Marina Chini

ELEMENTI UTILI PER UNA DIDATTICA DELL’ITALIANO L2 ALLA LUCE DELLA RICERCA ACQUISIZIONALE

L’articolo presenta alcune riflessioni circa il contributo che gli studi acquisizionali (in particolare sull’italiano L2) possono fornire alla didattica di L2. Dopo alcune precisazioni generali che contestualizzano il tema, alla luce del recente costrutto della “didattica acquisizionale”, si esemplificano possibili applicazioni degli esiti della ricerca sull’acquisizione della morfosintassi nell’italiano L2 e si riflette su come il docente possa modulare l’input e il feedback forniti agli apprendenti in vista del potenziamento della loro valenza didattico-acquisizionale. Useful elements in Italian L2 teaching in light of acquisitional research The article presents some reflections about possible contributions of (Italian) second language research to L2 teaching. After some general contextualising remarks, some applications of research results about L2 Italian morphosyntax in teaching are discussed and finally some hints about teachers’ input manipulation and feedback to learners are given in order to maximise their usefulness.

Italien et suisse allemand dans des familles bilingues au Tessin: contact pacifique ou conflit latent

The aim of this research is to examine certain linguistic and attitudinal aspects of contact between Italian (ΓΓ) and Swiss German (SA) in the Lugano area (in the canton of Ticino in Souther Switzerland) with a view to individuating the more or less competitive modalities of this contact. The method of family Interviews has been used (qualitative enquiry) integrated with quantitative material in order to discover linguistic contact data (lexical transfers, code-switching) and the representations and stereotypes bilinguals have with respect to their experience of emigration and their language behavior. It can be shown that the position of national supremacy of SA within Switzerland has fewer repercussions on the life-styles and linguistic habits of bilinguals than one might expect and that several factors work in favor of the italophone environment and the reduction of the functional rendering of SA, particularly in the second generation, but also in the first Swiss German generation; we are thus witnessing a rather farreaching linguistic and cultural restructuring process.