Un genere a sé. L'interazione verbale nei videocorsi dei manuali di italiano LS/L2

• This article applies a conversational approach to the analysis of the video courses from four L2/FL Italian textbooks currently on the market in order to explore their interactional characteristics. The qualitative analysis shows that these teaching materials share many traits with the so-called parlato filmico (virtual absence of all the phenomena characterizing spontaneous conversations, syntactically complete utterances etc.). In addition, some problematic aspects concerning the temporality and sequentiality of actions have been identified which make these interactions qualitatively different from natural ones. In general, comprehensibility seems to be privileged at the expense of plausibility in the production of these sit-coms. The results of this study show that these interactions are only partially similar to spontaneous ones, and thus not entirely suitable for educational use aimed at supporting the development of the learners’ interactional competence.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Italiano L2

videocorsi

analisi della conversazione

interazione

parlato filmico

språkdidaktik

Language Education

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)