TEACHING ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Lectures, multimedial sessions
• Workshop on Didactic Units

Principles of Language Acquisition and Language Teaching;

1. Language Acquisition and Language Teaching;
2. Linguistic Typology and Basic Elements of Language Universals, Language Varieties. Alphabetic and non Alphabetic Cultures: Literacy and new didactic methods;

2. Contemporary Italian

1. The Italian Linguistic Type;
2. Trends of contemporary Italian Language: grammatical rules and linguistic trends;
3. Diachronic and sociolinguistic variations of the language in relation to linguistic norm;
4. Phonology, Morphology, Syntax of Italian Language;

3) Teaching Strategies

1. Contemporary approach to Foreign Language Teaching; the Communicative competence;
2. Foreign Language Teaching goals; Teaching language skills; the concept of language awareness; assessment and self-assessment; language portfolio. Use of media in Foreign Language Teaching;
3. Syllabus design (grammatical, situational, functional-notional, procedural) and the Common European Framework;

Competence Evaluation and Certification.

1. Diadori, P. (2015), Insegnare italiano a stranieri, Firenze, le Monnier (pp. 2-373)
2. Minuz, F. (2017), Italiano L2 e alfabetizzazione in età adulta, Roma, Carocci (pp. 13-170)
3. Lorenzetti, L. (2006), L’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci (pp. 8-119)
4. Troncarelli, D. – La Grassa, M. (2017), GrammaticAvanzata, Roma, Edilingua (pp. 7- 294)