{"title":"La didattica della letteratura inglese nell’università italiana ai tempi della pandemia. Uno studio di caso in una classe del corso di laurea di base in “Lingue” dell’Università “Federico II”","authors":"Cesare Pozzuoli","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17892","url":null,"abstract":"L’articolo propone una riflessione sul profondo processo di mutazione avvenuto nella didattica universitaria della letteratura negli ultimi anni, interessata da un ricorso massiccio alla didattica digitale e da remoto (Giusti 2019). Si è osservato in particolare un’accelerazione marcata di tale processo di mutazione dovuta al diffondersi della pandemia da Covid-19. L’analisi, divisa in due sezioni, servendosi di una prospettiva sia psico-pedagogica, sia di uno sguardo didattico, vedrà nella prima parte una riflessione sulle nuove forme di insegnamento letterario universitario, con particolare riferimento al rapporto tra il mutato status culturale della letteratura, didattica da remoto e nativi digitali (Bertoni 2018); tenendo conto del contesto di una società post-moderna (Marone e Striano 2012). Nella seconda parte si analizzerà il case study di un corso universitario di letteratura inglese svolto attraverso lo strumento del questionario validato. L’efficacia della didattica da remoto verrà testata sulle risposte di un campione rappresentativo di studenti in età compresa tra i 20 e i 23 anni frequentanti il secondo anno di un corso di laurea di base in lingue. Sulla base dei dati raccolti si vaglieranno delle ipotesi di sviluppo per nuove prospettive epistemiche per la didattica delle discipline letterarie, con particolare riferimento alle letterature straniere e anglofone.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vigdis Hjorth, Eredità","authors":"F. Turri","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17905","url":null,"abstract":"Vigdis Hjorth, Eredità (Roma, Fazi Editore, 2020, 373 pp. ISBN 9788893254595) \u0000di Francesca Turri","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48397437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Didattica a distanza di Lingua tedesca in ambiente universitario","authors":"Stefanie Karin Vogler","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17882","url":null,"abstract":"Negli ultimi due anni, la pandemia ha obbligato docenti e studenti ad adeguarsi a una nuova forma di didattica a distanza anche a livello universitario. Il contributo muove dall’esperienza nella Scuola di Economia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, dove l’inglese è la prima lingua obbligatoria, mentre il tedesco viene offerto in alternativa al francese e allo spagnolo. Insegnare una materia la cui caratteristica principale è la comunicazione in un contesto che per la sua stessa natura pone dei forti limiti all’interazione in quanto i partecipanti (sia docenti che studenti) rimangono fisicamente lontani fra di loro, presenta delle notevoli sfide. Attraverso esempi emersi nell’aula virtuale vengono esaminati i problemi riscontrati e le soluzioni sperimentate in diciotto mesi di didattica soltanto da remoto. L’analisi degli aspetti critici e degli elementi positivi emersi da questa esperienza porta a riflettere su alcuni concetti basilari dell’apprendimento autonomo e, di conseguenza, sul ruolo dei docenti e dei discenti. L’obiettivo è di esaminare le modalità con cui integrare tali concetti in un ambiente istituzionale quale l’università, per formulare proposte concrete per lo studio del tedesco sia a distanza che in presenza dopo il rientro (forse anche solo parziale) nell’aula reale.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48000579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autonomies/Monotonies: Teaching Languages before and after the Covid Era","authors":"Monika Hrebackova, M. Štefl","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17877","url":null,"abstract":"In search for a constructive response to the Covid pandemic, which exacerbated rather than caused the current crisis of university education, this article reports an implementation process of student-oriented teaching practices into an ESP curriculum of management-oriented study at a technological university, i.e., in an interdisciplinary environment, which, perhaps paradoxically, struggles with interdisciplinary approaches, deindividuation, compartmentalization of learning, and, consequently, with varying degrees of student engagement. Exploring students’ (in-)ability and (un-)willingness to become autonomous learners in the Covid era and beyond, the authors rethink students’ exposure to pedagogical tools and methods designed to foster student autonomy and combat instructional monotony including networking, telecollaboration, language coaching, alternative assessment methods, and discuss consumption of online education in general. Face to face with the volatile dynamics of technologically mediated interactions and evolving teacher/student roles, the article critically assesses the growing emphasis on students’ autonomy which is – much like the ability to cope without social contact – often taken for granted rather than systematically trained.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46571102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Teaching of Chinese as a Second Language in an Emergency Situation: Methods and Findings","authors":"Valentina Ornaghi, Ching-yi Amy Juan","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17880","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to identify problems teaching Chinese as a second language during the unexpected sudden lockdown in 2020 and then to propose strategies for similar future situations and better ways of planning remote teaching programs. The Covid-19 lockdown caused courses at Italian universities that are normally carried out face-to-face to be moved online. This affected language courses particularly severely. This article is focused on the experiences of staff and students involved in three Chinese language courses at two state universities in northern Italy. Background literature about online teaching is analyzed first, then the online teaching methods and tools that were used in the emergency are described and student survey results are assessed. The results are used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency online teaching provision. The possibility of using self-learning material and watching video-lessons was appreciated, but one of the main drawbacks was the lack of oral and written interaction. Actions for future development are proposed here. These include using asynchronous and synchronous tools to promote active language learning and interaction. An innovative proposal for a long-term teaching program is the flipped classroom, which would allow students to undertake self-learning at home but with a focus on interactions and practical activities during face-to-face classes.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42805391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-Learning and Arabic in the Age of Covid-19: Rethinking the Learning of Vocabulary","authors":"C. Solimando","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17884","url":null,"abstract":"Since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, Italian universities have been faced with a completely new situation, generally marked by a certain backwardness as regards distance language teaching. This paper describes the impact that distance learning has had on language teaching, particularly on the teaching of lexis in the first year of a three-year degree course in Arabic at Roma Tre University, Italy. Learning vocabulary is a vital part of mastering a language, and experience has shown that students often do not work methodically on this aspect, which leads to problems with listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Online teaching has only aggravated this situation and, consequently, new approaches and methodologies are required. This case study presents solutions that have been found in adopting MOODLE, the open-source platform that provides students with a dynamic instrument aimed at facilitating learning. In particular, it describes and evaluates the use of the glossary in MOODLE to help first-year students learn Arabic vocabulary. The students had to add 20 vocabulary items to the glossary each week, and contributions had to follow a certain format that required morphological awareness of the main Arabic lexical structures. The monitoring system whereby the teacher could view student activities further bolstered the learner-centered methodology upon which the whole system is based. Results showed that all students contributed to creating an instrument that promoted independent learning. Overall, the MOODLE glossary was a useful tool for vocabulary learning and recommendations for its successful implementation are reported. This case study will be of interest to language teachers, as well as to learners and instructors dealing with specialized terminology.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45584002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Wikivoyage to…” Making the most of Emergency Remote Teaching for the development of transversal skills","authors":"M. Gatto, Francesco Meledandri","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17886","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of a growing tendency towards teaching practices based on digital innovation, which the Covid-19 outbreak has further accelerated, experimenting with cooperative writing/translation projects based on Wiki technology has started to attract the attention of university scholars. A number of projects have thus emerged that exploit the Wikimedia ecosystem as a multilingual working environment for online authentic tasks, which are particularly appropriate for a new generation of “digital natives” who have been facing (forced) distant learning activities. Indeed, experience shows that the very myth of the digital natives’ fluency in the use of ICT is to be questioned, and the need for the development of ICT literacy and related transversal competences is strongly advocated. Against this background, the article reports on a project completed with distance learning-based activities at the University of Bari: “Transl/Editathon@Uniba. A Wikivoyage To Puglia”. The project had a twofold aim: it channelled resources with different expertise and knowledge backgrounds to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to tourism discourse, translation skills and IT competence; it aimed at raising awareness in students that a cooperation-based approach in a digital environment can enhance their transversal skills. The students’ ability in narrating their territory via Wikivoyage, and their feeling part of a virtual community, was the project’s added value in a time when distance(s) in geographical and interpersonal terms seem to have been loosening any sense of belonging.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42323885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staging (E)motions: The Importance of Elvira Notari’s ‘city films’ for Twentieth-Century Immigrant and Female Audiences","authors":"Eva Pelayo Sañudo","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17900","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the significant social changes registered by woman film director Elvira Notari in her city films, particularly regarding the position of women and Italian immigrant audiences in the US. It thus suggests new readings of Notari’s work through the concepts of urban capabilities and the flâneuse. As most of her original dense archive has been almost lost, only the extant feature film È Piccerella as well as secondary material and scholarship retrieving her work will be used to analyze the contributions of the director to cultural immigration, gender representation and film history.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49211970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Révisions transatlantiques : une expérience de télécollaboration entre l’Université Ca’ Foscari et Bentley University","authors":"Y. Hamon","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17879","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to present the ins and outs of a telecollaboration project between an American university (Bentley University) and Ca' Foscari University. This project targets oral production and revision skills around an authentic language object, the video CV. Between March and April 2021, the author and a colleague from Bentley University set up a collaborative video CV revision project between 10 American FLE students and 13 students from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy (CEFR level B1-B2 for both groups). After a preparation phase started in December 2020 on both sides of the Atlantic, the device was implemented with work phases in synchronous and asynchronous modality. First, we will provide a theoretical framework concerning the use of telecollaboration mediated by computer for didactics of French as a foreign language. Then, we will go into more detail on the organisation, the setting up of the project and the modalities, the course of the exchanges and the tools used. Finally, we will present the first results obtained through this project and raise some issues about some negative outcomes.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing Migrant Memories: Lampedusa's Fragmented Archives","authors":"A. Di Maio","doi":"10.54103/2035-7680/17872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/17872","url":null,"abstract":"The small island of Lampedusa, a key destination of the Central Mediterranean Route connecting Africa to Italy, offers a special observatory on the contemporary trans-Mediterranean odyssey of migrants, although often transformed into a “border spectacle.” Upon landing, migrants are stripped of their belongings, as these are impounded by the authorities. Such an act of dispossession is intended to deprive them of their histories, family ties and cultural identity. Photographer Mario Badagliacca has portrayed a selection of these lost and retrieved items in his work Fragments (2013). Each object reveals expectations, fears, desires, endurance, but cannot tell a full story. They are fragments of an open-ended narrative that requires to be framed and told, if we wish to gain a better understanding of the Black Mediterranean, its history, and consequences. What remains untold can only be imagined. Writer Maaza Mengiste imagines what lies behind two smudged photographs portrayed by Badagliacca. As always, the force of imagination provides signification, solidarity, and survival in the fractured history of the African Diaspora.","PeriodicalId":42544,"journal":{"name":"Altre Modernita-Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41655945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}