The School that Cares. Plurilingualism and multimodality for narration in Italian as a non-native language classes


Abstract:

The Italian language class can be a key space for newly arrived young migrants to reformulate their identity and build meaningful connections. A narrative, multimodal, and multilingual approach, aligned with active pedagogy, enables a holistic view of individuals—body, history, and languages. Enhancing co-verbal communication, mobilizing multilingual repertoires, and enriching the semiotic environment foster self-expression and inclusive teaching in super-diverse contexts. In this contribution a workshop conducted at the xxx association, where refugee students explored their linguistic biography through migration narratives, inspired by the live testimony of an Italian migrant to former Yugoslavia and Libya in the 1950s will be analysed as an example of good practice.