Lab. avanzato didattica lingue moderne - inglese

• Prerequisiti

  Buona conoscenza delle basi grammaticali, fonetiche e sintattiche della lingua inglese; adeguata capacità di comprensione di favole, storie, canzoni e filastrocche per bambine/i (English Language Level: B1-B2).

• Obiettivi formativi

  Il laboratorio intende stimolare una riflessione su alcuni aspetti di rilevante importanza nelle prassi educative e didattiche della lingua inglese e della letteratura inglese per l’infanzia, nell’ambito della scuola per l’infanzia e della scuola primaria.

• Programma del corso

  This course is thought-provoking. Its aim is to stimulate reflections on practical aspects about teaching/learning English and English Children’s Literature in our Italian scuola per l’infanzia and scuola primaria. Focus will be on second language teaching methodologies and practices for teaching young children. Following the guidelines within the framework of knowledge and skills required by this degree course, the module is designed to:
  Aims
  - Develop competence in English and in English language teaching.
  - Discuss epistemological aspects of language acquisition/learning. How does a child learn a first/second language? How can language teaching theories be useful in practice?
  - Identify practical implications of theories about Language Acquisition and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
  - Discuss teaching approaches (e.g. teacher-centred or student-centred approach, approccio ludico) .
  - Theories versus practices.
  - Provide tools and concepts for planning, teaching and assessment.
  - Develop ways to design a curriculum, a lesson plan, etc.
  Objectives
  Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:
  - increase competence of the language with a high level of metacompetence as well
  - criticise competing notions of language acquisition and second language acquisition
  - distinguish acquisition from learning
  - use what we know about learning for more effective language teaching
  - adopt existing teaching approaches/methods and develop new ones
  - analyse and evaluate classroom activities, language use and language development
  - select and use teaching material and stories
  - motivate children to learn a second language through stories, music and action games
  The following topics will be covered:
  - development of foreign language oral skills through “oral literature”
  - British Council’s Young Learners Centre in Paris and how they use children’s literature in their teaching of English: the role of stories and storytelling in language teraching http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/learning-english-through-childrens-literature
  - the role of translations
  - how can the internet help with teaching material
  - teaching methodologies: e.g. Total Physical Response
  - child as a language learner (3-5 or 5-10 year old children,)
  - phenomenon called the silent period
  - learning language through songs and short activities
  - how to choose and perform songs
  - assessment: finding ways of measuring speech production and perception (Portfolio Europeo delle Lingue: autovalutazione: modelli da esaminare e da creare durante il laboratorio)
  Guidelines for Workshops.
  - Il Portfolio Europeo delle Lingue (P.E.L.): gestione e valutazione nella continuità dei processi educativi.
  - Hocus & Lotus: Il modello del format narrativo per l'insegnamento della lingua inglese.
  - Gruppi di ricerca.
  - Letteratura per l’infanzia e testi bilingui.
  

• Testi (A)dottati, (C)onsigliati
  • 1.  (A) Gloria ALPINI Translating Social Action Texts Aras edizioni 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: Tutto
  • 2.  (A) Mary Wollstonecraft Storie originali di vita vera Aras edizioni 2009 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. da 1 a 3
  • 3.  (C) Lynne Cameron Teaching Languages to Young Learners Cup 2001 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. da 1 a 4 e cap. 7
  • 4.  (C) Anna Ciliberti Manuale di glottodidattica La nuova italia 1994 » Pagine/Capitoli: Capp. da 1 a 5
• Metodi didattici
  • lezione frontale esercitazioni gruppi di lavoro seminari
• Modalità di valutazione
  • scritto Elaborato finale (100%). Prova intermedia tesa a verificare le conoscenze acquisite e stimolare l'autovalutazione.
• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che possono essere utilizzate per l'attività didattica

  Inglese

• Lingue, oltre all'italiano, che si intende utilizzare per la valutazione

  Inglese

MATERIALI DIDATTICI