MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Frontal lessons (power point, video, surfing websites, use of language corpora), lectures with invited speakers, practical lessons aimed at creating a language unit.

1) Principles of Language Acquisition and Language Teaching

- theoretical principles of language teaching;

- theories of language acquisition;

- historical development of language teaching;

- the Common European Framework (CEF);

2) Teaching Strategies

- the concept of evaluation;

- different ways to evaluate according to levels;

- theories and teaching methods in order to test;

SKILLS: the students are able

- to make connections between theory and its implications for practice;

- to choose and create a testing according to different objectives;

- to use different ways and grids according to different objectives and the method chosen;

- to select levels, to choose the teaching method according to context and the people involved;

COMPETENCES: the students

- apply different ways and grids to create a testing according to context and people involved;

- create and implement a testing in virtual environments.

Andorno, C. - Valentini, A. - Grassi, R. Verso una nuova lingua. Capire l'acquisizione di L2, Torino, Utet Università, 2017 (pp. 5 - 299);

Balboni, P. Le sfide di Babele. Insegnare le lingue nelle società complesse, UTET università, Torino 2012 (pp. 5- 244);

Danesi, M. – Diadori, P. – Semplici, S., 2018, Tecniche didattiche per la seconda lingua. Strategie e strumenti, anche in contesti CLIL, Roma, Carocci (pp. 7-330)