TEACHING ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

The course aims at giving the students some theoretical and methodological instruments to:

• know linguistic typologies and the dynamics of linguistic contact;
• know dynamics of linguistic acquisition and especially those of Italian as a Foreign Language;
• analyze contemporary Italian’s repertoire;
• develop metalinguistic awareness, possessing some instructional elements for Italian language;
• learn how to consider mistakes, and therefore whether to correct errors and mistakes;
• know CEFR’s guidelines

There will be 27 lessons, for a total amount of 54 hours.

Students who will regularly attend classes will be able to sustain a test during the course and prepare a lesson's project on one of course’s topics. They will have to present their lesson's project in class; the project, in its final version, has to be given to the teacher at least one week before the final exam.

Students who will not attend the course will have only an oral exam.

CONTENTS:

- theoretical principles of language teaching;

- contemporary Italian's main traits, referring to phonology and phonetics, morphology, lexicon, syntax;

- contemporary Italin's varietes;

- elemnts of acuisitional linguistics;

- theories of language acquisition;

- historical development of language teaching;

- the Common European Framework (CEF);

- know the concept of evaluation;

- know different ways to evaluate according to levels;

- know different theories and teaching methods in order to test.

Diadori P., Palermo M., Troncarelli D., Insegnare l’italiano come seconda lingua, Carocci, 2015.

Giovanardi C. - De Roberto E. , L’italiano. Strutture, comunicazione, testi. Pearson 2018.

Rastelli S., Che cos’è la didattica acquisizionale, Carocci, 2009.

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