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Nowadays current migration streams are changing the scenario  of educational system in Italy as well, and the increase of multicultural classes with different learners without any or poor competence in Italian language is an issue teachers and educators have to face. The acquisition of a basic vocabulary and social communicative functions in Italian language is mandatory and not really easy in such a heterogeneous group. Providing a support in the acquisition of the mother tongue of the country of arrival is necessary although  it takes time and  is not enough to fill the initial gap among learners. In this case, not only a peer-to-peer strategy and classroom asset but also a CLIL approach based on ICT can prove to be  a successful methodology. ICT language is universally shared and action based, moreover the support of free online translation software is helpful. In several years of my  experience of ICT based methodology in teaching foreign languages this approach has proved to be effective  to promote the acquisition of foreign languages . In this way  applying it to improve competence in Italian language in foreign learners from abroad atteding my classes has reduced the initial language gap more effectively. In this  paper some examples of learning units are provided.