Nicola Brocca
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicola Brocca is involved.
2026 Exploring pragmatic competence in “New Italians”: Refusals and cancellations in Certit B1 candidates’ voice messages Applied Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the pragmatic competence of L2 speakers of Italian (N = 101) who successfully passed the Certit B1 exam, focusing on their oral production of refusals and cancellations in voice messages. The data, collected from authentic exam performances, were analyzed through two… read more
2026 Chapter 10. Conducting task-based needs analysis in digital lower secondary school contexts TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals, Khezrlou, Sima (ed.), pp. 204–228 | Chapter
Conducting a task-based needs analysis (TBNA) for young learners in foreign language classrooms presents specific challenges, as young learners often lack an immediate purpose for using a foreign language. In recent years, young learners have increasingly engaged with foreign languages through… read more
2025 Exploring pre-service teachers’ criteria for evaluating collaboratively designed online tasks TASK 5:1, pp. 57–87 | Article
This study examines the criteria that pre-service teachers (PSTs) use to evaluate collaboratively designed technology-mediated interaction tasks. The paper presents PSTs’ reflections on tasks as part of a telecollaborative task design seminar conducted within the ERASMUS+ project DIGITASK4IC.… read more
2023 Recalling presupposed information: Evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 92–119 | Article
This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the… read more