2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

Linguistico-filologico-letterario

2°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

DELLA PUTTA PAOLO ANTONIO (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 group 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).
Students not attending the course have to add another article chosen from a list.

There will be an oral exam about the contents and the terminology of the course. The student must also prove that he/she has learned how to interpret interlanguage data.
The programme of the exam for foreign students can be at least partially adapted and some readings in other languages can substitute readings in Italian, with the teacher's agreement.