The issue of learning one or more cultures that might coexist within a foreign language and culture as complementing the process of acquisition of a foreign language has received considerable critical attention. This is ...

The very concept of canon has undergone several changes over the last decades, having first been criticized as a mere instrument of power. Yet, its importance on the literary scene remains unquestionable. Today, there ...

This paper will propose an analysis of false friends between English and Italian gestural idioms, that is cases where in the two languages a seemingly identical idiom exists that describes or refers to the same gesture ...

In the German literary production of the &'& and && century, ideas, metaphors and concepts drawn from algebra, analysis, geometry and physics played a starring role. From a didactic viewpoint, these literary texts neatly ...

This paper aims to present a different perspective on the didactics of French literature in social media. The objective of this didactic proposal is to direct the teaching of French literature towards a new educational horizon ...

The latest research in the field of language acquisition has proved extremely fruitful in giving interesting insights to foreign and second language teaching. Cognitive linguistics that focuses on the symbolic nature of ...

As well known, both in the case of acquiring an L! and, later, a foreign language (FL), many factors related to communicative, affective and relational contexts come into play. The existence in the historical-natural languages ...

The present paper, based on a French language course delivered to the students of “Management delle imprese internazionali” at the Parthenope University of Naples, aims to describe the educational path specifically created ...