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1 E U R O P E A N C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E F O R M A T PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Address F. MURATORI SQUARE, LECCE, ITALY. Fax bianca.sisinni@unisalento.it Nationality Italian Date of birth WORK EXPERIENCE Dates (from to) 01/11/ Name and address of employer University of Salento Occupation or position held Research fellowship Main activities and responsibilities Second Language Acquisition, Audiovisual speech perception (behavioral, neurophysiological and Eye Tracker techniques). Dates (from to) JUNE 2009 Name and address of employer I.P.S.S.S. Morvillo-Falcone Brindisi (Italy) Occupation or position held External English Teacher Main activities and responsibilities English courses (18 hours) Dates (from to) APRIL 2009 MAY 2009 Name and address of employer I.P.S.S.S. Morvillo-Falcone Brindisi (Italy) Occupation or position held External French Teacher Main activities and responsibilities French courses (15 hours) Dates (from to) MARCH 2009 JUNE 2009 Name and address of employer I.I.S.S. E. Lanoce - Maglie (Le) (Italy) Occupation or position held External English Teacher Main activities and responsibilities English courses (18 hours) EDUCATION AND TRAINING Dates (from to) February 2013 July 2013 Name and type of organisation Tirocinio Formativo Attivo Classi di concorso A345-A346 Principal subjects/occupational English language and culture Title of qualification awarded Teaching qualification: English language in scuola secondaria di primo grado ; Teaching qualification: English language and culture in scuola secondaria di secondo grado ; Page 1 - Curriculum vitae of

2 Votazione 97/100 Dates (from to) January 2006 January 2009 Name and type of organisation Università del Salento CRIL (Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio) Principal subjects/occupational Second Language Acquisition, non-native speech perception and production. Title of qualification awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) Dates (from to) November 1999 July 2005 Name and type of organisation Principal subjects/occupational Title of qualification awarded Università del Salento Foreign Languages and Literatures English and French Master degree Dates (from to) Name and type of organisation Liceo Scientifico Giulietta Banzi Bazoli Lecce (Italy) Title of qualification awarded Diploma Dates (from to) Name and type of organisation Istituto Professionale Gabriele D Annunzio Brindisi (Italy) Principal subjects/occupational Information Technology course PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Acquired in the course of life and career but not necessarily covered by formal certificates and diplomas. MOTHER TONGUE ITALIAN OTHER LANGUAGES Reading skills Writing skills Verbal skills Reading skills Writing skills Verbal skills English French Page 2 - Curriculum vitae of

3 TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc. GOOD SKILLS WITH: MICROSOFT OFFICE (WORD, POWER POINT, EXCEL); PRAAT SOFTWARE (ACOUSTICAL ANALYSIS, BEHAVIORAL TEST); SPSS SOFTWARE FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTAT FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BRAIN VISION RECORDER AND ANALYSER (EEG AND ERPS); EYE TRACKER ASL MODEL R6; GAZE TRACKER SOFTWARE; DIDACTICS SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Course in Phonetcs of American English (as teacher) within the General Linguistics course at the Salento University, faculty of Foreign Language and Literature, academic year 2007/2008, Prof. Mirko Grimaldi as supervisor. L2 phonetic-phonological system acquistion. Theories and experimental protocols/acquisizione del sistema fonetico-fonologico di L2. Teorie e protocolli sperimentali/ Seminar in 19/05/2008 within the Psycholinguistics course at the Salento University (Prof. Mirko Grimaldi). Course in ERPs methodology (18 hours) within the Psycolongustics course at the Salento University, faculty of Psychology, academic year , Prof. Mirko Grimaldi as supervisor. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For my Ph.D. and my research fellowship, please contact Mriko Grimaldi, PhD * Associate Professor of Linguistics - University of Salento Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio < (CRIL) Via Pappacoda, 12; floor V, LECCE (Italy) Phone: Fax: ANNEXES LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, CONGRESSES, WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS Page 3 - Curriculum vitae of

4 PUBLICATIONS Papers in scientific journals peer-reviewed (in press), Escudero, P., Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., The effect of vowel inventory and acoustic properties in Salento Italian learners of Southern British English vowels, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. (under revision) Grimaldi M., Sisinni B., Invitto S., Resta D., Gili Fivela B., Alku P., Brattico E., Sound similarity/dissimilarity governs classroom learning of second language phonemes in adulthood Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Congress and workshops peer-reviewed 2009, Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Second language discrimination vowel contrasts by adults speakers with a five vowel system, Proceedings of the 10 th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, Brighton, Uk, 6-10 September, pp ISSN: , Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Percezione e produzione dei fonemi dell Inglese Americano in parlanti adulti con un sistema pentavolcalico, V AISV National Congress La dimensione temporale del parlato, Zurich University, 4-6 February 2009, pp ISBN: , Grimaldi M., Calabrese A., Sigona F., Garrapa L., Sisinni B. Articulatory Grounding of Southern Salentino Harmony Processes in 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Interspeech, Spoken Language Processing for All, Japan, Makurai, Sepetember 2010, pp ISSN: , Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Metodologie negli studi cross-linguistici. Riflessione fra dati acustici e percettivi, VI AISV National Congress Parlare con le persone, parlare alle macchine/talking to people, talking to machines, Napoli University, 3-5 February 2010, pp ISBN: , Grimaldi, M., Calabrese, A., Sigona, F., Garrapa, L., Sisinni, B., La variazione micro-parametrica nei processi di armonizzazione del Salento meridionale. Studio articolatorio tramite Articulografo Elettromagnetico 3D ed Ultrasuoni, VI AISV National Congress Parlare con le persone, parlare alla macchine/talking to people, talking to machines, Napoli University, 3-5 February 2010, pp ISBN: , Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Validating a second language perception model for classroom context. A longitudinal study within the Perceptual Assimilation Model, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, Florence, Italy, August 2011, pp ISSN: , Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Speech perception and the McGurk effect. An electrophysiological study, VII AISV National Congress Contesto comunicativo e variabilità nella produzione e percezione della lingua, University of Salento, Lecce, January 2011, pp , ISBN: , Grimaldi, M., Sisinni, B., Brattico, E., Invitto, S., Alku, P., Resta, D., Gili Fivela, B., Correlati comportamentali e neurofisiologici nell acquisizione di contrasti fonologici della L2, XLII SLI Congress (Società di Linguistica Italiana) Linguaggio e cervello, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, September Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Gili Fivela, B., Sigona, F., Calabrese, A., Percezione e produzione di vocali non native da parte di parlanti adulti, VIII National Congress AISV (Associazione Italiana di Scienza della Voce), Multimodalità e Multilingualità. La sfida più avanzata della comunicazione orale, Università Ca Foscari, Venezia, Page 4 - Curriculum vitae of

5 21-23 January, 2013, Venice, Bulzoni Editore, Roma - Italia, pp ISBN: , Sisinni, B., Escudero, P., & Grimaldi M., Salento Italian listeners perception of American English vowels, Proceedings of the 14 th Interspeech 2013, Lyon, pp , ISCA, ISSN: X (in press), Sisinni, B., Escudero, P., Grimaldi, M., The perception of American English vowels by Salento Italian adult listeners: Applying L2 perception models to the classroom context, New Sounds Congress and workshops non peer-reviewed 2007, Sisinni, B., Il dialetto in rete via messenger, in G. Marcato(ed), Dialetto, Memoria e Fantasia, Proceedings of the International Congress of Sappada, Sappada / Plodn (Bl), Padova University Linguistic Department, 28 june 2 july 2006, pp ISBN ; ISSN , Sisinni, B., L2 acquisition in formal setting: an acoustic description of the interlenguage in an Italian group of undergraduate students, in Pamies, A., & Melguizo, E., (eds.), 2008, New Trends in Experimental Phonetics: selected papers from the IVth international Conference on Experimental Phonetics Granada, February 2008, pp ISSN: , Grimaldi, M. & Sisinni, B., Italiano e dialetto in rete (chat e instant messaging) nel Salento, Lingua e Linguaggio dei media Congress, Acaya Lecce, September 2008, Ed. M. Aprile, , ISBN: , Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Calabrese, A., Tundo, E., Visual attention during L1 and L2 sound perception: an eye tracking study, Proceedings of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Ed. A. Botinis, August 2010, Athens, Greece, , ISBN: (in press), De Giuseppe, V., D Errico, L., Sigona, F., Sisinni, B., Eyetracking e usabilità dei sistemi di firma digitale, Società Italiana di Ergonomia IX National Congress, October, 2010, Rome, Italy. Journal peer-reviewed (under revision), Sisinni, B., Escudero, P., Grimaldi, M., Learning to perceive Southern British English vowels: The initial state for Salento Italian learners. Forthcoming Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Perception and production of English vowels by adult Italian speakers during classroom learning of English. Grimaldi M., Sisinni B., Invitto S., Resta D., Gili Fivela B., Alku P., Brattico E., Sound similarity/dissimilarity governs classroom learning of second language phonemes in adulthood Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., The role of visual sensory memory during speech perception. An ERPs Study. Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Calabrese, A., Pellegrino, S., Measuring visual attention during audiovisual speech perception. Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., The improving of non-native perception in classroom context: a longitudinal study. Summer schools and workshops Page 5 - Curriculum vitae of

6 2006, 2nd AISV (Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce) Summer School "Dalla fonetica alla fonologia sperimentale: teoria e metodi di analisi", September 2006, Castello Orsini di Soriano nel Cimino, Viterbo, Italy. 2006, AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia) course Introduction to Event-related potentials in language research, Centro Residenziale Universitario, October, 2006, Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena, Italy. 2007, AIP (Associazione Italiana di Psicologia) course Tecniche di ricerca sperimentale in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Centro Residenziale Universitario, 4-6 April 2007, Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena, Italy. 2007, International Workshop Is a neural theory for language possible? Development of unified representations in natural and artificial systems, University of Salento, June, 2008, Lecce, Italy. 2010, Sisinni, B., Grimaldi, M., Calabrese, A., Manca, A., The McGurk in Italian listeners: an MMN study (poster), International Summer School on Multimodal Approach in Neuroscience, July 2010, Leipzig, Germany. Page 6 - Curriculum vitae of