2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

2°

(26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CHINI MARINA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Basic notions of sociolinguistics and of linguistics

The course aims at framing second language acquisition in its external social factors and at discussing its main internal principles and factors in order to help students understand the phenomenon of second language acquisition.

1. Introduction to the study of second language acquisition
2. The concept of interlanguage and the main theoretical approaches to second language acquisition (SLA)
3. Linguistic and non linguistic factors of SLA and of its variability
4. Strategies and stages of language acquisition
5. Main features of SLA in the classroom
6. Some aspects of Italian as a second language

Lectures and analysis of L2 data in different European languages

Banfi E. (a cura di) L’altra Europa linguistica. Varietà di apprendimento e interlingue nell'Europa contemporanea. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1993.
Bettoni C. Imparare un’altra lingua. Bari, Laterza, 2001.
Chini M. Che cos’è la linguistica acquisizionale. Roma, Carocci, 2005.
Consani C. et al. (a c. di) Alloglossie e comunità alloglotte nell’Italia contemporanea. Roma, Bulzoni, 2009.
Giacalone Ramat A. (a c. di) L’apprendimento spontaneo di una seconda lingua. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986.
Dulay H./Burt M./Krashen S. La seconda lingua. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985 [orig. ed. Language two, 1982].
Klein W. Second language acquisition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Valentini A. Lingue e interlingue dell'immigrazione in Italia, Linguistica e Filologia 21, 2005, 195-208.
For the exam the students (besides their course notes) have to study:
- "Introduzione" of Giacalone Ramat (1986),
- Chini (2005),
- one chap. in Banfi (1993) concerning the language studied (Italian, German, French, English as an L2),
- Valentini (2005),
- one paper in Giacalone Ramat (1986) or in the "parte III" of Consani et al. (2009) or one chap. of Bettoni (2001), of Klein (1986) or of Dulay et al. (1982/1985).

There will be an oral exam about the contents of the course. The programme of the exam for foreign pupils can be at least partially adapted and some readings in other languages can substitute readings in Italian, with the teacher's agreement.