This paper, through the case of Italian-Slovenian border, analyses the needs as well as new visions of NL teaching and learning in border regions also in relation to the need of assigning National minorities new meanings and renewed functions.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2594515Organisation of the international conference Societies and Spaces in Contact: Between Convergence and Divergence (2019 ; Portorož, Trst) and editing of the Book of abstracts.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 301328128The Koper Research Center (SI), the University of Ljubljana (SI), the University of Zagreb (HR) and the University of Graz (AT) organized a two-day international conference on 27 and 28 October 2017, which focused on the relationship between language and culture in the fields of cultural studies, tourism, language learning and teaching and literature. The publication includes the conference program and summaries of all papers: plenary lectures, lectures and workshops. They are presented in four sections: 1. Language and culture in the framework of cultural studies, 2. Language and culture in tourism, 3. Multilingualism and culture in language learning, 4. Language and culture in literature.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 292450304The paper - presented at the III Convegno Internazionale di Linguistica e Glottodidattica Italiana “L’italiano in contesti plurilingui: contatto, acquisizione, insegnamento”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Romanisches Seminar, 11-13 October 2018 - describes a new methodological proposal originating from a doctoral research (Cavaion, 2015) that started the definition and study of the CoBLaLT- Contact Based (Neighboring) Language Learning and Teaching methodology which wants to introduce an innovative approach for teaching Italian in the majority language primary schools on the Slovenian coast based on the methodological use of both virtual and real contacts between school children on the Slovenian coast and children from Italian schools in the province of Trieste (the latter learn the Slovenian language).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2550483The positive role of L1- that is the language of schooling - in FL learning is gaining increasingly importance within the studies of applied linguistics which sustain that L1 has been stigmatised and its use wrongly limited in the FL classroom (Cook, 2001, 2002; Macaro, 2001; Levine, 2011, 2015). Along the Italian-Slovenian border, 8 classes of pupils aged between 11 and 15 years old, attending compulsory lower secondary school and learning each the language of the other - namely their neighbouring language - twinned in a Contact-Based-(Neighbouring)-Language-Learning-and-Teaching (CoBLaLT, Cavaion, 2015) project, have tackled one-year regularly discussions. Results speak of positive acceptance on the behalf of pupils regarding the proposal to introduce regularly discussions into their FL classroom. The results represent useful data for the construction of effective language planning and curricula.
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