contextos para la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia en los Estados Unidos.” 26th Conference on Spanish in the United States & 11th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 6th – 8th.

Refereed Poster Presentations

Gironzetti E. 2015. “Teaching with Cartoons: Humor as the Goal and the Instrument in the FL/L2 Classroom.” 5th North East Texas Humor Research Conference. Texas A&M University-Commerce at Universities Center in downtown Dallas, Texas, February 20th – 22nd, 2015.

Gironzetti E. 2014. “Smile Synchronicity and Patterns in Dyadic Conversations”. Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use. University of Connecticut at Storrs, June 12th – 14th, 2014.

Gironzetti E. 2013. “Understanding Humor. A Pragmatic Analysis of a Corpus of Cartoons.” 3rd North East Texas Humor Research Conference. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, February 22nd – 24th, 2013.

Gironzetti E. 2009. “Tú es que tienes la mirada sucia. Análisis pragmático del humor y la ironía en Italia y España [Pragmatic Analysis of Humor and Irony in Italy and Spain].” XXIV International Meeting of the Association of Young Linguists. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May 9th, 2009.