LEARNING AND TEACHING ITALIAN IN A PLURILINGUISTIC APPROACH

In this article I want to demonstrate how students of Italian as a Foreign Language, if speakers of Portuguese or other Romance languages, have a good opportunity to expand their knowledge by consciously transferring their abilities and speeding up their learning process. The Italian teachers, both native and non native speakers, are challenged to adopt a plurilinguistic approach. Plurilinguism is not a simple juxtaposition of different languages competences, but a rather complex capacity and critical knowledge that involves metalingual awareness, active learning and autonomy of the students. Teachers's role is to facilitate, create and plan classroom activities which aim at the development of learning strategies, starting from critical contact points, lexicon and phonology, in an active research approach.