DIDATTICA DELLE LINGUE STRANIERE

The course aims at giving some theoretical and practical instruments of didactics of foreign languages, through the knowledge of main theoretical and methodological tendencies of glottodidactics.

Moreover, students will develop the capacity to choose the best educational strategy for the context in which they will project their courses.

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.

Students will know

• Glottodidactics elements;
• theories of Acquisitional linguistics;
• the history of didactics od foreign languages;
• CEFR;
• Some principles of evaluation.

Students will learn to:

• establish links between theory and educational practices;
• analize activities and exercises;
• understand linguistc levels of the students and project coherent activities.

• Balboni P.E., Le sfide di Babele. Insegnare le lingue nelle società complesse (quarta edizione), UTET, 2015.
• Chini M., Che cos’è la linguistica acquisizionale, Carocci, 2005;
• Beacco J.C., Byram M., Cavalli M., et alii, Guida per lo sviluppo e l’attuazione di curricoli per una educazione plurilingue e interculturale, Council of Europe, 2016 (prima edizione 2010), reperibile on line su «Italiano LinguaDue» 2016.
• Cardona M., L’insegnamento e l’apprendimento del lessico in ambiente CLIL. Il CLIL e l’approccio lessicale. Alcune riflessioni, «Studi di glottodidattica», 2009, 2, 1-19;
• Cortés Velasquez D., Faone S., Nuzzo E., Analizzare i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica applicata, in «Italiano LinguaDue», v. 9, n°2, 2017 (disponibile online)