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della Volpe, Maddalena; Esposito, Francesca – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
This article aims to analyse Italian universities' official websites discursive practices to assess their involvement in the university third mission: the contribution by universities to the social and economic development of the environment in which they act. To achieve it, textual data were extracted from the official websites of the 91 Italian…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Universities, Institutional Mission, Educational Quality
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Florit, Elena; Cain, Kate; Levorato, Maria Chiara – First Language, 2017
This study examined Italian 7- to 9-year-olds' understanding of the connective "but" when used to relate two events in sentences embedded in short stories. Performance was largely accounted for by the cognitive complexity of the sentence that included the connective and the salience of its meaning (confirmed in a second study with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Usage, Native Language, Language Acquisition