Armony Larocca

Upon completion of this course, I will have learned practical intercultural skills and increased my understanding of intercultural competence.
Especially in the context of education, this will allow me to talk about and address intercultural opportunities and challenges, develop strategies in order to respond to diverse and hybrid identities in a fairer way, and promote social justice and respect for different languages, preventing conflicts and enhancing societal cohesion.

• Internationally recognised Level 5 TEFL Diploma (168 hours), attesting the foreign language and teaching skills required to take up positions in educational establishments or to work independently as a private tutor.
• Supplementary certificate in teaching English to young learners, focusing on the main aspects of the development of cognitive and learning skills of children, in order to be able to tailor lessons and courses to their needs and learning styles.

• Formally conferred July 2022.
• Degree classification: Distinction.
• Modules taken focused on the acquisition of skills required to undertake independent research, especially in the context of my thesis, as well as the extensive use of software pieces to conduct analyses in the fields of Phonetics and Phonology, Corpus Linguistics and Public and Professional Discourse.
• My thesis involved the creation of a corpus of public apology videos posted on YouTube by influencers and its macro- and micro-analysis respectively in terms of image-repair strategies and the lexical realisations of apologies.

• Degree classification: First Class Honours.
• Modules taken include: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Forensic Linguistics, and Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
• My final year project explored the linguistic priming of native speakers of English using atypical grammatical structures deriving from the interference with Italian, with the aim of investigating whether long-term priming effects deriving from cross-linguistic interference may be contemplated.

Contributions to long-term projects that aim to improve AI
through, respectively, the transcription of audio content and
search engine evaluation.

• Contributions to long-term projects that aim to improve AI through the transcription of audio content.
• Direct transcription of data and, subsequently, promotion to Quality Assurance agent, ensuring that the work completed by fellow agents followed the project guidelines, which were implemented further by myself whenever errors were detected.

• Collaboration with a member of staff on a project investigating the representation of disability in Australian media between 2000 and 2019.
• Compilation of a literature review, gathering of the data required for the creation of a specialised corpus on the subject matter, and preliminary analyses on a sample of the data.

• Planned English lessons using suitable learning resources for Erasmus students.
• Delivered said lessons on a one-to-one basis, with a focus on the monitoring of progress, performance, and growth.
• Provided students with timely and clear formative feedback, as well as materials to be implemented in their independent study.

• Assisted a member of staff in the development of experimental materials for a project on linguistic relativity.
• Compilation of a literature review, analysis of child language data, and use of software pieces such as ELAN and CLAN for transcription and analysis purposes.

• Representation of students on my programme and year of study.
• Raised student feedback on academic experience on a formal and informal basis in meetings with academic staff and directed students to appropriate sources of help when necessary.

• Provided product information and assistance to customers, operated the tills, including cashing up, and handled refunds, complaints, and associated paperwork.
• Assisted with deliveries and restocking, as well as ensuring that the store adhered to cleanliness and maintenance standards.