IM
100: Glottodidattica: Fondamenti, metodi e tecniche.
Lecturer: Prof J Eynaud
Value of Unit: 2 credits
B.Ed (Hons) 3rd Years - Semester 1
Mode of Assessment: Assignment and Oral
Objectives and course description
Methodology comprises a critical examination of
the principles underlying the teaching and learning of
Italian as a foreign language study and
of the problems involved in terms of the nature
of language and the limitations of
the classroom situation, and to a consideration
of attainable aims at the various levels
of study and the materials, techniques
and practices by means of which a resolution of the problems may
be sought.
This credit will focus on:
a) language learning and language teaching
b) teaching the productive skills
c) from language to "educazione linguistica"
d) methods and approaches to the teaching of Italian
e) communicative activities
f) receptive skills
g) class management and planning.
Recommended readings:
Balboni P., Didattica dell'italiano a stanieri
Balboni P., Dizionario di glottodidattica
Ciliberti A., Introduzione all a glottodidattica
Freddi G., Glottodidatica
Porcelli G.F., Principi di glottodidattica
Harmer J., The practice of English language teaching
IM 101 & IM 102: Struttura dell'unita
glottodidattica e tipologia degli esercizi.
Lecturer: Prof J Eynaud
Value of Unit: 2 credits
B.Ed (Hons) 3rd Years - Semester 2
Mode of Assessment: Assignment and Oral
These credits will focus on:
a) the didactic unit in correlation to the linguistic
experience
b) various appraoches to textual analysis
c) language exercises in relation to the classroom situation
and students' abilities.
d) language and cultural awareness.
Recommended readings
Eynaud J., Raccontiamo all'italiana series
D'Addio Colosimo W., I materiali linguistici nella didattica
delle lingue
Balboni P., Tecniche didattiche e processi d'apprendimento
linguistico
Diadori P.A., L'italiano televiso
Balboni P. Rete.
IM 105: La linguisitica
contrastiva e l'analisi degli errori.
Lecturer: Dr
J Eynaud Assessment:
research project in schools
Value of unit: 1 credit
B.Ed IVth year - 1st Semester.
This module will focus on:
a) contrastive analysis
b) evidence of mother-tongue
interference
c) the significance of error
d) the application of contrastive
information with specific tasks in schools.
Recommended readings:
Porcelli G., Educazione linguistica
e valutazione.
David A. Wilkins, Linguistica
e insegnamento delle lingue.
IM 107: Líapproccio multimediale
nellíapprendimento dellíitaliano come lingua straniera.
Lecturer: Dott Joseph
Chircop Assessment: Oral/Test
Value of unit: 1 credit
B.Ed IVth year - 1st
Semester
Course Objective and Description:
The multimedial approach
offers a variety of contemporary language use. Language teachers
are encouraged to use the various media in the target language as a useful
learning aid in their classrooms. This course is aimed at exploiting
mass-media in the teaching of Italian as a foreign language in Maltese
secondary schools.
Textbook:
Balboni Paolo, 1991, Tecniche
didattiche e processi díapprendimento linguisitco. Liviana Editrice,
Padova.
Gentili Cristiana, 1992,
I mass media nella lezione di lingua straniera, Istituto della Enciclopedia
Italiana.
Recommended reading:
Bonomi Ilaria, 1994, La lingua
dei giornali del Novecento, in Serianni, L. e Trifone, P. (a cura di),
Storia della lingua italiana, Vol.2, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 667-702.
Maraschio Nicoletta, 1987,
Il parlato radiofonico in diretta, in AA.VV. Gli italiani parlati.
Sondaggi sopra la lingua di oggi, Accademia della Crusca, Firenze, pp.
197-217.
Mengaldo Pier Vincenzo, 1994,
Storia della lingua italiana. Il Novecento, Il Mulino, Bologna (capitolo
5).
Perugini Marco, 1994, La
lingua della pubblicitaí, in Serianni, L. e Trifone, P. (a cura di), Storia
della lingua italiana, vol.2, Einaudi, Torino, pp. 599-616.
Raffaelli Sergio, 1994, Il
parlato cinematografico e televisivo in Serianni, L. e Trifone, P. (a cura
di), Storia della lingua italiana, vol.2, Einaudi, Torino, pp.271-290.
