00789 - Italian Linguistics

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Angela Chiantera
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: L-FIL-LET/12
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary teacher education (cod. 8540)

Learning outcomes

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

Recommended reading

For the oral exam reading of the following essays and documents are recommended:

- C. Lavinio, Comunicazione e linguaggi disciplinari, Carocci, 2004

- R. Zuccherini, Manuale del parlare: una retorica per i ragazzi, La nuova Italia

- A. Colombo (a cura di), Il curricolo e l'educazione linguistica: leggere le nuove Indicazioni, Milano, F. Angeli, 2008: only essays of A. Colombo, A. Chiantera, S. Rossi, T. Marchese, I. Tempesta.

- GISCEL, Le dieci tesi per l'educazione linguistica democratica ( www.giscel.org )

- Part concerning "I discorsi e le parole" in Indicazioni per il curricolo - 2012 ( www.miur.it )

- Part concerning "Lingua italiana" in Indicazioni per il curricolo - 2012 (www.miur.it )

Assessment methods

The exam will be written.

Students not attending will be required to read the above mentioned texts and also

- Baumgartner E. - Devescovi A., I bambini raccontano, Erickson, 2001

Office hours

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