Catalogue - Didactic Methodology - APPRENDIMENTO LINGUISTICO E COSTRUZIONE DELL'IDENTITA' - Le Monnier

Edited by Elisabetta Jafrancesco

APPRENDIMENTO LINGUISTICO E COSTRUZIONE DELL'IDENTITA'
PLURILINGUE: ASPETTI PSICOLINGUISTICI

Papers from the XVII Nation Conference ILSA, Florence, 22 November 2008

Who it’s for

Experts of modern language teaching, teachers of foreign languages (in Italy and abroad), directors of Italian and foreign institutions which offer language courses, trainers of foreign language teachers operating in Italy or abroad, staff of public or private institutions working in the field of personnel selection and of entry-level training programmes and managers of public or private institutions aware of the importance of multilingual education and of the beneficial social resource that is language knowledge.

what does it mean to reach the goal of not only multilingual competence, but also multicultural, as has been indicated by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages? The XVII National Convention ILSA, through the contributions of the speakers, has investigated the psycholinguistic aspects of second language learners, that is the cognitive and emotional functions which accompany the learning process. As has been affirmed by Bettoni, language learning is above all a cognitive job, which learning to live in another culture through language (therefore use the language effectively and appropriately) is a prevalently emotional process. The work at the convention also concentrated on an examination of techniques of the foreign language learning methodologies which most responded to the cognitive and emotional needs of language learners.

Contributers:

Caterina Cangià, Duccio Demetrio, Edoardo Masciello, Caterina Pagliasso, Sabine Pirchio, Fiorenza Quercioli, Pasquale Rinaldi, Camilla Salvi, Traute Taeschner.