Search results for " Second language acquisition"

Learner identity in EFL: An analysis of digital texts of identity in higher education

2018

This study explores learner identity (LI) in digital texts of identity (DTI) produced by college learners in English as a foreign language (EFL). In so doing, it aims to shed light on learners’ connections of their learning experiences across time and settings, and their impact on the various learner identities that form their LI. It also intends to elucidate how learners construct powerful learner identities in and through their digital discourses. To this end, 51 DTI were collected and scrutinized, following studies on LI, critical and poststructuralist discourse analysis, and “thematic” and “dialogic/performative” analysis within narrative research. Learners established connections betwe…

Nominal Agreement in L2 Speakers of Italian: Suggestions for a Teaching Plan

2021

International audience; This paper addresses the topic of adult acquisition of nominal agreement in Italian, a crucial issue in teaching Italian as Second/Foreign Language. Building on a corpus containing spontaneous and semi-spontaneous production data from two advanced L2-speakers of Italian, I show that nominal agreement can be problematic even in the last stages of the acquisition process. The discussion of the instances of missing agreement in the corpus suggests that these are not due to a missing knowledge of the agreement rules in Italian, but instead on processing and production. In particular, some contexts prove to be more difficult than others: gender agreement (i.e., agreement …

Ragionando sull’insegnamento dell’italiano come lingua non materna

2014

Un’idea di lingua: modelli, teorie e prospettive acquisizionali

2014

La questione del dialogo e della concreta cooperazione tra didattica della L2 e linguistica acquisizionale resta – nella pratica delle classi più che nell’ambito della riflessione teorica – aperta. E resta aperta, se non addirittura problematica, tanto sul piano metodologico (che cosa deve fare un docente per migliorare le capacita naturali di acquisizione?), quanto su quello dei contenuti linguistici che dovrebbero essere parte attiva della competenza del docente (che cosa deve sapere un docente d’italiano come lingua non materna?). L’articolo focalizza l’attenzione sul profilo delle competenze teorico-linguistiche del docente d’italiano come lingua non materna, così come esso è delineato …

Emerging Constructions in the L2 Italian Spoken by Low Literate Migrants

2019

The emergence of autonomous interlanguage constructions is widely recognised in the literature on L2 Italian. These constructions involve the overgeneralisation of functional forms learners are in the process of acquiring, e.g., siamo in siamo mangiare &lsquo