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Testo scritto come l’input linguistico nella didattica dell’italiano LS
Written texts as linguistic input in the context of didactics of Italian as a foreign language

Author(s): Anna Kucharska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Cohesion; coherence; topics; comments; logical relations of text composition

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the impact of theoretical knowledge of discussed argument on the structure, cohesion and linguistic variety of essays written by students — learners of Italian. The comparative study of twelve essays entitled “Il Made in Italy” composed by six students (the first one written spontaneously without substantial preparation, the second one after reading a theoretical fragment of a scientific paper concerning the topic of the essay) has provided some interesting observations regarding the types of used topics and comments as well as various sorts of logical relations present in the texts.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 144-155
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Italian