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 paper will propose an analysis of false friends between English and Italian gestural idioms, that is cases where in the two languages a seemingly identical idiom exists that describes or refers to the same gesture ...

The paper presents the educational pathway of a course in English Language and Linguistics for Master students of Political Science. Based on the study of irony, satire and parody applied to political and media discourse, ...

Phraseological False Friends represent a less researched phenomenon than the non-equivalence of simple lexemes. From a foreign language didactic point of view, however, they are relevant, because phraseologisms, especially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 issue of learning one or more cultures that might coexist within a foreign language and culture as complementing the process of acquisition of a foreign language has received considerable critical attention. This is ...

The study of morphosyntactic development in children has a long tradition in both first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition theories and literatures. In particular, «researchers of child language acquisition have ...