Il teatro per insegnare l'italiano

Abstract

In this chapter I discuss a project which involves the staging of a single act farce by Dario Fo entitled Non tutti i ladri vengono per nuocere as a key activity in a uni- versity level Italian language subject for students with high school Italian language and culture competency (roughly B1 in the CEFR). I describe the origins of using theatre in the teaching of Italian and discuss the desire to create an assessment task which goes beyond the classic two-dimensional read-research-write model of essays common to many English- speaking university language subjects. The resulting task both encompasses language and culture and also the development of real-world skills and competencies. Growing ..