Programme

The course aims to provide the necessary tools and skills for teaching Italian to non-native speakers, with particular attention to the school context. The course is divided into two modules. The first module will illustrate the learning/teaching contexts of Italian L2, the models of Italian, the relationship between teaching, norms and variation, the influence of educational tools and in particular the textbooks adopted in secondary school. The second module will be dedicated to speech, dialogue and interaction in the classroom: it will therefore be a question of reflecting on the space attributed or to be attributed to orality in the teaching of Italian and on the complex relationship between spoken and written in today's variational structure. At the end of the course students will learn about the relevant topics of L1 and L2 Italian didactics, the parameters useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a textbook and will be able to design didactic paths that take into account the different varieties of Italian.

Core Documentation

Diadori, Pierangela / Palermo, Massimo / Troncarelli, Daniela (2015), Insegnare italiano come seconda lingua, Roma, Carocci.
De Roberto, Elisa (a cura di) (2020), Fuori e dentro il libro di italiano. Grammatiche e antologie nella scuola secondaria, Firenze, Cesati.
Andorno, Cecilia / Grassi, Roberta (2016), Le dinamiche dell’interazione. Prospettive di analisi e contesti applicativi, Milano, AItLA (e-book liberamente scaricabile dal sito www.aitla.it).

Type of delivery of the course

Meetings on Teams platform.

Type of evaluation

The assessment will consist of an oral interview during which the student must show that he or she is familiar with the themes and strategies of teaching Italian illustrated in the lessons and explained in depth through textbooks and that he or she has acquired the necessary skills to set up learning units on the structures and uses of the Italian language, with particular reference to the dimension of Italian L2.