ITALIAN TEACHING L2 / LS

Attending the course students will gain first elements of Italian as a second language or as a foreign language, focussing on diachronic evolution of the main didactic models and on the most important didactic techniques. Therefore, different typologies of learners will be examined, focussing on their needs and on their aims and purposes; students will also have some elements on how to teach in a multicultural and multi-linguistic didactic environment. A particular attention will be given to the techniques more useful to guide learners to discover grammar and to conduct a metalinguistic reflection.

The course will be made of 18 lessons, for a total amount of 36 hours. 

There will be 1 test, not compulsory, that will be focussed on analysis of authentic texts and organization of a didactic project.

• Learners typologies: children, adults, seniors. 
• The educational triangle: language- teacher- student. 
• From translational method to communicative approach. 
• Structure of Italian L2 handbooks. 
• Textual linguistics: text’s features. 
• How to project a didactic unit based on authentic inputs. 
• Educational linguistics.
• From the Giscel thesis to Common European Framework. 
• Intercultural didactics. 
• Reflecting on language and its grammar: Italian educational tradition and new trends. 
• Grammar focus: didactic of past tenses, of gerundio and of dependency grammar.

Diadori P., Semplici S., Troncarelli D., Didattica di base dell’italiano L2, Carocci, 2020.  (pp. 168)

Duso E. M., Quale grammatica per apprendere l’italiano L2. Proposte didattiche per giovani e adulti, Roma, Carocci, 2023 (pp. 180)

Coveri L., La canzone nell’insegnamento dell’italiano L2, in «Italiano LinguaDue», n. 1. 2020, pp. 173-181 (https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/promoitals/article/view/13752/12886)

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The reference texts can be consulted in the Library.

The final examination will be oral; the mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical property, and the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate will be taken into account for evaluation.

Those who wish to do so may take an on-going practical test, which will consist of the analysis and teaching of authentic materials.

The pronominal system. The difference between the imperfect and the distant past; uses of the conditional; varieties of Italian; relationships between Italian and English; evolution of glottodidactic approaches; analysis of foreign learners' errors; the language-culture pair. The parts of speech; functioning of the verbal system; The relative propositions.