The Competition “Recensiamo ItaliAMO” – About Rivalry that Encourages to Study Language and Explore Literature Cover Image

Konkurs „Recensiamo ItaliAMO” – o współzawodnictwie zachęcającym do nauki języka i poszukiwań literaturoznawczych
The Competition “Recensiamo ItaliAMO” – About Rivalry that Encourages to Study Language and Explore Literature

Author(s): Justyna Groblińska, Katarzyna Kowalik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Italian literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Italian language; Italian literature; book review; the didactics of foreign languages; philological studies
Summary/Abstract: The observations of creative forms of teaching foreign languages and literature included in this article are based on experiences gained thanks to organization of two editions of competition “Recensiamo ItaliAMO” at University of Łódź in 2018 and 2019. The competition invites students to create reviews of Italian literary works published after 2000. The first part presents didactic motivations that led us to propose such a form of optional activities to students and a description of the competition rules. The following analysis of the collected material allows to find out about students’ literary choices and to estimate their positive role in the didactic process and broadening of cultural skills. It provides also a possibility to observe such a negative phenomenon as neophilological students’ difficulties with composing a linguistically correct text or lack of capacity to use the book review’s genre rules. All these aspects provide precious knowledge that can be employed later in didactic work to plan lessons of practical language and literature.

  • Page Range: 129-141
  • Page Count: 13
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Language: Polish
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