MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
ROSARIA SARDO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the
end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) Knowledge and understanding: the
course aims to provide students with advanced methodological tools to reflect
on: Linguistic Typology, languages in contact and interlanguages;
2) Ability to apply knowledge and
understanding of Language acquisition and specific processes related to Italian
language acquisition; Contemporary Languages: Grammar, Lexical and
Morphosyntactic Structures; Language Teaching and Metacognitive processes;
Language Evaluation Processes and Errors related to Italian as a Second or
Foreign Language;
3) Autonomy of judgement (related to
language skills and the Common European Framework and the Certification Systems).
4) Learning skills on L2 teaching
5) Communication skills (the Course
also offers skills and strategies necessary to improve communication in the L2
classroom, in order to plan a teaching syllabus)
Course Structure
Frontal lessons (power point, video, surfing websites, use of language
corpora), lectures with invited speakers, practical lessons aimed at creating a
language unit.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
1) Principles of Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
- theoretical
principles of language teaching;
- theories of
language acquisition;
- historical
development of language teaching;
- the Common
European Framework (CEF);
2)
Teaching Strategies
- the concept of
evaluation;
- different ways to
evaluate according to levels;
- theories and
teaching methods in order to test;
SKILLS: the
students are able
- to make
connections between theory and its implications for practice;
- to choose and
create a testing according to different objectives;
- to use different
ways and grids according to different objectives and the method chosen;
- to select levels,
to choose the teaching method according to context and the people involved;
COMPETENCES: the
students
- apply different
ways and grids to create a testing according to context and people involved;
-
create and implement a testing in virtual environments.
Textbook Information
- Andorno, C. - Valentini, A. - Grassi, R. Verso una nuova lingua. Capire l'acquisizione di L2,
Torino, Utet Università, 2017 (pp. 5 - 299);
- Balboni, P. Le sfide di Babele.
Insegnare le lingue nelle società complesse, UTET università, Torino
2012 (pp. 5- 244);
- Danesi, M. – Diadori, P. – Semplici, S., 2018, Tecniche didattiche per la seconda lingua. Strategie e strumenti, anche
in contesti CLIL, Roma, Carocci (pp. 7-330)
- D. Cortés Velásquez, S. Faone, E. Nuzzo (2017) Analizzare
i manuali per l’insegnamento delle lingue: strumenti per una glottodidattica
applicata, in: «Italiano LinguaDue» n. 2. 2017 (pp. 1-74) https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-3597/9871
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO