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Students will learn theories and techniques for activating pragmatic skills at school levels and will be able to

- use some scientific research methods and present the results adequately.
- apply theoretical knowledge for planning didactic activities.

Why do specific attitudes by foreign speakers appear clumsy or overly formal? Why is it difficult to understand the irony in an L2? Can foreign language didactics be helpful in these kinds of situations? What levels of pragmatic skills are required of an L2 learner?

These and other questions will be discussed in the course. "Teaching pragmatics in Italian as L2".
During the course, theories such as the speech act theory (Austin, 1976) and concepts such as the implicatures (Grice, 1975), the politeness (Brown & Levinson, 2002), the intercultural pragmatics (Bettoni, 2006), the relationship between pragmatics and the CEF (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), and the latest developments in teaching pragmatics (Nuzzo, 2013; Nuzzo & Gauci, 2012; Santoro & Vedder, 2016) will be addressed.

Through practical research, the course will address in-depth the teaching of writing skills in digital formats such as the email and the messages in WhatsApp (Brocca, submitted).

Learning by Teaching, Pair Feedback, Discussion in Plenum

Dossier

Austin, J. L. (1976). How to do things with words (2. ed.. ed.): London [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press.

Bettoni, C. (2006). Usare un'altra lingua : guida alla pragmatica interculturale (1. ed.. ed.): Roma

[u.a.] : Laterza.

Brocca, N. (submitted). Implizite Bedeutung in sozialen Netzwerken. Nachhaltige Bildung in L2

Französisch. In S. Kapelari, T. Schnabl, & J. Taglieber (Eds.), Interdisziplinäre fachdidaktische

Diskurse zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press (iup).

Brocca, N., Garassino, D., & Masia, V. (2016). Politici nella rete o nella rete dei politici? L'implicito

nella comunicazione politica italiana su Twitter. PhiN-Beiheft, 11, 68-79.

Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2002). Politeness : some universals in language usage (Reprint.. ed.):

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Pr.

Grice, P. H. (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics 3:

Speech Acts (pp. 41-58). New York: Academic Press.

Nuzzo, E. (2013). La pragmatica nei manuali d’italiano L2: una prima indagine sull’atto linguistico del

ringraziare. Revista De Italianística, 2 (26) 5-29. Retrieved from

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-8281.v2i26p5-29

Nuzzo, E., & Gauci, P. (2012). Insegnare la pragmatica in italiano L2 : recenti ricerche nella

prospettiva della teoria degli atti linguistici (1. ed.. ed.): Roma : Carocci.

Santoro, E., & Vedder, I. (2016). Pragmatica e interculturalità in italiano lingua seconda: Firenze :

Franco Cesati Editore.

Successful completion of Compulsory Module 1 Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) Subject: Italian.

This course is part of Compulsory Module 2 (“Competence Orientation in Modern Language Teaching and Learning”) Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) Subject: Italian. According to the study program, attending course PM2a before PM2b is highly recommended.

The admission to the course follows the conditions of admission (for information please consult the IMoF website: https://www.uibk.ac.at/imof/studium/).