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Blended CLIL e autonomia: un percorso didattico
per studenti cinesi di italiano L2
Anna De Meo, Maria De Santo, Giuseppina Vitale
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Abstract
In recent years, the Language Centre of the University of Naples "L'Orientale" (CILA)
had to face foreign students’ growing demands to learn Italian as a second language,
due to the various international exchange projects between "L’Orientale" and foreign
universities, above all Chinese. The Italian language courses organized by CILA,
originally aimed at the development of the four language skills, over the years have
been first directed towards Italian for Academic Purposes and then implemented
according to CLIL methodology. The goal of this paper is to describe a blended CLIL
course of Linguistics in Italian developed to help Chinese students to learn specific
subjects (Linguistics and Second Language Education) and to become proficient in
Italian. Moreover, the virtual course has been enhanced with a language area named
"Online Self-Access" designed to help students not only to learn Italian but also to
become autonomous. The course integrates face-to-face classroom instruction and online
learning. The virtual classroom, based on the Moodle platform, has been structured
around three main sections: thematic, social and linguistic. The first section presents the
contents of the course through video lessons with interactive multimedia activities that
students have to perform before, during and after the viewing of the video. The social
area promotes interaction between teachers and students through forums and chats.
The third section offers a virtual self-access centre with pathways and resources that
students can choose, according to their level and needs, to learn the Italian language.
Keywords: Blended CLIL, autonomia, italiano L2, didattica delle lingue
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