Course: Applied Linguistics

Descriptions: The purpose of this course is to provide students with advanced knowledge in the field of language teaching. The first module of the course provides an overview of the applications of research-based linguistic theory and methodology to language teaching, from the the perspective of the so called educational linguistics. The second module focuses on vocabulary learning and teaching; it will be shown how contemporary approaches to lexical semantics can help to construct more effective methods of teaching lexical phenomena like polysemy, homonymy, metaphors, idioms.

The course will be held in Italian. International students are invited to contact the professor by sending an email to f.casadei@unitus.it to get more infos.