MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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

Students will know the most important didactic strategies, with a particular regard to humanistic approach. Moreover, students will be able to project their lessons according to European Framework and responding to psychological and cognitive features of learners and to their specific linguistic needs. 

During the course, made of 18 lessons, there will be several tests that will not be evaluated, but that will be useful for an auto-evaluation. 

There will be a midterm test (which will be evaluated) and a laboratory activity. 

The students who will choose to do a practical activity will structure a lesson and will present their work to the class. The final version of this work will be submitted to the teacher one week at least before final exam. 

Class attendance, as per the regulations of the CdS in "Language Sciences for Interculturality and Education," is optional. However, careful and constant attendance of the course is highly recommended, so that you can participate in all the proposed activities and clarify any more problematic aspects of the program.

• History of Glottodidactics; 
• theories of second language acquisition; 
• interlanguange; 
• how to deal with errors and mistakes; 
• how to verify competence level; 
• “content and language integrated learning”; 
• how to use authentic inputs; 
• how to analyze didactic tools; 
• how children acquire a language; 
• Lexicon (lexical ambiguity; idiomatic language)
• European Framework.

P. Balboni, Le «nuove» sfide di Babele. Insegnare le lingue nelle società «liquide». Torino, Utet Università, 2023 (p. 171)

F. Casadei - G. Basile, a cura di, Lessico ed educazione linguistica, Roma, Carocci, 2019 (p. 220)

Quadro comune europeo di riferimento per le lingue: apprendimento, insegnamento, valutazione. Volume complementare, in «Italiano LinguaDue», 12/2, 2020, https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/promoitals/article/view/15120

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