Second language learning for vulnerable adult migrants: The case of the Italian public school

• Authors: Igor Deiana , Stefania Spina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Over the last years, thousands of asylum seekers and refugees have arrived in Italy, including a large number of teenagers without any adult caregivers and women. A significant partof them is placed in the Italian language courses for foreigners organised by the Provincial Centre for Adult Education, commonly called CPIA (Centro Provinciale per l’Istruzione degli Adulti). Thispaper addresses the exploration of the language testing and assessment of the courses organized by this institution. With the aim of evaluating these aspects, the paper concentrates on the CPIA,its teachers, and its students. Focusing on CPIA’s language courses, we investigate the language testing and assessment carried out at the beginning and at the end of the language courses. Thanks to these observations, the paper tries to identify some critical aspects and to understand their causes.

Keywords

EN

adult foreign language education; vulnerable adult migrants; second language adult learners; illiterate students; teaching Italian as a second language; second language teachers; language teacher training; language testing and assessment

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 67-81

Dates

published

2021-01-10

Contributors

author

Igor Deiana

• Università per Stranieri di Perugia

author

Stefania Spina

• Università per Stranieri di Perugia

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2020.47.2.02