L'insegnamento della lingua straniera nella scuola italiana (con particolare riferimento alla lingua tedesca)

Abstract

The teaching of foreign languages in Italian schools, with particular reference to German. As to the teaching of foreign languages, many changes have occurred in the Italian school system since the Sixties. Especially since the eighties efforts have been made - particularly thanks to different forms of experimentation - on the one hand to ensure the teaching of foreign languages in primary schools (later on in nursery schools as well), and on the other hand to expand such teaching in secondary schools. Above all, besides leading to a better understanding of the role of the teaching of foreign languages in the present educational system, the history of this evolution within the general development of the Italian school system can serve to estimate its possibilities with reference to the enormous challenge of school autonomy, as well as to more surely determine the main targets of a common European culture.