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University for Foreigners of Perugia has been recently involved in a vast process of digitalization, also as a result of the challenges of the pandemic and the lessons learnt to be implemented in the post-pandemic era, or “new normal” [1] [2]. The main missions of the University include the spreading of Italian language and culture all over the world and the teaching of Italian to foreigners, both for professional and personal purposes. An online platform addressed to the teaching of Italian has been designed, implemented, and enhanced with videos and materials produced by the same University in the past. The courses, delivered on the University Moodle platform, are aligned with the CEFRCV and adopt an innovative and dynamic approach, based on self-study and self-assessment with the support of professors and tutors.

The courses have been planned and implemented by taking into account the sillabi and corpora produced at the University for Foreigners of Perugia in latest years [3] [4].

The courses are based on audio and video storytelling, and involve the learners in authentic and real tasks, according to the Action-Oriented Approach described in the CEFRCV [5] [6].

Main features of the courses will be highlighted, with particular reference to some advanced functions, such as immersive environments in 3D and the use of Artificial Intelligence. Preliminary results of the ongoing experimentation of Artificial Intelligence applied to the learning and teaching of Italian as a Second or Foreign language will also be mentioned.

References

[1] Cinganotto L. (2023a). Learning technologies for ELT during the pandemic in Italy: Teachers’ attitudes, in (edited by) Stella Kourieos and Dimitris Evripidou, “Language Teaching and Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Shift to a New Era”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

[2] Malagnini F., Cinganotto L.  (2023). Nuove opportunità del digitale nell’era del “new normal”, in “Strategie per lo sviluppo della qualità nella didattica universitaria”, Pensa Editore: Bari (in press).

[3] Spina S. (2014). Il Perugia Corpus: una risorsa di riferimento per l’italiano. Composizione, annotazione e valutazione, in (a cura di) R. Basili, A. Lenci, B. Magnini, “Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it” 2014. vol. 1, p. 354-359, Pisa, Pisa University Press.

[4] Spina, S., Fioravanti, I., Forti, L., Santucci, V., Scerra, A., Zanda, F. (2022), Il corpus CELI: una nuova risorsa per studiare l’acquisizione dell’italiano L2, “Italiano LinguaDue”, 14(1), 116- 138.

[5] Piccardo E., North B., The Action-oriented Approach: A Dynamic Vision of Language Education, Multilingual Matters, 2019.

[6] Cinganotto L. (2023b). L’approccio orientato all’azione del “Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue, Volume Complementare” nella didattica digitale dell’Italiano L2/LS: scenari e attività didattiche nella percezione degli studenti, “Italiano LinguaDue”, V.15 n.1 (2023).