On Migration and Illiteracy--Dealing With Texts in L2 Italian Initial-Literacy Classes

作     者：Castrenze Nigrelli 

作者机构：University of PalermoPalermoItaly 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第9卷第12期

页      码：1292-1298页

摘      要：Acquiring the language spoken in the host country is crucial for social inclusion of *** this perspective,illiteracy represents a social problem since it has repercussions on second-language acquisition/learning *** order to investigate the role of illiteracy in L2 Italian acquisition,the paper aims at analyzing the oral productions of L2 Italian learners with equal L1 but a different level of education,i.e.,low educated *** learners’productions are collected through semi-structured video *** the perspective of the conversational analysis,the interviews are transcribed and studied taking into account also non-verbal aspects of the oral *** learners belong to the specific category of the“unaccompanied foreign minors”.These minors are characterized by a particular sociolinguistic profile as they are often plurilinguals with a low,very low,or zero level of *** lack of previous schooling limits the competence in languages(including L1)to oral competence alone,and this has repercussions on second-language acquisition and,therefore,on social *** fact,a certain competence in writing and reading has an important impact on mental *** low or zero familiarity with written texts has inevitable consequences in the second-language acquisition process,in terms of lack of meta-textual and meta-linguistic *** the comparison of the interviews,the characteristics of the learners’interlanguages show that the learners deal with the non-inflectional initial phase of the second-language acquisition process:Their linguistic varieties are certainly basic ***,data show significant differences in the learners’performance depending on(il)literacy,which is the only parameter differentiating the learners’*** particular,literacy,namely a certain,albeit low,level of education and proficiency in writing skills,has positive repercussions on the performance in terms of a greater aw

主 题 词：illiteracy L2 Italian plurilingualism second-language learning/teaching textual competence 

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学类] 050201[050201] 05[文学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2019.12.009

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