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Marcello Amoruso
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Teenage and adult migrants with low and very low education level. Learners profile and proficiency assessment tools
2017
This article presents data and student experiences acquired within the frame of the inclusion project of the Italian Language School for Foreigners at the University of Palermo. The programme, established five years ago, has created and provided educational courses for adults and unaccompanied minors of low to very low schooling level, most of them between 16 and 18 years old. Le rapport présente les profils d’étudiants et les expériences acquises dans le cadre du “ Projet d’inclusion dans l’Ecole de langue pour l’italien Langue étrangère “ de l’université de Palerme. Le programme, créé il y a cinq ans, dispense des cours à des adultes et à des mineurs non accompagnés ayant un niveau d’inst…
Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask: Reciprocity and Storytelling as a Community Process
2020
AbstractIn this article, we discuss the discursive processes that surround storytelling of traumatic experiences in the case of minor asylum seekers involved in the recent migration flow to Italian ports. We argue that in order to understand not only how traumatic experiences are told but also how they are overcome, it is necessary to focus on the reciprocal relationships and impact of the members of the communities in which migrants are received. Such approach shifts the focus from the content of stories toward the protagonists of their tellings and from asylum seekers as ‘subjects’ to asylum seekers as members of communities to which they and others contribute. The article is based on nar…
Odysseus the traveler: Appropriation of a chronotope in a community of practice
2020
Abstract In this article we analyze the role of chronotopes in the formation and negotiation of identities. In particular, we consider the case of a superdiverse community of practice formed by minors asylum seekers and teachers in a school of Italian in Sicily, Italy. In our analysis we stress the role of reciprocity on the ways in which the chronotopic figure of Odysseus is reinterpreted and appropriated by members of this community. We look at how through a process of mutual engagement the indexical values associated with the figure of Odysseus are recontextualized by both teachers and students in light of their present experiences. Data for the article come from interviews, narratives a…