TEACHING ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

L-LIN/02 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ROSARIA SARDO


Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide students with advanced methodological tools to reflect on:

- Linguistic Typology, languages in contact and interlanguages;

- Language acquisition and specific processes related to italian language acquisition;

- Contemporary Italian Language: Grammar, Lexical and Morphosyntactic Structures;

- Language Teaching and Metacognitive processes;

- Language Evaluation Processes and Errors related to Italian as a Second or Foreign Language;

- The Common European Framework and the Italian Certification Systems (CILS - Certificazione di Italiano come Lingua Straniera, Università per Stranieri di Siena; CELI - Certificato di conoscenza della lingua italiana, Università di Perugia; IT - Certificazione di Italiano, Università di Roma Tre; PLIDA - Progetto Lingua Italiana, Società Dante Alighieri; CLIQ - Certificazione Lingua Italiana di Qualità).

The Course also offers skills and strategies necessary to plan a teaching syllabus (Italian as a L2 or LS).


Course Structure

Lectures.



Detailed Course Content

Principles of Linguistic Typology and Basic Elements of Language Universals, Language Varieties and Glottodidactics;

The Italian Linguistic Type;

Trends of contemporary Italian Language: grammatical rules and linguistic trends;

Diachronic and sociolinguistic variations of the language in relation to linguistic norm;

Phonology, Morphology, Syntax of Italian Language;

Contemporary approach to Foreign Language Teaching; the Communicative competence;

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;

Syllabus design (grammatical, situational, functional-notional, procedural) and the Common European Framework;

Competence Evaluation and Certification.



Textbook Information

· Diadori, P. (2015), Insegnare italiano a stranieri, Firenze, le Monnier (pp. 2-373)

· Minuz, F. (2017), Italiano L2 e alfabetizzazione in età adulta, Roma, Carocci (pp. 13-170)

· Lorenzetti, L. (2006), L’italiano contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci (pp. 8-119)

· Crippa, Francesco (2014) Considerazioni sull'acquisizione dei tempi verbali dell'italiano da parte di apprendenti sinofoni, in: «Italiano LinguaDue» n. 1, 2014, pp 148-162

https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-3597/4231

· Mammucari Ilaria – Nuzzo Elena, Acquisizione e uso dell’articolo italiano da parte di sinofoni: uno studio di caso sull’espressione della definitezza «Italiano LinguaDue» n. 2. 2019, pp. 106-120 https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-3597/12765

· Schmid Stephan (2004) Dallo spagnolo all’italiano: elementi di analisi contrastiva nella prospettiva dell’acquisizione, in C. Ghezzi, F. Guerini, P. Molinelli, (Atti del Convegno “Italiano e lingue immigrate a confronto: riflessioni per la pratica didattica, Bergamo, 23- 25 giugno 2003), pp. 197-219 http://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/112601/1/2004b_Schmid.pdf

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.




Open in PDF format Versione in italiano