The study investigates the variation between spoken and written narratives produced by Italian native speakers and learners of Italian L2. In native speakers’ texts, the variation among modalities emerges at textual, syntactical ...

As well known, both in the case of acquiring an L! and, later, a foreign language (FL), many factors related to communicative, affective and relational contexts come into play. The existence in the historical-natural languages ...

The present paper, based on a French language course delivered to the students of “Management delle imprese internazionali” at the Parthenope University of Naples, aims to describe the educational path specifically created ...

This contribution deals with the complex issue of acquiring an adequate foreign language competence in specific professional domains. Ever increasingly, once their studies are over, foreign language graduates exploit their ...

This study starts from the “mise en situation” approach in the teaching/learning FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) process and the difficult balance between implicit and explicit lexicon acquisition. It focuses on organised ...

Learning linguistic and cultural Francophonie is very useful for Italian students, because the diatopic varieties of French and French-speaking cultures make it possible to study the diversity of French-speaking countries, to ...

The paper provides an outline of the role of technology in some of the most important frameworks, standards and portfolios in use for language education. An analysis of these texts is particularly useful to understand the ...

The latest research in the field of language acquisition has proved extremely fruitful in giving interesting insights to foreign and second language teaching. Cognitive linguistics that focuses on the symbolic nature of ...

The paper discusses the role of variation in L2 learning and, more particularly, the influence of diamesic variation and variation in the communicative context, on oral and written performance in Italian L2. In order to ...