FORMULE DELL’ITALIANO ACCADEMICO: RILEVANZA EDUCATIVA E INDICAZIONI DIDATTICHE
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Nel contributo si discute la rilevanza educativa delle formule per l’italiano accademico. Considerando in particolare risultati e discussioni di recenti lavori inerenti alla descrizione e all’insegnamento del linguaggio formulare inglese, si danno alcune indicazioni per la didattica scolastica e universitaria dell’italiano accademico e si propongono relative domande di ricerca. Si offrono inoltre esempi delle formule prese in considerazione (sequenze ricorrenti, polirematiche e marcatori del discorso) estratti dal corpus del Dizionario dell’Italiano Accademico, di cui si spiega l’utilità per la didattica delle formule.
Formulas of academic Italian: educational relevance and teaching guidelines
This paper discusses the educational relevance of formulaic expressions in academic Italian. Considering in particular the results and discussions of recent works on the description and teaching of formulaic expressions in English, it provides some guidelines for teaching academic Italian in schools and universities and proposes related research questions. It also offers examples of the formulas considered (recurrent sequences, polirematic expressions and discourse markers) extracted from the corpus of the Dizionario dell’Italiano Accademico (Dictionary of Academic Italian), explaining their usefulness for teaching formulas.
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