Recensione: Firpo, Elena, & Sanfelici, Laura (2016). La visione eteroglossica del bilinguismo: spagnolo lingua d’origine e Italstudio. Modelli e prospettive tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia. Milano, Italia: Edizioni Universitarie Lettere Economia Diritto - Lingue Culture Mediazioni.

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https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.9.159

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ITALIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM, BILINGUALISM, HETEROGLOSSIC VISION, BILINGUAL EDUCATION, SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE

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This review reports on the contents of La Visione Eteroglossica del Bilinguismo: Spagnolo Lingua d’Origine e Italstudio (The Heteroglossic Vision of Bilingualism: Spanish as a First Language and the Study of Italian) by Elena Firpo and Laura Sanfelici. The book offers a rich overview of linguistic policies aimed at promoting bilingualism in North American and European educational contexts. Additionally, it details an experimental action research project, "LI.LO" (Lingua Italiana, Lingua d’Origine, or Italian Language, First Language), carried out from 2013 to 2015 at a school in Genoa with a considerable proportion of Spanish-speaking students. The main objective of this project was to reinforce the value of more inclusive bilingual instruction that incorporates Spanish (students’ first language) through teaching practices rooted in translanguaging.

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Andrea Scibetta, Università per Stranieri di Siena

Andrea Scibetta is a research fellow at the Università per Stranieri di Siena. He earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Didactics of Italian Language for Foreigners at the Università per Stranieri di Siena in 2017, with a dissertation focused on Chinese learners’ development of pragmatic skills in L2 Italian. His research interests include the teaching of L2 Italian to Chinese speakers, Chinese language pedagogy, strategies to support multilingualism (with a specific focus on Chinese) in Italian schools, and the development and implementation of inclusive educational practices in multilingual classes.

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2018-12-31

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Scibetta, A. (2018). Recensione: Firpo, Elena, & Sanfelici, Laura (2016). La visione eteroglossica del bilinguismo: spagnolo lingua d’origine e Italstudio. Modelli e prospettive tra gli Stati Uniti e l’Italia. Milano, Italia: Edizioni Universitarie Lettere Economia Diritto - Lingue Culture Mediazioni. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 5(2), 119–124. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.9.159

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