Progetto speciale Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia

Più lingue e culture: innovare l’educazione linguistica per una azione comunicativa

integrata.

CONTRIBUTO

DELLA CLASSE 5BLS Liceo Scientifico Albert Einstein

sede associata ISIS della Bassa Friulana

Prof.ssa M. BELTRAMINI Prof.ssa L. GIOLO

OUR CONTRIBUTION

In-betweenness: a linguistic and cultural experience of encounter and learning.

Vivere fra culture: un’esperienza di approfondimento linguistico-culturale e di riflessione critica

A SHORT VIDEO offline

LEARNING STEPS

Step 1: Reading and ComprehensionStep 2: Structural analysis of the dramatic

monologueStep 3: Identifying intercultural themesStep 4: Learning and discovering the contextStep 5: Comparing the original novel and its Italiantranslation Step 6: Coming to a conclusionStep 7: Reflecting on our learning process

• Pakistan• The United States• The Religion of Islam• Symbols of Islam• Italian Poetry on 09/11• The Janissaries• Interview to the novelist at Udine’s Vicino Lontano• Podcast from RAI Letteratura• English Teacher’s resources• IRC Teacher’s Resources• The film by Mira Nair

THE CONTEXT

A CULTURAL ENCOUNTERTHROUGH

A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE

Samples of our structural analysis:

• Work 1: F. MISURI• Work 2: M. GRANZIERA• Work 3: A. ALIC' • Work 4: G. SCAINI

INTERCULTURAL THEMES• Different languages, different cultures

• The language of the encounter

• Fundamentalism/s

• Men meet women: modern and traditional life styles

• The worldwide nature of stereotypes

• Identity/multiple identities

• The difficulty of living in “in-betweenness"

• The relationship with the foreigner and the stranger

• Human nature when facing fear and tragedy

• Communication/s and Culture/s

INTERCULTURAL OBJECTIVES

• Comparing languages

• Providing interpretation/s for differences and similarities

• Learning about different cultural codes

• Recognizing similarities and dissimilarities in the Italian

translation of the novel

• Improving linguistic novel knowledge

• Learning about Christianity and Islam

• Comparing opinions about the novel

COMPARING QUOTATIONS RELEVANT TO INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

• Quotation 1: A. ALIC‘,F. MISURI, L. PALIAGA

• Quotation 2: C. Altobelli, G. Zanon

• Quotation 3: G. Scaini

SIMILARITIES AND DISSIMILARITIES

•Fear of uncertainty (nostalgia)

•Changez’s and the American man’s similar reaction in front of

the girls met in Lahore’s tea room

•Changez’s use of a formal language while Americans generally

communicate in a more informal style

•Different conceptions of the female gender

•Attitude towards history: Americans look at the future while

Changez highlights Pakistani attachment to the past

ASPECTS OF OUR REFLECTION • Multiplicity of cultures• Attitude and respect towards other cultures• Need to decenter from our single self to open to other

cultures• Need to widen our perspective on the world • Efforts to look the world without suspect or stereotype/s• To get awareness of our own identity/ies • Reinforce empathy towards the Other• Religion often used as an excuse for different interests

(economical, political and social)• Not everything is as it seems, what you see is not

necessarily the truth. • Reinforce tolerance and mutual understanding.

IN A NUTSHELL

"Signs are never innocent. Semiotics teaches us that." "Semi-what?" "Semiotics, the study of signs."

(David Lodge, Nice Work)

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT We have

•improved knowledge of the language•learnt new vocabulary•compared English and Italian culture through language•reflected on the symbolic value of proper names in literature/s in English•understood the importance of language strategies to convey meaning •learnt about the different concepts of time and space in different cultures•enjoyed the poetry-like nature of language in Eastern culture•known about the condition of in-betweenness one lives when he/she meets different cultures and people

THANK YOU FOR

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