SAIL

Studi sull’apprendimento e l’insegnamento linguistico

La linguistica educativa tra ricerca e sperimentazione

Scritti in onore di Carmel Mary Coonan

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Abstract
The volume collects the contributions of academics from various Italian universities who have worked with Carmel Mary Coonan throughout her career at Ca’ Foscari University. Starting from the themes that have characterised Carmel’s research interests, including Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), professional development for language teachers and action research practice, the volume opens up to original methodological reflections and new lines of research in the field of educational linguistics. The relevance and variety of the studies here described confirm the lively and dynamic character of research and experimentation that shape our discipline. By questioning different language learning environments (both inside and outside language classroom), educational contexts (from kindergarten to university and beyond) and subjects (students as well as teachers), the volume highlights significant gains achieved in the field of language teaching and learning so far. At the same time, however, it makes clear the urge to further boost plurilingualism in language education, a goal that Carmel has tenaciously pursued throughout her whole career.

Keywords Classroom-based research • Definition • Upper secondary school • CEFR • Languages for specific purposes • Academic life • Emotions • Italian as a Second language • Lavoro • Intercomprehension (IC) • Lower secondary school • CLIL teacher profile • Specialised terminology • Foreign language familiarisation • Glottotecnologie • Collaborative Professional Development • Museum • Minority language teaching • Acquisition • Insegnamento delle lingue minoritarie • Vehicular language • FL teaching • Politica scolastica • Core and non-core subjects • English Medium Instruction (EMI) • Italian as a Foreign language • Teachers’ training • Autobiography • Content-specific learning • Language learning and teaching • University students • Input flood • Plurilingual approaches • L2/LS teaching • Adulti immigrati • Classroom interactions • Action-research • Pandemic effects • EMI (English Medium Instruction) • Apprendimento • Needs analysis • Online interaction • Academic Lecturing • Teacher cognition • Glottogeragogic model • Educational linguistics • English Lingua Franca (ELF) • Mentors and Masters • Language education • Language teacher professional development • Methodology • Educazione plurilingue • Multimodality • Digital resources • Language teaching • Academic careers • Knowledge sharing • Argumentative skills • Out-of-school • Implicit/explicit teaching • Native-speakerism • Svantaggio • Motivation • Higher education • Teacher training • Cooperative learning • Language learning • MALL (Mobile-assisted language learning) • Phonology • Object-based • Good practice • Nursery school • CLIL • Multiliteracies • Approcci e metodi glottodidattici • Profilo del docente di lingue • Memory • Case study • CLIL classroom discourse • Cimbrian language • Socio-constructivist theories • Social mediation methodologies • Academic policy • Discourse markers (DM) • Horizontal learning • Norvegese • Plurilingualism • Educational Linguistics

Thema codes CJAD • JN • 1DST-IT-NVE

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-683-1 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-683-1 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-684-8 | Number of pages 256 | Published April 28, 2023 | Submitted Jan. 9, 2023 | Language it, en

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