Chiara Terzolo
The class is plaural-Ita: plurilingual practices, Universal Design for Learning and metapragmatic skills for inclusive and multimodal teaching at the University for Foreigners of Perugia
The project investigates how plurilingual practices, principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and metapragmatic reflection activities can promote the inclusion, participation, and development of the linguistic-communicative competence of international students in the Italian Language and Culture Courses at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.
Through action research in courses aimed at different target groups (FAMI projects, ordinary courses, MarcoPolo courses, online courses, etc.), the project analyzes the educational and socio-affective impact of coordinated interventions: UDL educational pathways to make inputs and tasks accessible to students with different cognitive styles and needs; plurilingual and translanguaging tasks to value learners’ native languages and integrate them into the process of learning Italian; intercultural metapragmatic analysis activities, aimed at developing awareness of Italian sociopragmatic norms and of the plurilingual interactions that characterize international and multicultural environments.
Interessi di ricerca
The study and research activity focuses on teaching Italian as a second or foreign language (L2/FL), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), multilingualism and pluralistic approaches, intercultural pragmatics, and technology-mediated language learning.