Transnational Italian in Higher Education
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Il progetto TRANSIT (Italiano Transnazionale nell’istruzione superiore) ha l’obiettivo di sostenere, sviluppare e rafforzare programmi di alta formazione e ricerca nell’ambito degli studi e dell’insegnamento dell’italiano, concentrandosi su due ambienti socio-culturali diversi e complementari: (a) America del Sud: aree in cui l’italiano è presente nel repertorio delle comunità multiculturali, in particolare Argentina, Brasile e Colombia; (b) Estremo Oriente: aree in cui l’interesse verso la lingua e la cultura italiana è cresciuto negli ultimi decenni, cioè Cina, Corea del Sud e Vietnam.
Purpose:
The objectives the project intends to achieve are the following: 1. Enhancing scientific collaboration between Italian and international scholars in the domain of educational linguistics (e.g. teaching of Italian language and culture to foreigners, standard Italian and sociolinguistic variations) and sociolinguistics (contact between Italian and indigenous languages, “local” varieties of Italian and their relation to standard Italian). The aim is to develop new research perspectives in Italian studies. 2. Supporting and developing Bachelor, Master and PhD students’ mobility from foreign partner institutions to Italy and vice versa, aiming: (1) for foreign students: improving their language skills and their knowledge of Italian culture, and allowing them to reinforce their relational network with Italian people; (2) for Italian students: experiencing strategies for learning and teaching Italian abroad, improving their knowledge of foreign languages which are in contact with Italian in the different countries. The project also intends to reinforce and promote double-degree agreements, mutual-learning projects, especially with South-American countries, which implies covering all mobility costs, as otherwise students cannot access mobility programmes. 3. Supporting and developing scholars’ mobility from Italy to foreign partner institutions for training Italian teachers abroad and collaborating with them. Italian teachers/instructors abroad usually do not receive any specific or sufficient teacher training and therefore their teaching methodology is outdated. 4. Supporting and developing Italian teachers’ mobility from foreign partner institutions to Italy to attend specific language teaching training in an Italian-speaking environment.