“Starting from tomorrow the lessons will be held online”. The challenges of a pandemic for the teaching of Italian as L2

This paper reports the results of an investigation into the teaching of L2 Italian in mainstream schools in the school year 2019/2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers’ perspective on the online teaching experience is explored through semi-structured interviews focusing on the challenges an...

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Main Authors: Valeria Colombo, Stefania Ferrari, Alice Moro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2021-07-01
Series:Italiano a scuola
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Online Access:https://italianoascuola.unibo.it/article/view/13040
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Summary:This paper reports the results of an investigation into the teaching of L2 Italian in mainstream schools in the school year 2019/2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers’ perspective on the online teaching experience is explored through semi-structured interviews focusing on the challenges and the didactic and organisa-tion strategies connected to distance teaching, conducted with 14 teachers of L2 Ital-ian working in three different municipalities of the Emilia Romagna Region.
ISSN:2704-8128