SANDRA PETRONI

Associate professor

email: sandra.petroni@uniroma2.it
phone: 0761435155



Sandra Petroni is an associate professor of English Language and Linguistics. Her research interests include multimodality, critical multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, psycholinguistics, and foreign language teaching and learning. Her recent studies focus on the impact of new digital technologies on old and new social practices and discourses, and the development of critical thinking in educational settings. Among her various academic roles, she has been a member of the University Evaluation Board since 2021. In 2017, she was a visiting professor at the Centre of Translation Studies, University of Leeds (UK). She serves on several editorial boards, including being a member of the Scientific Committee for the RiPLA journal (Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata/Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics, a Peer-Reviewed Journal indexed by APA PsycINFO, WoS, Scopus) since 2014, and a Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communication (section Multimodality of Communication), an online journal, since 2021. In 2014, she received a special mention for the “ ‘Tor Vergata’ Award for Innovation in Teaching and Training” for the methodological approach used in the English language programs of the Languages in the Information Society degree course. She has also participated in various national and international research projects and was the head of the 'Tor Vergata' unit, a winning partner in the European Erasmus Plus project, KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, EUMADE4LL (European Multimodal and Digital Education for Language Learning) from 2016 to 2019.


Research products

2108/445582 - 2025 - Includere o escludere? Un approccio critico ai processi di alfabetizzazione digitale nei contesti di apprendimento
Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: Dialogo sulle dis/connessioni digitali tra linguistica e sociologia. Atti della tavola rotonda del 4 dicembre 2024 (Firenze)
book: Dialogo sulle dis/connessioni digitali tra linguistica e sociologia. - (9788859625254)

2108/390710 - 2024 - Beyond the Common Framework of Reference for Intercultural Digital Literacies: The Evolution of Some Digital Text Genres Informing the Framework
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: INVERBIS (Roma : Carocci) pp. 161-172 - issn: 2279-8978 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/390581 - 2024 - How multimodal digital literacy develops critical thinking skills in second language learners
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Metalinguistic Awareness: Recomposing Cognitive, Linguistic and Cultural Conflicts. Studies in Honor of Maria Antonietta Pinto. - (978-88-9377-311-9)

2108/390723 - 2024 - Introduction. Digital Discourse across Texts, Contexts, and Practices
Petroni, Sandra - 05 - Curatele
paper: INVERBIS (Roma : Carocci) pp. - - issn: 2279-8978 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/348364 - 2023 - “Editorial article”. Movement, embodiment, Kinesemiotics: Interdisciplinary approaches to movement-based communication
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION (Lausanne: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-) pp. - - issn: 2297-900X - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/348365 - 2023 - Movement, embodiment, Kinesemiotics: Interdisciplinary approaches to movement-based communication
Petroni, Sandra - 05 - Curatele
paper: FRONTIERS IN COMMUNICATION (Lausanne: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-) pp. - - issn: 2297-900X - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/348366 - 2023 - Can Interfaces and Social Profiles ‘Speak Without Words’? Social Platforms as Ideological Tools to Shape Identities and Discourses
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: LINGUE E LINGUAGGI (Lecce : Università del Salento, Coordinamento SIBA) pp. 43-63 - issn: 2239-0359 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/348363 - 2023 - A Testset-Based Method to Analyse the Negation-Detection Performance of Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis Tools
Naldi, Maurizio; Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: COMPUTERS (Basel : MDPI) pp. - - issn: 2073-431X - wos: WOS:000914545900001 (5) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85146653211 (8)

2108/284588 - 2022 - Sindoni, M.G, Adami E., Karatza, S., Moschini I., Petroni, S- Theory and Practice of the Common Framework of Reference for Intercultural Digital Literacies (CFRIDiL)
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Multimodal Literacies Across Digital Learning Contexts - (9780367681043)

2108/321660 - 2021 - Beyond borders: investigating emotions across cultures and disciplines. Special Issue. RiPLA, Anno XXI/2, 2021, pp. 116.
Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Petroni, Sandra - 05 - Curatele
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali.) pp. - - issn: 1724-0646 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/284582 - 2021 - Editorial - the Special Issue of RiPLA/Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics xxi/2 edited by Maria Lozano Zahonero and Sandra Petroni
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali) pp. 9-17 - issn: 1592-1328 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/284576 - 2021 - Are Social Media Inhabited Spaces or Places? How Public and Private are Recontextualised by Digital Technology
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions across Disciplines - (1-5275-7462-8)

2108/284578 - 2021 - Representing Space and Movement in Digital Discourse
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Studi di filologia, linguistica e letteratura in onore di Anna Maria Guerrieri - (9788892900851)

2108/321680 - 2021 - Editorial. Beyond borders: investigating emotions across cultures and disciplines. Special Issue. RiPLA, Anno XXI/2, 2021
Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali.) pp. 9-17 - issn: 1724-0646 - wos: WOS:000753705700001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85132520142 (0)

2108/262116 - 2020 - How to construct corporate identity and reputation. Is the ‘About Us’ page a micro-genre?
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: LINGUE E LINGUAGGI (Lecce : Università del Salento, Coordinamento SIBA) pp. 267-290 - issn: 2239-0359 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/276191 - 2020 - LIGHT VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali.) pp. 85-100 - issn: 1724-0646 - wos: WOS:000629253100006 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85130139080 (0)

2108/228055 - 2019 - La rappresentazione del femminile attraverso il digital storytelling
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Femminismo e femminismi. Culture, luoghi, problematiche - (978-88-32193-05-3)

2108/228051 - 2019 - How Social Media Shape Identities and Discourses in Professional Digital Settings: Self-Communication or Self-Branding?
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Analyzing Digital Discourse. New Insights and Future Directions - (978-3-319-92662-9)

2108/191229 - 2017 - Gender Biases in Digital Discourse and Technology
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Declinazioni di genere. Madri, padri, figli e figlie - (978-884675059-4)

2108/200383 - 2017 - Multimodality in the English Language Syllabi across Europe
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Euromosaic: A Still Open Challenge - ()

2108/200030 - 2017 - Specialised and professional discourse across media and genres
Degano, Chiara; Naldi, Maurizio; Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: SPECIALISED AND PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE ACROSS MEDIA AND GENRES - (9788867056552)

2108/191217 - 2016 - Digitality and Persuasive Technologies: Towards an SFL Model of New Social Actions and Practices in Digital Settings
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age - (9781781792384)

2108/185448 - 2016 - Accuracy of second language skills self-assessment through a web-based survey tool
Baraniello, Vincenzo; Degano, Chiara; Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Naldi, Maurizio; Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning - (978-3-319-40164-5)

2108/98588 - 2015 - Anytime anywhere learning: if mobile apps affect second language learning
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Innovation in Methodology and Practice in Language Learning: Experiences and Proposals for University Language Centres - ()

2108/149667 - 2015 - Perceiving a fragmented unity: Antinomic Relations in Digitality
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Semiotics 2014. The Semiotics of Paradox - (978-1-897493-58-8)

2108/149687 - 2015 - The WALLeT project (wiki assisted language learning and translation): bridging the gap between university language teaching and professional communities of discourse
Baraniello, Vincenzo; Degano, Chiara; Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Naldi, Maurizio; Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: DICOEN VIII , Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (Napoli)
book: Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise VIII – DICOEN VIII Pre-Conference Proceedings - (8894103900)

2108/146735 - 2015 - A Wiki-Based approach to computer-assisted transla- tion for collaborative language learning
Baraniello, Vincenzo; Degano, Chiara; Lozano Zahonero, Maria Purificacion; Naldi, Maurizio; Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: International workshop on social and personal computing for Web-supported learning communities SPeL, 8th, 2015 (Sinaia (Romania))
book: State-of-the-art and future directions of smart learning - (978-981-287-866-3)

2108/93183 - 2014 - Institutional Settings on the Web: Linking Processes and the Dissolution of Genre Boundaries
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Tracking language change in specialised and professional genres. - (9788860491206)

2108/98589 - 2014 - How social actions and practices are affected by persuasive technologies
Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality. Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop (Coventry (UK))
book: Language in a digital age: Be not afraid of digitality. Proceedings from the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop: 1st to 3rd July 2013, Coventry University, UK - (978-18460007-13)

2108/105488 - 2014 - Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: LEA (Firenze: Firenze university press) pp. 259-271 - issn: 1824-484X - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/20649 - 2014 - Collaborative writing and linking: when technology interacts with genres in meaning construction
Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: Convegno Internazionale Specialised Genres. Past, Present, Future (Roma)
book: Evolution in Genre. Emergence, variation, multimodality/Paola Evangelist Allori, John Bateman, Vijay K. Bhatia - (9783034315333)

2108/111969 - 2014 - Cognitive and affective implications of mobile technology for second language learning
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali) pp. 97-111 - issn: 1592-1328 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/93447 - 2013 - Linguist List Book Review of A.F. PLASTINA (2012)Applied Linguistics and Semantic Web Apps: Cases of Mediated Discursive Practices. Lincom GmbH
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: LINGUIST LIST (College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University) pp. - - issn: 1068-4875 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/105349 - 2013 - Advermational territories on the web: hybridity or resemiotisation?
Petroni, Sandra - 99 - Altro

2108/77800 - 2012 - Developing meta-affective skills via chatbots
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: ACADEMIC EXCHANGE QUARTERLY (Rapid Intellect:PO Box 131:Stuyvesant Falls, NY 12174:(518)392-1847, EMAIL: rig@rapidintellect.com, INTERNET: http://www.rapidintellect.com) pp. 12-17 - issn: 1096-1453 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/77802 - 2012 - Il web multilingue.
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Comunicazione digitale e comunicazione in rete. Nozioni, competenze, applicazioni. - (9788854848009)

2108/77805 - 2012 - Moving through Electronic Space: The Role of Metaphors in ICT Discourse.
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Applied Psycholinguistics. Positive Effects and Ethical Perspectives - (9788856874303)

2108/20651 - 2011 - Affective Learning and Computational Systems : New Perspectives on Second Language Learning
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali) pp. 11-32 - issn: 1592-1328 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/20653 - 2011 - Language in the Multimodal Web Domain
Petroni, Sandra - 04 - Monografia

2108/20641 - 2010 - Localizing the Internet : Pros and Cons of the New Challenge to Overcome Linguistic Marginalization. The Role of English
Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: Rovesciare Babele. Economia ed ecologia delle lingue regionali e minoritarie (Teramo)
book: Babel renversée. Economie et écologie des langues régionales et minoritaires. Troisièmes Journées des Droits Linguistiques. Actes du colloque international. - (9788854839014)

2108/20648 - 2009 - Affectivity and humour in computer-mediated communication : can they survive in a virtual domain?
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali) pp. 53-75 - issn: 1592-1328 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/98580 - 2007 - Recensione della traduzione di Daniele Niedda del volume di Raymond W. Gibbs Jr, (2006), La poetica della mente. Pensiero, linguaggio e comprensione figurati
Petroni, Sandra - 99 - Altro

2108/20654 - 2007 - Lingua cultura e ideologia nella traduzione di prodotti multimediali. Cinema Televisione Web.
Scelfo, Maria Grazia; Petroni, Sandra - 05 - Curatele

2108/20645 - 2007 - Web Writer e Web Translator : due professioni a confronto nell'era della globalizzazione.
Petroni, Sandra - 02 - Intervento a convegno
conference: Lingua, cultura e ideologia nella traduzione di prodotti multimediali. Cinema, televisione, web (Roma)
book: Lingua cultura e ideologia nella traduzione di prodotti multimediali. Cinema televisione e web. - (9788854815698)

2108/20657 - 2004 - Self-Study : La multimedialità e l’apprendimento della lingua inglese nel nuovo sistema universitario italiano
Petroni, Sandra - 04 - Monografia

2108/20644 - 2004 - Cognition, Affect, Simulation and Performance : The Four Corners of the Learning Space
Petroni, Sandra - 01 - Articolo su rivista
paper: RIVISTA DI PSICOLINGUISTICA APPLICATA (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali) pp. 53-69 - issn: 1592-1328 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

2108/49919 - 1997 - Teaching English for Specific Purposes : Business English
Petroni, Sandra - 99 - Altro

2108/20658 - 1995 - Playing the language : oggetto e prassi linguistica
Petroni, Sandra - 03 - Contributo in libro
book: Parlare lo spazio : sentieri semiotici e linguistici - (8871198360)

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