Course Objectives

Padova-Tulane Xchange (wiki-odeo-skype)

Linguistic aims:

• To improve students’ receptive skills in L2 via informal communication between students in L1 in wiki and odeo.
• To improve students’ written production skills in L2 via formal production of contents in wiki.
• To develop students’ oral abilities in L2 via interviews in Skype.

Inter-cultural aims:

• To help students learn about various aspects of the culture of the language they are studying (Italian for Tulane students, English for Padova students), with particular reference to:

- Italian literature (1. Machiavelli 2. Ariosto 3. Goldoni, la commedia 4.Silvio Pellico, l'indipendenza italiana 5.Leopardi - Manzoni 6. Il futurismo, Pirandello 7.Ungaretti, Montale , Buzzati, Calvino 8. Morante, Moravia, Il conformista 9 Pasolini, film in particolare vedranno "il Vangelo secondo S.Matteo" e "La ricotta")

- aspects of student life in respective countries

• To raise students’ awareness of cultural differences.

Other aims:

• To develop students' competency in the use of wikis and collective authoring.
• To develop students' practical research skills using online information networks as they look for, find and share online resources.
• To develop students' reflective, critical and analytical thinking skills.
• To help students learn to write an encyclopedia entry based on Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy, with its requirement to present both (or the many) sides of an argument.
• To help students learn to negotiate meaning via the comment function of the wiki if and when conflict should arrive.

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