Conoscenze e opinioni degli studenti neofilologici sull’argomentazione
Neophilological Students’ knowledge and opinions on argumentation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the views of university learners in the Faculty of Neophilology on argumentative text. We are interested in their theoretical knowledge of argumentation and argumentative text genres, as well as their opinions on the importance of analysing and practising different text types during foreign language courses. Furthermore, in light of our teaching experience, we can see that the task of writing an argumentative text in a foreign language course (in our case, Italian) usually turns into an activity of purely listing arguments for and against a thesis. The arguments listed are mostly of little argumentative effectiveness because they are commonplace, widespread opinions repeated in the same kind of compositions during previous educational cycles. Using questionnaire administered to 33 Polish, Spanish, and Italian students, we observed their opinions and knowledge of argumentative discourse.

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