Laboratorio: l'apprendimento delle lingue straniere: un "gioco interiore"
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The workshop THE LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES: AN "INTERIOR GAME" links the prison context to the university context, in terms of collaboration, training and skills enhancement in a two-way exchange between contexts and students. The proposal provides a practical pathway to become aware of one's personal potential in the field of foreign language learning, to support motivation and generally increase resilience to cope with the course of study. Various skills are thus stimulated through a series of experiential and public engagement meetings to be held at a prison in the hinterland of Milan. This is a precious and rare opportunity for a true encounter with otherness and the development of inter- and intra-personal reflection.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the activity, students will have:
- Experienced a public engagement and service learning activity
- Developed a high degree of educational and civic awareness
- Participated in the important role that prisons play in (re)education
- Experienced a public engagement and service learning activity
- Developed a high degree of educational and civic awareness
- Participated in the important role that prisons play in (re)education
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The seminars will focus on the following topics
- The inner game, an innate potential within us: the individual's resources (emotional, intrapersonal and existential, interpersonal intelligence)
- Foreign language learning: a pleasure or a cause of stress and fear? Xenoglossophobia, failure and error
- Motivation and perseverance in the study of foreign languages: learning to learn; meaningful learning; the concept of "competence"
- Autonomous learning: study organisation skills and the Portfolio
- The power of the group: the peer concept
- Foreign language learning in the reference frameworks (CEFR and Companion Volume): the learner as social agent
- Study strategies and materials for foreign languages: principles of immersive learning, experiential learning traits, multilingualism and multiculturalism
- Active learning (processes and not (only) outcomes): life-long learning
- The inner game, an innate potential within us: the individual's resources (emotional, intrapersonal and existential, interpersonal intelligence)
- Foreign language learning: a pleasure or a cause of stress and fear? Xenoglossophobia, failure and error
- Motivation and perseverance in the study of foreign languages: learning to learn; meaningful learning; the concept of "competence"
- Autonomous learning: study organisation skills and the Portfolio
- The power of the group: the peer concept
- Foreign language learning in the reference frameworks (CEFR and Companion Volume): the learner as social agent
- Study strategies and materials for foreign languages: principles of immersive learning, experiential learning traits, multilingualism and multiculturalism
- Active learning (processes and not (only) outcomes): life-long learning
Prerequisites for admission
To be a Master's degree student in European and non-European Languages and Literature with Didactics or Methodology courses included in the study plan or to be a restricted university student; willingness to transfer (also with other companions) in order to reach the prison.
Preferred requirements: openness to encountering diversity and interest in learning foreign languages.
Preferred requirements: openness to encountering diversity and interest in learning foreign languages.
Teaching methods
Seminar lectures and experiential sharing.
Teaching Resources
None.
Assessment methods and Criteria
For the acquisition of 3 cfu the student must achieve a commitment of approximately 80 hours in total (as stipulated by the Corso di Studi), 20 of which must be attended. The workshop includes a final exam to be carried out in Cooperative Learning.
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