Il noticing comparativo: la grammatica a partire dall’output

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-3-86288-470-4
Verlag: LINCOM

Buch, Spanisch, Band 21, 212 Seiten

Reihe: LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching

Noticing can be understood as a student’s conscious attention towards the language being learnt. On the one hand, this attention can be focused on input, taking the form of an exploration of the text, where the student looks for its key forms. On the other, it may be turned towards output, with a view to verifying the accuracy and appropriateness of what is written or said by the student.

The first type of noticing is here termed explorative, while the latter is validatory.

Validatory noticing may take the form of a learner’s reflexion on his/her own output, or of a comparison between input and output. The former scenario involves the use of the monitor, while comparative noticing comes into play in the latter.

This essay will discuss comparative noticing.

Several activities involving comparative noticing are presented, with a special focus on reconstruction tasks and translation, within a communicative framework.

The discussion also illustrates a number of activities run during Italian as a Foreign Language classes held in some Brazilian universities.

Lastly, the topic as a whole is related to grammar teaching and sequencing issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Torresan, Paolo

Della Valle, Francesco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Paolo Torresan attained his PhD in Linguistics and Romance Philology at Ca’ Foscari University, in Venice. He has carried out research at several universities, such as: Complutense University of Madrid, Lancaster University, Rio de Janeiro State University and Santa Monica College. He is currently working with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and he is Editor-in-chief for the following journals: Officina.it and BollettinoItals.

Francesco Della Valle gained his B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics and Language teaching at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He taught Italian as a Foreign Language at the University of Porto, where he also attained his University Diploma in Education for Teachers of Portuguese as a Second Language. He completed his Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) under the University of Cambridge ESOL. He is currently teaching English at the San Marco vocational training school in Mestre, near Venice.