«Take a Back Seat»: due attività per l’insegnamento della microlingua straniera

The growing presence of foreign instrumentalists and singers in Italian conservatories calls for increased attention to the planning of support didactic activities aimed at teaching the micro-language of music in the context of Italian as a second language. The article describes two didactic activities that are easily replicable, also with different materials than those presented by way of example. Both assignments apply the principles of humanistic-affective language teaching and of cooperative learning to the Italian musical micro-language.