L’insegnamento dell'italiano L2 ad allievi migranti con bisogni speciali

• Main Authors: Daloiso, Michele, Basso, Elisabetta
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2013-07-01
• Series: Educazione Linguistica Language Education
• Online Access: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/elle/2013/2/linsegnamento-dellitaliano-l2-ad-allievi-migranti-/

Second language teaching to foreign pupils with special needs is a research area which has received little attention so far, although in Italian schools there is an increasing number of foreign students with disabilities or learning difficulties. The attempt to build a theoretical framework suggests a traditional methodology such as Total Physical Response as potentially beneficial when a pathology is present. A case study based on the use of Total Physical Response with a foreign child suffering from Sturge Weber Syndrome provides evidence on a linguistic, cognitive and interactional level during the early stages of second language learning.