Teaching code

4S006125

Teacher

Paolo Nitti

Coordinatore

Paolo Nitti

Credits

8

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-FIL-LET/12 - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

Language

Italian

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Lessons timetable

Moodle

Learning outcomes

PRE-SCHOOL
1. Knowledge and Understanding
At the end of the course, students are required:
- to know the processes and the techniques for literacy learning, particularly for pregraphy activities;
- to know the processes of composition of the linguistic texts and the parameters of classification of the textual typology;
- To be competent in comparison to the different theories of acquisition of the language and language education;
- To know the Italian language as its history, and uses;
- To know different levels of analysis and description of the language and its complexity: phonology, morphology, lexicon;
- Being able to develop the communicative competence inside the Primary School and the School of the infancy;
- To be competent concerning the didactics of the mother language, of the second language and the foreign languages, also considering the factors of diversity inside the classes.
2. Applying Knowledge and Understanding
At the end of the course students are required to know:
- To teach to express with effectiveness;
- To appraise and to develop the understanding of a spoken text or narrated;
- to face the didactic specificities required by the presence in the class of pupils of different linguistic matrix in comparison to that Italian;
- to plan runs for the acquisition of the language;
- to frame the normative features for the teaching of the Italian language and for the guardianship of the languages of minority.
3. Making Judgments
At the end of the course the students will have acquired
• the ability to plan didactic interventions for the learning of the Italian language and for the linguistic education;
• the ability to appraise the linguistic competences of the own students.
4. Communication Skills
At the end of the course the students will owe:
• to know how to use in aware way the specific terms related to the linguistics and to the language education;
• to know how to communicate to his/her parents, to his/her children and the colleagues his/her own choices and evaluations of linguistic and educational environment.
5. Learning Skills
At the end of the course the students and the students will owe:
• To select materials for the learning and the description of the language (corpora, dictionaries, grammars, didactic texts);
• To be competent as it regards the description of the possibilities offered by the language;
• Being able to upgrade in autonomy in comparison to the evolution of the research in linguistics and in language education fields.

PRIMARY SCHOOL
1. Knowledge and Understanding
At the end of the course, students are required:
- to know the processes and the techniques for literacy learning, particularly for pregraphy activities;
- to know the processes of composition of the linguistic texts and the parameters of classification of the textual typology;
- To be competent in comparison to the different theories of acquisition of the language and language education;
- To know the Italian language as its history, and uses;
- To know different levels of analysis and description of the language and its complexity: phonology, morphology, lexicon;
- Being able to develop the communicative competence inside the Primary School and the School of the infancy;
- To be competent concerning the didactics of the mother language, of the second language and the foreign languages, also considering the factors of diversity inside the classes.
2. Applying Knowledge and Understanding
At the end of the course students are required to know:
- To teach to express with effectiveness;
- To appraise and to develop the understanding of a spoken text or narrated;
- to face the didactic specificities required by the presence in the class of pupils of different linguistic matrix in comparison to that Italian;
- to plan runs for the acquisition of the language;
-to frame the normative features for the teaching of the Italian language and for the guardianship of the languages of minority.
3. Making Judgments
At the end of the course the students will have acquired
• the ability to plan didactic interventions for the learning of the Italian language and for the linguistic education;
• the ability to appraise the linguistic competences of the own students.
4. Communication Skills
At the end of the course the students will owe:
• to know how to use in aware way the specific terms related to the linguistics and to the language education;
• to know how to communicate to his/her parents, to his/her children and the colleagues his/her own choices and evaluations of linguistic and educational environment.
5. Learning Skills
At the end of the course the students and the students will owe:
• To select materials for the learning and the description of the language (corpora, dictionaries, grammars, didactic texts);
• To be competent as it regards the description of the possibilities offered by the language;
• Being able to upgrade in autonomy in comparison to the evolution of the research in linguistics and in language education fields.

Program

The course is divided in two parts: descriptive linguistic elements and Italian language teaching as FL and SL.

The main fields are:
- Principles on Descriptive Linguistics;
- The scientific study of the language (manuals, dictionaries, repertoires, databases);
- The features of a language;
- Different forms of analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax, text, pragmatics, vocabulary;
- Sociolinguistic varieties;
- The Italian language between innovation and preservation;
- The Italian grammar;
- The violation of rules;
- Acquisition of language main theories;
- Italian language and Language Teaching;
- Italian language and sexism;
- Language education for literacy.

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