STAFF PROFILE
Dr Anamaria Ducasse
Dr Anamaria Ducasse is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Studies in RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
Research
Funded research projects
2014-2017: EMO-FUNDETT funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (FFI2013-47792-C2-1-P). Projects: EMO-FUNDETT EMOTION and EMO-FUNDETT PERSUASION
2011: Comparing TOEFLiBT™ speaking tasks with real world academic speaking tasks: Tasks performance features and assessment. Educational Testing Service Board of Examiners grant with Dr Annie Brown Australian Council of Educational Research (grant completed 2016)
2009: Completed: IDP Australia grant principal investigator, collaborating with Dr Annie Brown. ‘The role of interactive communication in IELTS speaking and its impact on candidates’ preparedness for study or training contexts’. IELTS (grant completed 2011)
2008: Completed: Distributive Leadership Project (DLP): Faculty Scholar 'Toeing the line (poster) on graduate attributes'. A project that targets the improvement of assessment by stimulating reflection, by domain experts, and results in action across a faculty. Completed by organizing “The Culture of Assessment in Higher Education” roundtable in Sydney
External grants
2011: International Language Testing Association (ILTA) $3000 with Javier Menéndez and Juan Robisco: from Instituto Cervantes Manila: Testing Spanish as a foreign language in secondary schools in the Philippines.
2009: Spanish cultural cooperation grant $5000 Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture with Dr Lilit Thwaites.
Travel grants
2014 EALTA Copenhagen
2013 Travel grant Manila
2011 Outside Studies Program (sabbatical) grant
2011 Faculty Humanities and Social Sciences $4700
2010 Design for Learning: implementation
2009 Travel grant Montevideo ALFAL $2000
2009 School grant Darwin Conference HERDSA
2009 Grant for Manila CELEAP $2000
2009 Design for Learning: university wide assessment committee: Travel grant national meeting of program coordinators Higher Education sector Sydney
2008 Travel grant Sydney ALAA $500
2007 Travel grant meeting of Spanish program coordinators Canberra
2007 Learning and Teaching grant development of web support materials for online language learning SPA2BEB
2007 Travel grant Auckland $2000
2006 Travel grant Brisbane ALAA $500
2006 Travel grant AAAL/ACLA Montreal $2000
2005 Travel grant New York Second Language Research Forum $2000
2001 Travel grant Barcelona ALTE $2000
Conference organising
2016 International Conference on Language and Emotion, Facultad de Derecho, Madrid. Organized by the EMO-FunDETT project group EMOtion and language 'at work': The discursive emotive/evaluative FUNction in DiffErent Texts and contexts within corporaTe and institutional work.
2014 HERDSA Melbourne organising committee 2015 conference
2013 Manila organising committee CE/LEAP III
2011 Manila organising committee CE/LEAP II
2009 Manila organising committee CE/LEAP I Congreso de Español como Lengua Extranjera en Asia Pacifico
2008 Sydney organising committee “The Culture of Assessment in Higher Education” for Faculty scholar grant from Carrick Institute/ALTC
Current research supervision
- Principal supervision: Unveiling socio-linguistic capital contained in the ‘cantos’ of current day Tzotzil Mayan midwives practicing in Los Altos de Chiapas, Mexico
- Co-supervision: The Nature of the Teaching and Learning Process and the role of Student Assessment in a Spanish/English Translation Practise Course
Research supervision (completed 2016)
- Principal supervision: Situating Social Resiliance: A case study of Zinacantecan interactions
- Language testing
- Discourse analysis
- Language teaching
- Language and identity
More information
Current key activities and roles
- Senior Lecturer, Spanish Studies
- Program Manager, Diploma of Languages
- Director, Spanish Resource Centre
- Member, Centre for Global Research
- Coordinator for
Teaching
Current key activities and roles
- Senior Lecturer, Spanish Studies
- Program Manager, Diploma of Languages
- Acting Coordinator, Spanish Studies, Semester 1 2016
- Director, Spanish Resource Centre
- Member, Centre for Global Research
- Coordinator for Spanish LEAD peer mentoring
Teaching
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PhD, Language testing
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MAppLing
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DipEd (LOTE-TESL) Spanish/French/Italian
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BA (Spanish/Hons)
Management
Victoria College, Director of Studies ESL/Literacy/ ELICOS 1992–96
La Trobe University program coordinator 2007–2011
Distinctions
2011 La Trobe University nomination for ALTC citation
2011 Vice Chancellor’s award for Teaching Excellence at La Trobe University
2011 Team leader for Spanish program application
2010 Outstanding Teacher in Learning and teaching and La Trobe University nomination for ALTC citation
2009 La Trobe University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
2009 Faculty of Humanities Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, ‘for developing innovative assessment and curriculum practices which develop effective communication skills and engage learners with content in a bilingual subject’
2008 Faculty Scholar award $12,000
Professional associations
- Ducasse, A.,Hill, K. (2015). Development of a Spanish generic writing skills scale for the Colombian Graduate Skills Assessment (SaberPro) In: Papers in Language Testing and Assessment, 4, 18 - 33
- Ducasse, A. (2014). Talking and learning: A cross faculty exploratory study through curriculum documents, lecturers' interviews and class observations In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2014), Seville, Spain, 17-19 November 2014
- Ducasse, A. (2013). Such a nice gesture: Paired Spanish interaction in oral test discourse In: Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 4, 1167 - 1175
- Ducasse, A. (2013). Nvivo in qualitative language testing research: Testing spoken interaction In: International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 2, 294 - 304
- Ducasse, A.,Brown, A. (2011). The role of interactive communication in IELTS speaking and its relationship to candidates' preparedness for study or training contexts In: IELTS Research Reports Volume 12, IDP: IELTS Australia and British Council, Melbourne, Australia
- Ducasse, A. (2011). Spanish writing: What do raters look for? In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, 14-16 November 2011
- Ducasse, A. (2010). Interaction in paired oral proficiency assessment in Spanish, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, Germany
- Ducasse, A.,Brown, A. (2009). Assessing paired orals: raters' orientation to interaction In: Language Testing, 26, 423 - 443
- Ducasse, A. (2009). Raters as scale makers for an L2 Spanish speaking test: using paired test discourse to develop a rating scale for communicative interaction In: Tasks and Criteria in Performance Assessment, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, Germany
1 PhD Completions