04163 - Italian Teaching

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Angela Chiantera
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/12
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Angela Chiantera (Modulo 1) Cristiana De Santis (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

Beginning with a reflection on the linguistic abilities and habits of make and female students, the course proposes to outline the principles and features of Italian language teaching in primary schools. The goal of language teaching is that the children acquire articulate linguistic competence and active means to reflect on and search for the most suitable means of communication to fulfil their needs.

Particular attention will be focused on teaching strategies to adopt in order to encourage learning of written language ad development of metalinguistic competence.

Course contents

Beginning with a reflection on the linguistic abilities and habits of make and female students, the course proposes to outline the principles and features of Italian language teaching in primary schools. The goal of language teaching is that the children acquire articulate linguistic competence and active means to reflect on and search for the most suitable means of communication to fulfil their needs.

Particular attention will be focused on teaching strategies to adopt in order to encourage learning of written language ad development of metalinguistic competence.

Readings/Bibliography

The following texts must be studied in order to qualify for the exam:

I. Monighetti, La lettera e il senso. Un approccio interattivo all'apprendimento della lettura e della scrittura, La Nuova Italia, 1994 (pp. 51-243)

D. Bertocchi- G. Ravizza- L. Rovida, Metodi e strumenti per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento dell'italiano, EdiSES, 2014 (pp.1-167)
M. G. Lo Duca, Esperimenti grammaticali, Carocci, 2004: chap. 3 e 4 ( Esperimenti 7, 8, 9, 16, 17).
D. Parisi (a cura di), Per un'educazione linguistica razionale, il Mulino, 1979: chap. XII.

Teaching methods

The exam will be oral.

Office hours

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See the website of Cristiana De Santis