The modern concept of European Adult Education is less and less about literacy courses or leisure time activities and more and more about support for immigrants, their integration into the host society or their professional (re)qualification. Particularly in the world of work, the language training of immigrants cannot be understood solely as a response to emergency situations related to communicative survival needs or even as a necessity to satisfy regulatory measures concerning the obtaining of a residence permit (cf. Benucci 2014, Benucci, Grosso, Monaci 2021). In the sphere of work, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and cultural factors can compromise the success of communicative exchanges: communicative competence in L2 is crucial not only for finding a job, but also for retaining it, improving one's social conditions and interacting with colleagues. With a 'disadvantaged' type of audience, however, it is necessary to adopt CAD, task-based and CLIL approaches and teaching methods: courses for foreign adults can be less rigidly conceived and implemented than school courses, with a closer link between theory - language learning and practice - learning a profession. In this contribution, an example of a transversal curriculum for sectoral-professional purposes is proposed, involving an assumption of the recognition, and the full right to be sufficient, of the partiality of skills and knowledge, as well as the adoption of a multilingual and pluricultural approach.

CLIL e professione per soggetti 'svantaggiati'

Benucci A
2023-01-01

Abstract

The modern concept of European Adult Education is less and less about literacy courses or leisure time activities and more and more about support for immigrants, their integration into the host society or their professional (re)qualification. Particularly in the world of work, the language training of immigrants cannot be understood solely as a response to emergency situations related to communicative survival needs or even as a necessity to satisfy regulatory measures concerning the obtaining of a residence permit (cf. Benucci 2014, Benucci, Grosso, Monaci 2021). In the sphere of work, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and cultural factors can compromise the success of communicative exchanges: communicative competence in L2 is crucial not only for finding a job, but also for retaining it, improving one's social conditions and interacting with colleagues. With a 'disadvantaged' type of audience, however, it is necessary to adopt CAD, task-based and CLIL approaches and teaching methods: courses for foreign adults can be less rigidly conceived and implemented than school courses, with a closer link between theory - language learning and practice - learning a profession. In this contribution, an example of a transversal curriculum for sectoral-professional purposes is proposed, involving an assumption of the recognition, and the full right to be sufficient, of the partiality of skills and knowledge, as well as the adoption of a multilingual and pluricultural approach.
2023
978-88-6969-684-8
CLIL, immigrant adults, employment, disadvantages, learning
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