CLIL can play an important role in enhancing multilingualism and international mobility. In order to efficiently integrate language and content in the learning process, multilingualism should not be conceived as using the foreign language as a vehicular tool rather by establishing a sound relationship between language and the typical discipline discourse(s) and genre(s). Such approach would imply the ability to work on content in several languages and across cultures (pluriculturalism). Currently, however, CLIL teaching is still mainly adopting a structuralist conception of language, which is a limited one as compared to the long-term goals of the CLIL methodology. It is the authors’s opinion that shifting CLIL teaching towards a genre-based approach could offer a virtuous development of the methodology and promote a truly integrated content-language framework within a ‘different’ language-culture that takes into account the socio-pragmatic aspects of communication in any text. Not to mention that it would represent a better match with the glottodidactic references of the CEFR that have been a shared European standard since 2000. By proposing textuality in its specific identity (genres), which includes communicative factors linked to the addressed audience, one immediately presents discourse as an affordance: a special form with peculiar features that affords and favours a particular kind of communication over others through a language-culture shaped by and shaping a specific community otherwise inaccessible. The essay presents and discusses a case study (CLIL course 2021): a teacher-training course in which the concept of gender played a central role in introducing and guiding into CLIL methodology. In particular, it is intended to reflect on both the positive potential and the critical issues that emerged from adopting a genre-based approach in order to address some of the implications, between advantages and disadvantages as emerged in the case study or those that can be expected in preparing teachers for CLIL methodology.
Il CLIL può giocare un ruolo importante nella valorizzazione del plurilinguismo e della mobilità internazionale. Nell’ottica d’integrare lingua e contenuto nel percorso di apprendimento, la dimensione del plurilinguismo non si limita all’uso veicolare della lingua straniera rispetto a una disciplina, ma implica la capacità di lavorare su un contenuto in più lingue e a cavallo tra culture (pluriculturalismo). Permane, tuttavia, nella pratica didattica CLIL una concezione strutturalista della lingua, limitata rispetto agli obiettivi di lungo termine della metodologia. È convinzione di chi scrive che declinare la didattica CLIL basata sul genere costituisca uno sviluppo virtuoso della metodologia che può farsi davvero integrata e predisporsi a sviluppare un approccio socio-pragmatico ai contenuti in una lingua-cultura ‘altra’. Senza contare che creerebbe un allineamento ai riferimenti glottodidattici del QCER che dal 2000 rappresentano uno standard europeo condiviso. Proponendo testualità nella loro identità specifica (generi), che include fattori comunicativi legati alla audience cui sono rivolte, si presenta immediatamente il discorso come affordance (qui intesa come forma scritta che consente o favorisce, in base a proprie caratteristiche specifiche, un certo tipo di comunicazione e non altre) in cui una lingua-cultura è in coabitazione con una precisa comunità e presuppone meccanismi socio-pragmatici di disambiguazione che sarebbero altrimenti non accessibili. Il saggio presenta e discute un’esperienza di formazione rivolta a personale docente (corso CLIL 2021), nella quale il concetto di genere ha giocato un ruolo centrale nel presentare e guidare alla metodologia CLIL. In particolare, si intende riflettere sul potenziale e sulle criticità emerse adottando un genre-based approach per affrontare alcune implicazioni, tra potenziale e limiti, emerse o prevedibili nella preparazione degli/delle insegnanti alla metodologia CLIL.
Il genere testuale come motore del plurilinguismo nel CLIL
Laura Santini;Simone Torsani
2024-01-01
Abstract
CLIL can play an important role in enhancing multilingualism and international mobility. In order to efficiently integrate language and content in the learning process, multilingualism should not be conceived as using the foreign language as a vehicular tool rather by establishing a sound relationship between language and the typical discipline discourse(s) and genre(s). Such approach would imply the ability to work on content in several languages and across cultures (pluriculturalism). Currently, however, CLIL teaching is still mainly adopting a structuralist conception of language, which is a limited one as compared to the long-term goals of the CLIL methodology. It is the authors’s opinion that shifting CLIL teaching towards a genre-based approach could offer a virtuous development of the methodology and promote a truly integrated content-language framework within a ‘different’ language-culture that takes into account the socio-pragmatic aspects of communication in any text. Not to mention that it would represent a better match with the glottodidactic references of the CEFR that have been a shared European standard since 2000. By proposing textuality in its specific identity (genres), which includes communicative factors linked to the addressed audience, one immediately presents discourse as an affordance: a special form with peculiar features that affords and favours a particular kind of communication over others through a language-culture shaped by and shaping a specific community otherwise inaccessible. The essay presents and discusses a case study (CLIL course 2021): a teacher-training course in which the concept of gender played a central role in introducing and guiding into CLIL methodology. In particular, it is intended to reflect on both the positive potential and the critical issues that emerged from adopting a genre-based approach in order to address some of the implications, between advantages and disadvantages as emerged in the case study or those that can be expected in preparing teachers for CLIL methodology.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.