- Docente: Greta Zanoni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
The student knows the basic principles related to teaching / learning foreign languages. He/She is able to use some teaching techniques and to monitor the development of his/her own learning. He/she is able to independently develop further knowledge and skills in the specific disciplinary area and to use them appropriately
Course contents
The course aims to address the following topics:
- the main theories relating to the learning of mother and secondary languages;
- the general teaching principles of modern languages;
- language learning through interaction;
- teaching pragmatics;
- task-based teaching;
- the use of technologies to learn / teach languages.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Ciliberti, Glottodidattica. Per una cultura dell’insegnamento linguistico, Roma, Carocci 2012. In particular chapters. 1, 2, 3, 4 [pp.21.-90]; chapters 6, 7 e 8 [pp. 115-172]; and chapter .12 [pp. 227-248]
M. Chini, C.Bosisio (a cura di), Fondamenti di glottodidattica. Apprendere e insegnare le lingue oggi, Carocci, 2014: SOLO Cap 4, La didattica della L2, pp.175-248.
Nuzzo E., Grassi R. (2016) Input, output e interazione nell'insegnamento delle lingue. SOLO Cap. 3 L'intervento sull'output pp.93-122
Van den Branden, K. (2016) “Task-based language teaching”, in Hall, G. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching, New York: Routledge, pp. 238-251.
Pallotti G. (2017), Applying the interlanguage approach to language teaching, in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language teaching 55/4, pp. 393-412.
Bardovi-Harlig K. (2012), Pragmatics in second language acquisition, in S. Gass, A. Mackey (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 147-162.
C. Kramsch, (2014) “The Challenge of Globalization for the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Cultures”, in Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, n. 2, pp. 249–254
Teaching methods
Lectures and laboratory activities (analysis of audio-video texts and teaching activities and materials).
Assessment methods
The exam consists of an oral interview that aims to evaluate the knowledge acquired by the student in relation to the theoretical and practical aspects that characterize the teaching of modern languages. The evaluation of the oral interview will be based mainly on the acquired knowledge, on the ability to argue and on the appropriateness of terminology.
Teaching tools
During the lessons, additional supports will be used and provided, including audiovisual tools, power points, websites, e-learning resources for language learning and teaching.
Office hours
See the website of Greta Zanoni