Enza Tudini

APrf Enza Tudini

Senior Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Vincenza (Enza) Tudini is an applied linguist known internationally for her application of conversation analysis (CA) methodology to monolingual and multilingual digital interaction. This research reveals unique features of language and interaction in digital contexts, with three main research strands 1) online interaction for language learning; 2) children’s online language and interaction; and 3) the language of online grooming. She was invited to write four encyclopedia and reference work chapters on the application of CA to digital contexts. In addition to numerous articles in highly ranked journals, she has written two books on digital interaction,ie,
Children's online language and interaction (Cambridge University Press, 2025) 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/childrens-online-language-and-interaction/6D798F3ADE6E989565A887F3AC913B44 
Online Second Language Acquisition: Conversation Analysis of Online chat (Bloomsbury, 2010)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/online-second-language-acquisition-9780826442406/ 

Tudini, V. (2025). Children's online language and interaction. Cambridge University Press.

Year Citation
2023 Leonard, S. N., Repetto, M., Kennedy, J. P., Tudini, E., & Fowler, S. (2023). Designing maker initiatives for educational inclusion. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 33(3), 883-899.
DOI Scopus11 WoS9 Europe PMC1
2022 Heugh, K., French, M., Arya, V., Pham, M., Tudini, V., Billinghurst, N., . . . Viljoen, J. M. (2022). Multilingualism, translanguaging and transknowledging: Translation technology in EMI higher education. Aila Review, 35(1), 89-127.
DOI Scopus39 WoS21
2022 Dooly, M., & Tudini, V. (2022). 'We should google that': the dynamics of knowledge-in-interaction in an online student meeting. Classroom Discourse, 13(2), 188-211.
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2021 Tudini, V., & Dooly, M. (2021). Complaining for rapport building: troubles talk in a preservice language teacher online video exchange. Linguistics and Education, 64(100941), 1-14.
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2020 Strambi, A., & Tudini, V. (2020). 'I'll say something about myself': Questions and self-disclosures in Italian L1-L2 online initial interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 170, 82-95.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2018 Tudini, V. (2018). Interactivity in the teaching and learning of foreign languages: what it means for resourcing and delivery of online and blended programmes. The Language learning journal, 46(2), 132-145.
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2017 Tudini, V., & Strambi, A. (2017). "Siamo vicini, no?" Negotiating commonality for rapport building in Italian L1-L2 online text chat. Australian review of applied linguistics, 40(2), 194-211.
DOI Scopus5 WoS3
2017 Rubino, A., Strambi, A., & Tudini, V. (2017). Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology perspectives on the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 40(2), 105-107.
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2016 Tudini, V. (2016). Repair and codeswitching for learning in online intercultural talk. System, 62, 15-25.
DOI Scopus14 WoS11
2016 Dooly, M., & Tudini, V. (2016). 'Now we are teachers': the role of small talk in student language teachers' telecollaborative task development. Journal of pragmatics, 102, 38-53.
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2015 Tudini, V. A. (2015). Extending prior posts in dyadic online text chat. Discourse processes, 52(8), 642-669.
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2013 Tudini, V. (2013). Form-focused social repertoires in an online language learning partnership. Journal of Pragmatics, 50(1), 187-202.
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2011 Tudini, V. (2011). CULTURE AND LANGUAGE OF ITALY ON CD-ROM. AUSTRALIAN REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 34(3), 359-361.
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2009 Tudini, V. (2009). Bilingualism: An Advanced Resource Book (vol 12, pg 321, 2008). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM, 13(1), 146.
2008 Tudini, V. (2008). BILINGUALISM: AN ADVANCED RESOURCE BOOK. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM, 12(4), 321-323.
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2007 Tudini, V. A. (2007). Negotiation and intercultural learning in Italian native speaker chat rooms. Modern language journal, 91(4), 577-601.
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2004 Tudini, V. A. (2004). Virtual immersion: native speaker chats as a bridge to conversational Italian. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.
2003 Tudini, V. A. (2003). Using native speakers in chat. Language learning and technology, 7(3), 141-159.
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2003 Tudini, V. A. (2003). Conversational elements of online chatting : speaking practice for distance language learners. Apprectissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication, Vol. 6, n°2, 83-99.
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2003 Tudini, V. (2003). Éléments conversationnels du clavardage : un entraînement à l'expression orale pour les apprenants de langues à distance ?. Alsic, Vol. 6, n°2, 63-81.
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2000 Tudini, V. A. (2000). Focus on form through coded corrective feedback and learner self-correction of writing tasks. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata.
1991 TUDINI, V. A. C. (1991). SILONE,IGNAZIO MINOR WRITINGS. QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA, 12(1), 113-122.

Year Citation
2025 Tudini, V. (2025). Integrating naturalistic digital interaction in foreign language programs. In M. Gonzalez-Lloret (Ed.), Source details - Title: Pragmatics and Language Learning (Vol. 15, pp. 1-16). US: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai‘i.
2024 Tudini, V., & Liddicoat, A. J. (2024). Technology-mediated discourse and second language research. In B. Paltridge, & M. T. Prior (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse (pp. 297-310). US: Routledge.
DOI Scopus1
2022 Dooly, M., & Tudini, V. (2022). 'I remember when I was in Spain': student-teacher storytelling in online collaborative task accomplishment. In A. Filipi, B. T. Ta, & M. Theobald (Eds.), Source details - Title: Storytelling practices in educational contexts through the lens of conversation analysis (pp. 283-309). Singapore: Springer.
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2021 Tudini, V. (2021). Le sfide dell'insegnamento dell'italiano a distanza. In A. Rubino, A. R. Tamponi, & J. Hajek (Eds.), Source details - Title: L’italiano in Australia: prospettive e tendenze nell’insegnamento della lingua e cultura (pp. 1-25). Italy: Franco Cesati.
2016 Tudini, V. (2016). An overview of online intercultural exchange in the Australian context. In R. O'Dowd, & T. Lewis (Eds.), Source details - Title: Online intercultural exchange: policy pedagogy practice (pp. 111-129). US: Routledge.
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2016 Tudini, V., & Liddicoat, A. J. (2016). Computer-mediated communication and conversation analysis. In S. Thorne, & S. May (Eds.), Source details - Title: Language and technology (3 ed., pp. 1-12). New York: Springer International Publishing.
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2013 Liddicoat, A. J., & Tudini, V. (2013). Expert-novice orientations: native speaker power and the didactic voice in online intercultural interaction. In F. Sharifian, & M. Jamarani (Eds.), Source details - Title: Language and intercultural communication in the new era (1 ed., pp. 181-197). United States: Taylor and Francis.
DOI Scopus19
2005 Tudini, V. A. (2005). Chatlines for beginners: negotiating conversation at a distance. In Corporate body:University of South AustraliaSource details - Title: Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change (pp. 212-229). United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
DOI Scopus11
2003 Carroli, P., Pavone, A., & Tudini, V. A. (2003). Face value: teaching Italian verbal and social-cultural interation. In Source details - Title: Teaching invisible culture: classroom practice and theory (pp. 177-210). Australia: Language Australia.

Courses I teach

  • LANG 3012 Italian 3A (2025)
  • LANG 3013 Italian 3B (2025)
  • LANG 3034 Advanced Languages Studies: Translation and Research (2025)
  • LANG 1028 Italian 2B (2024)
  • LANG 1029 Italian 2A (2024)
  • LANG 3036 European Languages In-Country (2024)

Programs I'm associated with

  • MDLA - Diploma in Languages

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