MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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).

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.