TEACHING ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

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 the acquisition of Italian;


- 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).

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

The Italian Linguistic Type;

Trends of contemporary Italian: grammatical rules and linguistic trends;

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

Phonology, Morphology, Syntax of Italian;

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.

- Soravia G., Le lingue del mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014;

- D’Achille P., L’italiano contemporaneo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006;

- Diadori P. - Palermo M. - Troncarelli D., Insegnare italiano come seconda lingua, Roma Carocci, 2015;

- Lo Duca M. G., Sillabo di italiano L2, Roma Carocci, 2007.