Unha achega á aprendizaxe da lingua italiana polo estudantado universitario galego de nivel básico

Abstract

One of the most important transformations that has taken place in the field of linguistics since the establishment of the Bologna Reform, is the introduction of the communicative standpoint in language teaching and learning. This new perspective adds a wider and less theoretical vision of the linguistic approach, but, as a consequence of the greater role of the communicative standpoint, there is a certain inattention on the correctness aspect from the morphosyntax, lexical and semantic point of view; therefore, students have some grammatical problems that they would have solved easier in the old curriculum.

In the Galician university system this situation is reflected in a different way depending on the first language of the students; Spanish-speaking students find more problems than Galician-speaking students in the acquisition of Italian grammatical basics, in spite of the fact that in oral expression Galician is mostly influenced by Spanish nowadays. The aim of this article is to systematize advantages and obstacles that Galician students find in order to facilitate the work of Italian teachers and students in university degrees in Galicia. On the one hand, we will analyse the most usual morphosyntax and lexical-semantics difficulties ‒ mostly derived from the interference with Spanish ‒ that Galician degree students find with their first contact with the Italian language, and, furthermore we will highlight common aspects of the Galician and Italian languages that facilitate the acquisition of Italian using Galician as interlanguage.